Brent Darby (June 6, 1981 – December 6, 2011) was an American professional

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player. He played at the

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position.

College career

Darby played

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with the

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, between 1999 and 2003, and was a part of two

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champion teams. He averaged 9.6 points per game in his sophomore season, 12.8 points per game as a junior, and 18.3 points and 4.4 assists per game in his senior year, in 2002–03. At the end of his college career, he was ranked 25th on the school's career scoring list, with 1,368 points scored.

Professional career

After college, Darby played professional basketball internationally, from 2003 until 2009,''Detroit News: Former River Rouge basketball star Brent Darby dies at age 30
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), and he also spent several years in Italy ( Pepsi Juvecaserta Basket, Giorgio Tesi PT, Banco di Sardegna Sassari, S.S. Felice Scandone (Sidigas AV), Umana Reyer Venezia Mestre).

Personal life and death

Darby eventually had to stop playing basketball, as he battled a series of

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problems. Doctors implanted filters in Darby's body to break up clots before they reached his lungs, and he had a surgery to remove a large clot from his leg. He died in 2011.

References

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