{"id":73414,"date":"2026-05-12T13:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/memphis-grizzlies-forward-brandon-clarke-dies-at-29-he-was-the-gentlest-soul\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T13:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:55:40","slug":"memphis-grizzlies-forward-brandon-clarke-dies-at-29-he-was-the-gentlest-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/memphis-grizzlies-forward-brandon-clarke-dies-at-29-he-was-the-gentlest-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke dies at 29: \u2018He was the gentlest soul\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Player\u2019s agency confirms death on Tuesday<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Clarke was named to NBA All-Rookie team in 2020<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke has died at the age of 29, his sports agency has confirmed. A cause of death was not announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are beyond devastated by the passing of Brandon Clarke,\u201d Priority Sports said. \u201cHe was so loved by all of us here, and everyone whose life he touched. He was the gentlest soul who was the first to be there for all of his friends and family. Our hearts are so broken as we think about his mom, Whitney, his entire family and all of his friends. From high school to San Jose State to Gonzaga to the Grizzlies, Brandon impacted everyone who was part of his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/may\/12\/memphis-grizzlies-forward-brandon-clarke-dies-at-age-of-29-he-was-the-gentlest-soul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Player\u2019s agency confirms death on Tuesday Clarke was named to NBA All-Rookie team in 2020 Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke has died at the age of 29, his sports agency has confirmed. A cause of death was not announced. \u201cWe are beyond devastated by the passing of Brandon Clarke,\u201d Priority Sports said. \u201cHe was so &#8230; <a title=\"Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke dies at 29: \u2018He was the gentlest soul\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/memphis-grizzlies-forward-brandon-clarke-dies-at-29-he-was-the-gentlest-soul\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke dies at 29: \u2018He was the gentlest soul\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}