Tristan Jass, a popular basketball YouTuber, will undergo surgery for a brain tumor, he announced Saturday.
In a YouTube video, Jass, 25, said he’s experienced seizures in the past. Doctors found a small cyst in his brain in 2019. He showed a timeline of the health struggles he’s faced, documenting various doctor visits, conversations with family and other experiences.
After 6 years of annual MRI’s of my brain, the doctors have finally decided it is now time to remove the tumor to see exactly what it is. I can’t lie this is pretty scary but I’ve been mentally preparing for the past few weeks and I’m ready to go to battle. God gives his toughest… pic.twitter.com/Bv2g5GR4YS
— Tristan Jass (@TristanJass) December 6, 2025
“I can’t lie this is pretty scary but I’ve been mentally preparing for the past few weeks and I’m ready to go to battle,” Jass posted on X.
Jass said in the video that he’s undergone regular MRIs for six years to monitor a cyst on his brain, and his latest scan showed it now requires surgery.
“We found something that we haven’t seen before,” Jass said his doctors told him.
Jass, who has more than 5.6 million subscribers on YouTube, is from Wisconsin and received a Division I scholarship offer at Ottawa University in Arizona. He has posted five videos that have garnered more than 10 million views, and he’s challenged NBA players like James Harden, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Lonzo Ball.
Jass played in the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game. He often posts trick shots on his social media.
“We’re all going to go through things in life. It might not be the prettiest things, you know, you’re going to have horrible things, you’re going to have great things,” Jass said in the video. “You can go through anything and bounce back.”
