Body of Ex-NBA Player Lorenzen Wright Is Found, Commercial Appeal Reports

The body of former National Basketball Association player Lorenzen Wright was found in a wooded area in southeast Memphis, Tennessee, the Commercial Appeal reported, citing a law enforcement official it didn’t identify.

The 34-year-old Wright had been missing since July 19, the day he had planned to return to Atlanta after visiting his six children in Memphis, the newspaper said. A Memphis homicide detective last night declined to comment when contacted by Bloomberg News, saying he wasn’t authorized to speak and the investigation was incomplete.

A police dispatcher in Germantown, Memphis, received a 911 call on Wright’s cell phone on the day he disappeared, the Commercial Appeal said. He heard several gunshots before the call ended and no one answered a returned call, the paper added.

Wright spent 13 seasons in the NBA after being drafted as the overall seventh pick by the Los Angeles Clippers in 1996. He also had stints with Atlanta, Memphis, Sacramento and Cleveland, averaging eight points and 6.4 rebounds in 778 career games.

To contact the reporter on this story: Nancy Kercheval in Washington at nkercheval@bloomberg.net

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