<a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=6556998&campaign=rss&source=NBAHeadlines& service=bit.ly&source=espn"><img style="padding-left:10px;" align="right" border="0" style="border:none;" src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=6556998&campaign=rss&source=NBAHeadlines" height="49" width="41" /></a>Rick Welts was 40,000 feet in the air on a flight two hours from New York when, as he put it, "my life was changing below me."