{"id":732619,"date":"2026-05-12T18:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/732619\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T18:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:57:21","slug":"memphis-grizzlies-brandon-clarke-dies-at-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/732619\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies\u2019 Brandon Clarke dies at 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:NBC Universal;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcuniversal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"NBC Universal\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"152\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2020-11\/2113dc10-2b80-11eb-beee-f5846c4f24e2.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Tue, May 12, 2026 at 6:23 PM UTC<img alt=\"Brandon Clarke stands with his hands on his hips wearing a light blue Grizzlies jersey (Nathaniel S. Butler \/ NBAE via Getty Images file)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"651\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_nbc_universal_184\/9455ac40d2421245efcf9048d765ea0e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Brandon Clarke of the Memphis Grizzlies. (Nathaniel S. Butler \/ NBAE via Getty Images file)<\/p>\n<p> (Nathaniel S. Butler)<\/p>\n<p>Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke has died, the team announced in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He was 29. The statement did not say how Clarke died.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke was drafted by the Grizzlies in the first round of the 2019 NBA draft and spent his entire career with the team. After undergoing knee surgery last fall, he appeared in only two games during the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are heartbroken by the tragic loss of Brandon Clarke,\u201d the Grizzlies said in a statement. \u201cBrandon was an outstanding teammate and an even better person whose impact on the organization and the greater Memphis community will not be forgotten. We express our deepest condolences to his family and loved ones during this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tue, May 12, 2026 at 6:23 PM UTC Brandon Clarke of the Memphis Grizzlies. (Nathaniel S. Butler \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,2710,177,90812,6,478,470,4073,4072,675,181],"class_list":["post-732619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-basketball","tag-brandon-clarke","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-nathaniel-s-butler","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-neworleans","tag-neworleanspelicans","tag-pelicans","tag-the-grizzlies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116563138579537209","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}