Lorenzen Wright

Lorenzen VernGagne Wright November 4 1975 July 19 2010 ht 611 was an American professional basketball player for thirteen seasons in the National Basketball Association NBA He was drafted seventh overall in the 1996 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Clippers and also played for the Atlanta Hawks Memphis Grizzlies Sacramento Kings and Cleveland Cavalier He held career averages of 80 points and 64 rebounds per game playing in 778 793 including playoffs NBA games over 13 seasons He and his exwife Sherra divorced in January 2010 they had 7 children one of whom passed as an infant from SIDS He founded the Sierra Simone Wright Scholarship Fund after the death of his infant daughter in March 2003 He went missing on July 18 2010 and was found shot to death ten days later in a wooded area In December 2017 his exwife Sherra WrightRobinson was charged with facilitating his murder a year and a half later she pleaded guilty Her friend Billy Ray Turner was convicted of firstdegree murder conspiracy to commit firstdegree murder and attempted firstdegree murder in March 2022 receiving a sentence of life imprisonment From Wikipedia