MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A former NBA participant was shot and killed close to Orlando.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office mentioned deputies responded to a capturing at 1:34 a.m. Monday when Adreian Payne was recognized and brought to a hospital the place he was pronounced lifeless.
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Lawrence Dority, 29, was current on the scene, based on the Sheriff’s Office. He was arrested on a first-degree homicide warrant after murder detectives interviewed him.
Payne performed in 107 NBA video games, averaging 4 factors and three rebounds, over 4 seasons with Atlanta, Minnesota and Orlando. The Hawks drafted him No. 15 general in 2014, traded him to the Timberwolves, and he averaged 6.7 factors and 5.1 rebounds as a doubtlessly promising rookie.
The Magic waived the 6-foot-10 ahead in January, 2018, after he was a part of an ESPN report that detailed sexual assault allegations in opposition to former basketball and soccer gamers on the college.
Payne performed professionally earlier this 12 months for Juventus in Lithuania. He additionally performed in Turkey, France, Greece and China.
Payne, who’s from Dayton, Ohio, began in 94 of 138 video games over 4 seasons for Hall of Fame coach Tom Izzo at Michigan State. He averaged 16.4 factors and seven.3 rebounds as a senior throughout the 2013-14 season.
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Former school teammate Brandon Wood mentioned he had saved in contact with Payne, talking with him as not too long ago as final month about his plans to begin a non-fungible token.
“He was looking to start an NFT tied to the Spartans,” Wood mentioned in a phone interview. “I’ll never forget the good times I had with him and Draymond (Green) when we were roommates. If you ever spent time around AP, you understood that he had a really big heart and he cared about people.”
Michigan State nice Magic Johnson remembered Payne with a publish on social media. “Our prayers and thoughts are with his family and Spartan Nation! Adreian will be sorely missed,” Johnson wrote on Twitter.
While in school, Payne befriended 8-year-old, cancer-stricken Lacey Holsworth and spoke at her memorial ceremony in April, 2014.
“I’ve had my moments when I’ve been mad at AP because he didn’t do something right,” Izzo mentioned in a 2014 interview with the Big Ten Network. “I’ve been happy with him, I’ve been proud of him, I’ve been disappointed. All the things that go on in coaching. But until the day I die, I’ll never forget those couple of scenes that I was privileged to be part of thanks to him.”
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