{"id":666759,"date":"2026-05-12T20:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/666759\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:56:23","slug":"brandon-clarke-memphis-grizzlies-forward-dies-at-the-age-of-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/666759\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Clarke: Memphis Grizzlies forward dies at the age of 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clarke was born in Vancouver and was a dual citizen of Canada and the USA, having moved with his family to Phoenix when he was three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After playing college basketball at San Jose State and then Gonzaga, he was drafted by the Oklahoma City Thunder and traded to the Grizzlies soon after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His only two games this season were in December, although he travelled to the UK in January for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cn9z7g5wz47o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grizzlies&#8217; win over the Orlando Magic in London.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was so loved by all of us here and everyone whose life he touched,&#8221; read a statement by his agency, Priority Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was the gentlest soul who was the first to be there for all of his friends and family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NBA commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement: &#8220;As one of the longest-tenured members of the Grizzlies, Brandon was a beloved team-mate and leader who played the game with enormous passion and grit.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clarke was born in Vancouver and was a dual citizen of Canada and the USA, having moved with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-666759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}