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MW Basketball News: Former UNLV Star Bryce Dejean-Jones Fatally Shot

In some incredibly tragic news to add to the usually upbeat basketball news posts, the Associated Press has reported that former UNLV star and current NBA player Bryce Dejean-Jones was shot to death in an apartment in Dallas, Texas on Saturday. The New Orleans Pelicans guard was just 23 years old.

According to his agent Scott Nichols, Dejean-Jones in Dallas to visit his girlfriend and to celebrate his daughter's first birthday. After returning home on Saturday, Dejean-Jones went out for a walk, while his girlfriend went up to her fourth floor apartment. When Dejean-Jones arrived back at the apartment complex some time later, he approached the door of a unit on the third floor and began to knock on the door, unaware that he was at the wrong location.