Wilbon recovering.

Washington Post columnist Michael Wilbon is at his Scottsdale, Arizona home, recovering from a minor heart attack earlier this week.

Wilbon is apparently feeling so well that he plans on playing golf this weekend, reports the Sports on My Mind blog. The angioplasty procedure performed on the Pardon the Interruption co-host apparently gave him an “energy surge” that resulted in his desire to return to work as early as today. He “was convinced by his doctors, wife, and friends to follow doctor?s orders and relax” until cleared to return.

As a result, Wilbon will not be on the air Sunday for ABC GMC NBA Countdown; Stuart Scott and Bill Walton will handle studio duties.

Wilbon left a comment on Roy S. Johnson‘s sports blog, writing in part “I can?t possibly thank everybody enough for their kind wishes and words of support the last couple of days.”

A heart attack, even a mild one, is nothing to treat cavalierly so I probably won?t work at all this week and a major lifestyle change is in order, starting yesterday. But I do feel better, as I sit and write from a Scottsdale hospital?I?m lucky it wasn?t much worse, and I?m grateful to Roy and so many of you for simply being there to pick a brotha up. My Uncle Cecil in Cleveland has a saying that captures how I feel about being surrounded by such wonderful people: ?You fill me so full.? You do, and it means more than I can put into words?thanks.