NBA player Lorenzen Wright Goes Missing

NBAplayer Lorenzen Wright, a 13-season NBA veteran whose played for theL.A. Clippers, the Grizzles and ATL Hawks, has been missing for over aweek and police don't have any clues. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the 34-year-old NBA vet has been missing since July 18 and this family have filed a missing persons report. Police tell the paper that Wright flew to Atlanta to his house inSmyrna. From there, a friend then picked him up to drive him to hisex-wife's house in Collierville, Tennessee to visit his kids. While there, Wright left while his ex-wife was asleep at 2 a.m. That's where the story stops for now. Police assume he was picked up by someone, but his ex-wife doesn't know who. Lt. Norm Dixon of the Collierville police said that was the last he was seen, but Wright's sister Savia Archie told the Memphis Commercial Appeal he was last seen the following morning at a Memphis barbershop. "There is nothing on his phone records, no bank transactions, hisvehicles are still at his house in Smyrna," Dixon said. "It's like heliterally dropped off the face of the earth." At press time, police do not suspect foul play. "There's just no information to make us draw that conclusion," Dixon said. His family, however, do suspect foul play. They say that if he didjust go somewhere, someone in the family would be able to get a hold ofhim. Wright's mother, Deborah Marion, told WREGthat his six kids are taking the disappearance hard, especially his13-year old daughter, who she says would talk to her father everyday. "The 13-year old is taking it worse than anybody. He always callsher and he always answers her calls and she doesn't understand why he'snot calling, why he isn't answering her calls." Wright played college basketball at the University of Memphis. In1996, he was drafted #7 overall by the L.A. Clippers. Since then, he'sbounced around the league, playing for the Atlanta Hawks, the MemphisGrizzles, the Sacramento Kings and most recently, the ClevelandCavaliers. By Randall Stevens