Former NBA champion Scot Pollard rings the bell and dances as he leaves Nashville hospital after recovering from a heart transplant nearly two weeks ago

Former NBA star Scot Pollard leaves a Nashville hospital after undergoing a heart transplant about two weeks ago.

Pollard celebrated his recovery by walking down the hospital hallway alone, without any assistance, as staff applauded him.

He ended it by ringing a bell and shouting, “I’m leaving!” in a video posted to Twitter by his wife Dawn.

Pollard, who won an NBA championship with the Celtics in 2007-08, needed a new heart because of damage from a virus he contracted in 2021.

The 49-year-old revealed earlier this year that he needed a new heart due to a genetic problem caused by that flu-like virus. He was successfully operated on February 16.

Pollard was back on his feet just a day after undergoing a heart transplant

“Look who’s awake and feeling good!” Pollard’s wife Dawn wrote after he woke up

A day later, his wife Dawn revealed that Pollard woke up on the morning of the 17th and that the former basketball player was walking again by evening.

In footage shared at the time, the 6-foot-2 Pollard could be seen moving around the hospital with the help of a walker, dozens of wires and IV drips trailing behind him.

‘We have a walker! He continues to shock us all with his power,” Dawn Pollard wrote alongside the video.

A day after the operation, Dawn had released images of him standing after the operation. She also posted a photo of Pollard waking up from surgery.

“Look who’s awake and feeling good!” she wrote. “Early this morning the breathing tube came out and he started joking and singing, ‘I left my heart in San Fran-Nashville.’

The Pollard virus likely caused a genetic condition that he has known about since it killed his father at age 54, when Scot was 16. He underwent surgery after making his search for a donor public last month.

Pollard and his wife Dawn shared an intimate moment before his heart transplant

Pollard played one season with the Celtics in 2007-08 and won the NBA championship

‘The operation went well and I’m told the heart is big, strong and fits perfectly!’ Dawn said Friday. ‘Now on to the crucial part of the recovery.

“Thank you to everyone for the continued prayers and support, but especially a big thank you to the donor, our hero.”

Before the procedure, Dawn shared intimate photos of her shaving her husband’s head and beard before the transplant. She asked her followers to pray for her 6-foot-4, 260-pound husband.

Pollard’s size complicated efforts to find a donor with a heart big enough to fit inside his body.