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Christian Braun of the Denver Nuggets and Tyler Ranzenberger and his dad, Bryan, experience a virtual-reality version of the Nuggets\u2019 victory parade as SuperMascot Rocky looks on. Photos by James Sawyer, UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tyler Ranzenberger and his dad took in the massive crowds lining Denver\u2019s streets from a vantage point atop a fire truck. There they were, in the Denver Nuggets\u2019 victory parade and hanging out with Christian Braun, no less \u2013 the Denver Nuggets\u2019 rising star<\/a> and Tyler\u2019s favorite player. Rocky<\/a>, the Nuggets SuperMascot, was right there, too.<\/p>\n

But the parade had been on June 15, and this was October 20, just four days before the Nuggets\u2019 title defense would commence at Ball Arena. The family wasn’t amid the 750,000 or so cheering fans at all.<\/p>\n

Rather, they sat in a staff conference room just outside the doors of the UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (UCH<\/a>) Surgical Trauma Intensive Care Unit. Tyler, 16, had spent two weeks in that STICU back in March, though he remembers little of it. The parade came via a virtual-reality headset of the sort UCHealth chemotherapy, burn, wound-care, and other patients regularly don for mental escape<\/a> during infusions and procedures.<\/p>\n

And yet: Right across the table, also wearing a VR headset, sat Christian Braun, all 6-foot-6 of him. Rocky, his plush noggin too big for a VR headset, sat between them.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow many games did you think it was going to take us to win the finals?\u201d Braun asked Tyler.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually predicted, like, five games,\u201d Tyler said. \u201cThere\u2019s no way they could\u2019ve made six\u201d \u2013 \u201cthey\u201d being the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n

\u201cOK, so, perfect,\u201d said Braun, whose game-three heroics<\/a> in particular had helped the Nuggets secure a 4-1 series victory. \u201cI think we were a matchup problem for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, taking advantage of the blindfolding nature of VR headsets, Cody Warren, Kroenke Sports & Entertainment security manager, quietly entered the room. In white-gloved hands, he lugged the supremely polished Larry O\u2019Brien Championship Trophy, which he placed on a high table. When Tyler and his dad, Bryan, removed the headsets, it shone before them.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you kidding me?\u201d Bryan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTake all the pictures you want \u2013 anything but touch it. No kisses, either,\u201d Warren said, to laughter.<\/p>\n

Young Nuggets fan fights for his life after losing his mother in tragic accident<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Tyler\u2019s first experience at UCH, one he little remembers, began on March 14. His mom, Christy, was driving him to a late afternoon dermatology appointment not far from the Ranzenbergers\u2019 home in southeast Aurora. They didn\u2019t make it.<\/p>\n

Back at the house, Byran had sat down for dinner with Tyler\u2019s older brothers, Jaden and Ethan, when a knock sounded through the front door. Bryan opened it to find a police officer. Christy and Tyler had been in an accident. They were now at UCH, and he should get up there as soon as he could.<\/p>\n

\"Rocky
Rocky looks on patiently, his head too big for a VR headset.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As Bryan and their sons drove north on Colorado E470, they passed the scene of a crash. Among the officers, first responders, and emergency vehicles rested the crumpled car Christy had been driving.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t look so good, Dad,\u201d one of the young men said.<\/p>\n

And it wasn\u2019t. They arrived at UCH to learn that Christy hadn\u2019t survived. UCHealth STICU Charge Nurse Jessica Kartz told them that Tyler was upstairs fighting for his life.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s go put our energy into helping him get better,\u201d she told them.<\/p>\n

Tyler had suffered a traumatic brain injury<\/a> called diffuse axonal shear<\/a> and was on a ventilator. With passing days, as his condition slowly improved, the UCHealth team learned more about him.<\/p>\n

Tyler was a basketball player. The then-sophomore at Eaglecrest High School<\/a> played guard and small forward for both his school and in AAU tournaments. They also learned that Tyler\u2019s favorite basketball player was Christian Braun. He admired not only Braun\u2019s prodigious athleticism but the intangibles he brings to the court: The hard work on defense. The energy. The commitment. The competitive drive. The Nuggets rookie had not become a three-time Kansas high school state champion and a 2022 NCAA champion with Kansas by chance.<\/p>\n

The UCHealth team reached out to the Nuggets organization. A care package soon arrived, and so did a video message from Braun to Tyler. Looking into a cell phone camera, Braun said:<\/p>\n

I just wanted to tell you to stay strong. We’re all fighting with you. We hope you get healthy soon. And that you get to watch all the games. So good luck in your recovery. Go Nuggets. <\/em><\/p>\n

Emma Patrick, a UCHealth licensed clinical social worker, played the video for Tyler on an iPad shortly before his discharge from UCH in late March. It meant a lot to him and to his father.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were going through the most traumatic thing I\u2019ve experienced in my life, obviously. But just a little thing like that made a big difference,\u201d Bryan said.<\/p>\n

Tyler transitioned to Craig Hospital<\/a>, where he spent a month doing inpatient neurorehabilitation. Throughout the NBA playoffs, he, his brothers, and his dad watched as Braun came off the bench to guard the likes of superstars Lebron James and Jimmy Butler. They relished each win. Tyler had hoped to go to the victory parade, but his body wasn\u2019t quite ready. So the parade would come to him.<\/p>\n

Nuggets’ victory amplified by Christian Braun’s compassion: \u2018It matters’<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Braun\u2019s visit marked Tyler\u2019s and Bryan\u2019s first time back at UCH since the weeks after the accident. Bryan brought a thank-you card for the staff who had helped his son so much. Despite the excitement of meeting Braun, the return to UCH evoked stark reminders of their losing Christy and uncertainty surrounding Tyler\u2019s fate in the days after the accident, Bryan said.<\/p>\n

\"Brian
Brian and Tyler Ranzenberger with Braun, Rocky, and the NBA championship trophy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cSo yeah, it\u2019s emotional,\u201d Bryan said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s a good and a bad. It\u2019s a weird mixture of emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Braun taking the time to do the video message for his son, much less to come out to UCH to meet Tyler personally, was clearly a big part of the good. For that matter, just having the Nuggets\u2019 games to look forward to during Tyler\u2019s recovery was important, too, Bryan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt matters,\u201d Bryan told Braun in the staff conference room, a Spalding basketball Braun had signed for Tyler serving as a centerpiece. \u201cWatching the Nuggets, watching you guys win it all, it did make a difference. It just makes you feel, you know, good, positive energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The three of them and Rocky posed for photos with the trophy, and then it was time for Braun to go. They\u2019d be seeing him again, if at a distance, at the opening game against the Los Angeles Lakers in a couple of days, thanks to tickets organized by UCHealth and the Nuggets.<\/p>\n

Braun\u2019s visit hadn\u2019t only been meaningful to Tyler and his dad.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo hear that we helped you through something is awesome,\u201d Braun said. \u201cWe do it for the fans, and we do it for, you know, moments like this. So to be able to talk to you guys in person obviously means a lot to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tyler Ranzenberger and his dad took in the massive crowds lining Denver\u2019s streets from a vantage point atop a fire truck. There they were, in the Denver Nuggets\u2019 victory parade and hanging out with Christian Braun, no less \u2013 the Denver Nuggets\u2019 rising star and Tyler\u2019s favorite player. 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