{"id":117705,"date":"2026-05-03T04:57:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/referee-collapses-in-lnb-game-heroes-vs-reales-shock-in-la-vega\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T04:57:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:57:54","slug":"referee-collapses-in-lnb-game-heroes-vs-reales-shock-in-la-vega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/referee-collapses-in-lnb-game-heroes-vs-reales-shock-in-la-vega\/","title":{"rendered":"Referee collapses in LNB game: Heroes vs Reales, shock in La Vega"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Referee Erick Mej\u00eda Suffers Faint During LNB Match in La Vega<\/h2>\n<p>La Vega, Dominican Republic \u2013 A concerning incident shook the National Basketball League (LNB) match held this Friday at the Fernando Teruel sports complex. Dominican referee Erick Mej\u00eda collapsed while officiating the game.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred while Mej\u00eda was on the court, causing alarm among those present. Player Eloy Vargas, from H\u00e9roes de Moca, was one of the first to assist the referee before he completely fell.<\/p>\n<p>The situation caused moments of tension and concern for both players and those attending the sporting event.<\/p>\n<p>As of yet, no official medical report has been issued to determine the cause of the fainting. Although speculation has arisen about a possible heart attack, the relevant authorities have not confirmed this information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Referee Erick Mej\u00eda Suffers Faint During LNB Match in La Vega La Vega, Dominican Republic \u2013 A concerning incident shook the National Basketball League (LNB) match held this Friday at the Fernando Teruel sports complex. Dominican referee Erick Mej\u00eda collapsed while officiating the game. The incident occurred while Mej\u00eda was on the court, causing alarm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[12631,8525,1451,2500],"class_list":{"0":"post-117705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-erick-mejia","9":"tag-faint","10":"tag-lnb","11":"tag-referee"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}