Boston native, college basketball standout dies following LA crash
19-year-old Terrence Clarke died following a car crash in the Los Angeles area on Thursday afternoon.
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Boston native, college basketball standout Terrence Clark dies following car crash in Los Angeles
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Updated: 10:48 PM EDT Apr 22, 2021
Kentucky's Terrence Clarke plays against Mississippi State in an NCAA college basketball game in the Southeastern Conference Tournament Thursday, March 11, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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LOS ANGELES —
A Massachusetts native who played college basketball for the University of Kentucky and recently declared himself eligible for the NBA Draft died Thursday evening in Los Angeles.
Nineteen-year-old Terrence Clarke died following a car crash in the Los Angeles Area on Thursday afternoon, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported. The news was first reported by WKYT.
Clarke was a Boston native, born in September 2001, played high school basketball at the Rivers School in Weston before finishing his high school career at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.
The shooting guard was considered to be one of the best in the 2020 class, courted by some of the top schools in college basketball, including Boston College, before committing to Kentucky.
Clarke was the first player from Boston to garner as much national attention as he received in more than a decade.
In an interview with the Boston Globe in 2019, Clarke said he spent a lot of his childhood at the Vine Street Community Center, considered a safe haven for him. "I’ve been in the middle of shootouts, I’ve seen it all," Clarke told the Boston Globe. "But I was like, 'If I stay in the gym, I can play basketball and have fun all day.'"
Boston Celtics head coach Brad Stevens briefly reacted to the reports following the Celtics game Thursday night.
"As I was walking down the hallway, I just heard this news about Terrence Clarke and not sure how much I'd wanna talk about the game when you consider it a Boston kid," Stevens said. "Even though I've never met him, my son looks up to him. It's hard to talk about a basketball game with even the idea that's floating out there and I pray that it's not true."
"Tell your people you love them everyday," the Celtics Jayson Tatum posted on social media after hearing the news. "Was so proud of you lil' bro. Wish we talked more! This one hurts. Rest easy King, never forgotten. Praying for the family."
Wojnarowski said Clarke’s mother was at his side when he died on Thursday afternoon.
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