{"id":847545,"date":"2026-08-08T03:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847545\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:58:09","slug":"nba-player-brandon-clarkes-cause-of-death-was-heroin-cocaine-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847545\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Player Brandon Clarke&#8217;s Cause of Death Was Heroin, Cocaine Drugs \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New information about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1431960\/what-happened-to-brandon-clarke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Brandon Clarke<\/a>&#8216;s death has been shared.<\/p>\n<p>Almost three months after the veteran NBA player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1431916\/brandon-clarke-nba-player-for-memphis-grizzlies-dead-at-29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">was found dead on May 11<\/a> in his California home, authorities have released his cause of death and manner of death.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old died due to the effects of heroin and cocaine, according to an Aug. 7 press release from the County of Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner. His death was ruled an accident.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics arrived to his home in the San Fernando area of Los Angeles around 5 p.m. on May 11 and found Clarke &#8220;unresponsive in his bedroom,\u201d per the medical examiner.<\/p>\n<p>Responding paramedics pronounced his death 15 minutes after arriving.<\/p>\n<p>The athlete\u2014who had played for the Memphis Grizzlies for seven years\u2014was discovered with drug paraphernalia present, leading investigators to consider the possibility of an overdose, law enforcement told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/memphis-grizzlies-player-brandon-clarke-dies-at-29\/3889534\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">NBC Los Angeles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The medical examiner has since conducted an examination and determined that his death was indeed drug-related.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New information about Brandon Clarke&#8216;s death has been shared. Almost three months after the veteran NBA player was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-847545","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\/847545","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=847545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}