{"id":847283,"date":"2026-08-07T22:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847283\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:38:10","slug":"nba-player-brandon-clarkes-cause-of-death-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847283\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA player Brandon Clarke&#8217;s cause of death revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis forward Brandon Clarke died from effects of heroin and cocaine, authorities say<\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke died in May from the effects of heroin and cocaine, authorities said Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner said the 29-year-old basketball player&#8217;s death was accidental.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Clarke was found dead inside a home near Los Angeles on May 11. A person familiar with the terms of the investigation told The Associated Press after the Grizzlies announced Clarke&#8217;s passing that drug paraphernalia was found at the residence. The person had spoken on condition of anonymity because those details had not been released publicly.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Clarke was under contract to be with the Grizzlies through the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">About six weeks before he died, Clarke was arrested in Arkansas on charges of speeding, reckless driving and possessing a controlled substance. He was with Memphis for all seven of his pro seasons after finishing his college career at Gonzaga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memphis forward Brandon Clarke died from effects of heroin and cocaine, authorities say LOS ANGELES \u2014 Memphis Grizzlies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[418073,64,63,19437,91433,44025,74286,10966,72549,42895,1300,54581,418072,35402,45420,5851,590,418071,2950,161,97686,85],"class_list":["post-847283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-29-year-old-basketball-player","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-authority","tag-brandon-clarke","tag-cause","tag-cause-of-death","tag-charge","tag-clarke","tag-cocaine","tag-death","tag-heroin","tag-los-angeles-county-department","tag-may","tag-mcnd","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-nba","tag-nba-player-brandon-clarke","tag-person","tag-season","tag-speeding","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847283","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=847283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}