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January 12, 2000 — Remembering Bobby Phills

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Bobby Phills, 1969-2000 Bobby Phills Retired #13 Bobby Phills with the Cavs Over the years, the basketball world has been stunned by the deaths of players who were in the midst of promising or already great playing careers.

There was the 1986 cocaine overdose that killed Len Bias, the deaths  of New Jersey Nets star Drazen Petrovic in a car accident and Boston Celtic Reggie Lewis from a heart defect within weeks of each other in June 1993, and the 2000 auto accident that took Charlotte Hornets guard Bobby Phills.

While all of these deaths were shocking, Phills’ was especially so, considering its unfortunate and avoidable nature and that it occurred during the midst of a season.

Sadly, on this day nine years ago, Phills died in a speeding incident outside Charlotte Coliseum following a team shootaround. Scheduled to meet each other at a nearby restaurant, Phills and teammate David Wesley were each going more than 100 mph in separate vehicles when Phills lost control of his car and crashed head-on with another vehicle. More details surrounding Phills’ death can be reexamined in this article from The Rocky Mountain News.

The Hornets were scheduled to play the Chicago Bulls that night. The game would be canceled because of Phills’ death, and the Chicago Sun-Times would capture the overall horror of the situation with a front-page photo in the sports section showing Hornets coach Paul Silas and then-Bulls guard Chris Carr hugging and consoling in both shock and grief.

Phills, who was by all accounts a hard-working ballplayer and a good man, made a fatal mistake that day which unfortunatley cut short his career and more importantly his life.

Less than a month after his death, the Hornets would retire the #13 worn by Phills, who was only 30 years old.

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