Boynton Teen Dies Playing Basketball

BOYNTON, Okla. (AP) -- A 17-year-old boy who collapsed and died while playing basketball in Boynton is being identified by his family as Adrian Kody Lang.<br/><br/>The teen's uncle -- Martin Lang --

Monday, July 3rd 2006, 10:04 am

By: News On 6

BOYNTON, Okla. (AP) -- A 17-year-old boy who collapsed and died while playing basketball in Boynton is being identified by his family as Adrian Kody Lang.

The teen's uncle -- Martin Lang -- says Kody was playing a game of pickup basketball at the old Boynton High School gymnasium Saturday when he collapsed and died.

Lang says his nepehew told the other players his head was hurting shortly before he collapsed.

Kody -- who would have been a senior at Boynton this fall -- was taken to Muskogee Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

Martin Lang says Kody's parents were told by a doctor that Kody's heart was enlarged.

The boy's body was taken to the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's Office in Tulsa to determine an exact cause of death.