More than four months after he collapsed during a high school basketball game, Zach Gabbard is finally returning home on Friday.

Gabbard, 17, has been in a transitional rehab unit at Perham Hospital since early April, and his family said Wednesday Gabbard will be allowed to go home this week.

The family reported on Gabbard’s CaringBridge website that Gabbard is able to run on a treadmill for short amounts of time and he’s practicing his basketball skills again.

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