Lorenzen Wright

 Lorenzen Vern-Gagne Wright (November 4, 1975 - July 19 2010) was an American professional basketball player for 13 seasons with the National Basketball Association. He was picked seventh overall in the 1996 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Clippers and played for the Atlanta Hawks, Memphis Grizzlies, Sacramento Kings, and Cleveland Cavaliers.Wright went missing on July 18 2010 and was found murdered 10 days later. In December 2017 his ex-wife Sherra Wright-Robinson was charged with facilitating his murder; a year and a half after, she pleaded guilty. Her accomplice, Billy Ray Turner, was convicted of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and attempted murder in March 2022 and received a life sentence in prison.Widespread coverage of his disappearance, along with his status as a popular Memphis person, resulted in the prosecution of his murder becoming a major topic of discussion in Memphis