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Nate Robinson had a successful kidney transplant Friday in Seattle. The former NBA guard, who played with the Celtics in 2009-10 and 2010-11, thanked donor Shane Cleveland on social media.

As with a human donor kidney, he’ll need to take medications for the rest of his life to keep his body from rejecting the organ. “But this transplant isn’t about me,” he said.