Comedian and actor Tracy Morgan is “doing okay” after he got visibly sick at an NBA game in New York on Monday night and left in a wheelchair.
The “Saturday Night Live” and “30 Rock” star vomited during the game between the New York Knicks and Miami Heat at Madison Square Garden. Morgan, 56, was then taken away in a wheelchair while holding a towel over his face.
The incident delayed the game for about 10 minutes to allow the area to be cleaned before the game resumed.
Morgan took to social media Tuesday morning and assured everyone he was okay, and that he simply had food poisoning.
“Thank you for all your concern! I’m doing ok now and doctors say it was food poisoning,” Morgan said in the Instagram post. “Appreciate my MSG family for taking such good care of me and I need to shout out the crew that had to clean that up. Appreciate you!”
Morgan has diabetes and underwent a kidney transplant back in 2010. The New York native also suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2014 during a deadly six-vehicle car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike.
The Knicks went on to beat the Heat, 116-95. In classic Tracy Morgan fashion, he turned his incident into a joke about the win.
“More importantly, the Knicks are now 1-0 when I throw up on the court,” Morgan said on Instagram. “So maybe I’ll have to break it out again in the playoffs.”
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