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Bryce Alexander Dejean-Jones (August 21, 1992 – May 28, 2016) was an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Iowa State University after stints with USC and UNLV, and played professionally for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Basketball has a considerably higher ratio of African-Americans than other sports. [4] Other deaths were caused by drug abuse. [5] Included are NBA players, WNBA players, college players, and players in other notable leagues who died before their retirement from basketball. Players who died following the conclusion of their career should not be ...
John Joseph Havlicek (often nicknamed Hondo) (/ ˈ h æ v l ɪ tʃ ɛ k / HAV-lih-chek; April 8, 1940 – April 25, 2019) [1] was an American professional basketball player who spent his entire career with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Dennis Wayne Johnson was born the eighth of sixteen children, to a social worker and a bricklayer who lived in Compton, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. [1] Originally a baseball fan and a Little Leaguer, [2] Johnson learned basketball from his father, but seemed to have neither the size nor the talent to compete with his peers: as a teenager at Dominguez High School, Johnson measured just ...
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A University of Mobile men’s basketball player has died, News 5 has learned. Kaiden Francis, a freshman student-athlete from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, collapsed on campus ...
Bill Russell, the NBA great who anchored a Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in 13 years — the last two as the first Black head coach in any major U.S. sport — and marched for ...
Malik Sealy (February 1, 1970 – May 20, 2000) was an American professional basketball player, active from 1992 until his death in an automobile accident at the age of 30. . Sealy played eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Indiana Pacers, Los Angeles Clippers, Detroit Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolv
NBA player and former Michigan State basketball star Adreian Payne was shot and killed on Monday, May 9, 2022. He was 31. Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins was killed in an auto ...