MANHATTAN (CN) — When every second mattered, a rising basketball star received no life-saving intervention after his heart suddenly stopped in the final minute of the last game of the season. Two months after Zeke Upshaw’s tragic passing, the mother of the late 26-year-old now wants a federal judge to hold the NBA liable.

Zeke played in Michigan, and his mother lives in Nevada, but Jewel Upshaw filed her suit in New York on Wednesday because the NBA has its headquarters there. Neither the NBA nor the Detroit Pistons have returned requests for comment.

Represented by the firm Hilliard Martinez, in Corpus Christie, Texas, Upshaw accuses the league of failing to address decades of documentation about the risk of young NBA stars dying suddenly from cardiac events.

“The NBA’s policy isHofstra University, “where he took over as the star and captain of the team,” according to the complaint.

In addition to the NBA and the Pistons, Upshaw takes aim at the SSJ Group, a Pistons subsidiary that owns the Grand Rapids Drive, and the Deltaplex Arena. She is represented by Hilliard Martinez attorney Robert Hilliard and by the firm Ben Crump Law in Tallahassee, Florida.