{"id":809003,"date":"2026-08-11T10:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/809003\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T10:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:35:16","slug":"memphis-grizzlies-player-brandon-clarkes-cause-of-death-revealed-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/809003\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies Player Brandon Clarke&#8217;s Cause of Death Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260807_a8b48ea90a1c48d79a17e5b13725b5e9\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:fde1195f-e65b-4f2f-90c3-bfdb073ece4b\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/a8b48ea90a1c48d79a17e5b13725b5e9_md.jpg\" alt=\"brandon clarke getty  2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Memphis Grizzlies player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/brandon-clarke\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Clarke<\/a> cause of death has been revealed &#8230; TMZ Sports has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner determined Clarke&#8217;s cause of death was the combined effects of heroin and cocaine and ruled his death an accident.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Medical Examiner, Clarke was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/05\/12\/brandon-clarke-dead\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found unresponsive<\/a> in his bedroom around 5 PM on May 11. Paramedics responded and pronounced him dead at 5:15 PM. He was 29.<\/p>\n<p>His cause and manner of death were officially certified Friday.<\/p>\n<p>We broke the story &#8230; Clarke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/05\/12\/brandon-clarke-dead\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died May 11 <\/a>at just 29 years old, and his passing was being investigated as a possible overdose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies player Brandon Clarke cause of death has been revealed &#8230; TMZ Sports has learned. The Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,293,177,4070,6,67,66,83,2228],"class_list":["post-809003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-memphis-grizzlies","tag-basketball","tag-grizzlies","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-memphisgrizzlies","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117076434993538595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809003","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=809003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}