Adam Deans

Adam Deans (born 16 June 1988) is a 4.0 point wheelchair basketball player from Australia. He was part of the Rollers team that won the 2014 Incheon World Wheelchair Basketball Championship, and in 2016, he was selected for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Biography Adam Deans was born on 16 June 1988. He lives in Dianella, Western Australia. As a boy, he enjoyed playing sports, and dreamt of becoming an Australian Football League; but on 2 June 2005, his left knee gave way while he was walking down the stairs at school, and he fell. Paramedics initially thought that he had dislocated his knee; but it was soon determined that he had broken his leg, and he was taken to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, where he had surgery on it the next day. That a young, fit and healthy person could just break his leg like this seemed unlikely to the doctors at the hospital. Deans assured them that he had not been pushed, so a biopsy was ordered. On 28 June 2005, he was notified that he had been diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a cancerous tumour in his left femur. The doctors recommended chemotherapy to reduce the tumour in order to make it easier to amputate the leg. An MRI in July revealed that the chemotherapy had been ineffective, and the leg was amputated on 23 August 2005. After two weeks at Shenton Park Rehabilitation Hospital, he returned to school, and completed his Year 12 exams. That year he was selected for the U23 team (the Spinners) for the IWBF U23 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Paris, The Rollers were defeated by the United States, and won silver. He was one of five Rollers selected for their first Paralympics