Howard Nathan Jr. (January 21, 1972 – July 28, 2019) was an American professional

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player. Born in

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, Nathan attended

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, Northeast Louisiana University (now

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) and

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. He played 5 games during the

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with the

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, averaging 2.6 points and 0.4 assists per game. Nathan appears in the 1994

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'' as an adversary of

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Commandos in the 1991 Illinois high school basketball championship tournament. Nathan's Manual High School (Peoria) ultimately won the game. Nathan was named Mr. Basketball of Illinois in 1991. Nathan was paralyzed after an allegedly drunk driver drove into his

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in Peoria on July 30, 2006. He died at the age of 47 in a Peoria hospital on July 28, 2019.Howard Nathan, the former DePaul star who was paralyzed after a car crash in 2006, dies at 47, according to a report
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