Dave Portnoy may now not imagine the preliminary reaction to the massive bandage on his neck, the place he not too long ago had a cancerous mole got rid of.
All over the unedited installment of his “BFFs” podcast, the Barstool Sports activities founder, 47, used to be candid concerning the aftermath of his pores and skin most cancers analysis, by which he underwent a process that required a accumulation stitches at the left aspect of his neck, and famous it “looks like I got stabbed.”
“I was getting close to the point where I was going to cut this thing open and just start bleeding until somebody would be like ‘What is going on?’ I mean, this is a huge f–king scar and nobody’s saying anything… It looks like I got stabbed. How do I do any entire rundown and nobody — how do I do that video and nobody cares?” Portnoy stated.
“… I’ve been trying to shove it in people’s faces,” Portnoy stated. “I don’t want to be like, ‘Oh I have cancer feel bad for me.’ … If you’re going to get cancer that’s the best [one]. But I really wanted sympathy.”
In other places at the display, the Massachusetts local defined that he “didn’t even tell anyone I was doing it,” and the way it “was all part of my master plan.”
“Like God forbid the Celtics lost [Game 5 of the NBA Finals to the Mavericks] last night. I was just going to be like, ‘I have cancer I don’t want to talk about it,” he stated.
“However they received [106-88] and no one mentioned it. I did ‘The Rundown’ with Dan [Katz] and Kevin [Clancy] and so they didn’t point out it. It’s nearly like they know I’m going to name myself a most cancers survivor.
“It’s a real loose way because there is really obviously more serious cancer but I have the right to say I’m a cancer survivor.”
Portnoy added that co-host Brianna Chickenfry used to be the primary to invite about his scar.
“Skin cancer from laying in the sun all day with no sunscreen?” Chickenfry requested.
“Yup, that’s why I didn’t go to the Celtics game [the championship-clinching matchup in Boston on June 17],” Portnoy stated. “Deny, it’s now not horrifying. I cruel it’s, nevertheless it’s now not. I upload it to my listing. I had a center assault, most cancers, stung by way of bees and beat all of it.
“And it’s tough to complain. I lay in the sun. So it was a mole… I’m trying to stay on top of myself. So I went to a doctor, got a skin thing and they scrape it and one of them back as cancerous, so they have to take it out. It’s like 10 or 12 stitches in there… they cut it the f–k out.”
Portnoy needy the most cancers information on “The Dozen Trivia” on Wednesday evening.
Getting to social media, Portnoy additionally wrote in a put up on X: “I did have cancer. I beat it. It wasn’t the serious kind thank god. I can’t tell if Bosco thinks cancer is funny or not.”
