CLEVELAND — The video has received more than 30,000 likes: A 12-year-old boy standing at center court at Rocket Arena ringing a bell as 19,432 fans rise to their feet. Players stop, coaches watch, strangers cry.

The NBA shared it; people around the world celebrated Chaife Jackson's victory over cancer.

But getting to that moment took more than a year of fighting.

From Guam to Cleveland

Chaife and his mom Amy moved to Cleveland from Guam in July 2024. They came for a fresh start, to be closer to family.

"We came here thinking he had pneumonia," Amy told me.

It wasn't pneumonia.

At Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, doctors discovered a mass. Chaife was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, a rare bone cancer.

"When he first got diagnosed, the mass had pushed his heart all the way to

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