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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Boston Celtics head coach Brad Stevens missed Thursday\u2019s game at the Chicago Bulls to visit a former player battling cancer, the team announced.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Andrew Smith, who played for Stevens at Butler from 2009\u201313, was readmitted to the hospital Wednesday. He has been fighting the disease for the last two years.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stevens flew to Indiana to see Smith at the hospital.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Smith\u2019s family announced the downturn in his condition on social media Wednesday. His wife posted a message asking for prayer on Facebook and Twitter:\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CPlease pray. Pray so very hard. We need a miracle &amp;amp; Andrew asked me to have you all rally with us in prayer in this moment.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Open Floor podcast: Celtics coach Brad Stevens on coaching in the NBA&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Smith was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma in January 2014.\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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