NBA player Lorenzen Wright, a 13-season NBA veteran whose played for the L.A. Clippers, the Grizzles and ATL Hawks, has been missing for over a week and police don't have any clues.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the 34-year-old NBA vet has been missing since July 18 and this family have filed a missing persons report.
Police tell the paper that Wright flew to Atlanta to his house in Smyrna. From there, a friend then picked him up to drive him to his ex-wife's house in Collierville, Tennessee to visit his kids.
While there, Wright left while his ex-wife was asleep at 2 a.m. That's where the story stops for now.
Police assume he was picked up by someone, but his ex-wife doesn't know who.
Lt. Norm Dixon of the Collierville police said that was the last he was seen, but Wright's sister Savia Archie told the Memphis Commercial Appeal he was last seen the following morning at a Memphis barbershop.
"There is nothing on his phone records, no bank transactions, his vehicles are still at his house in Smyrna," Dixon said. "It's like he literally dropped off the face of the earth."
At press time, police do not suspect foul play.
"There's just no information to make us draw that conclusion," Dixon said.
His family, however, do suspect foul play. They say that if he did just go somewhere, someone in the family would be able to get a hold of him.
Wright's mother, Deborah Marion, told WREG that his six kids are taking the disappearance hard, especially his 13-year old daughter, who she says would talk to her father everyday.
"The 13-year old is taking it worse than anybody. He always calls her and he always answers her calls and she doesn't understand why he's not calling, why he isn't answering her calls."
Wright played college basketball at the University of Memphis. In 1996, he was drafted #7 overall by the L.A. Clippers. Since then, he's bounced around the league, playing for the Atlanta Hawks, the Memphis Grizzles, the Sacramento Kings and most recently, the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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