Basketball player Adreian Payne, who passed through Villeurbanne, with which he won the French Championship in 2019 and which had a hundred games in the NBA, died at the age of 31 in a shooting in Florida on Monday, police said. Orlando.
“At 1:37 a.m. on May 9, Orange County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a call from the 2500 block of Egret Shores Drive in Orlando, regarding a shooting. A man, identified as Adreian Payne, born February 19, 1991, was shot and pronounced dead in hospital,” the statement from local authorities posted on Twitter said.
Police added that the 29-year-old suspected shooter, who remained at the scene, was taken into custody for first-degree murder. No information has been released regarding the motive for this tragedy.
Former college basketball star, when he played for Michigan State, Adreian Payne, who played as a strong winger and pivot, was drafted in 2014, in 15th position by the Atlanta Hawks without imposing himself there.
His career has made him a globetrotter, then passing through Minnesota (2014-2017), Orlando (2018), Greece, Panathinaikos (2018 and 2019) with a return trip to China in the meantime (Nanjing) , before playing two seasons with Villeurbanne in Elite (2019-2020). Payne then joined the Turkish team of Ormanspor, then that, Lithuanian, of Utena, before returning to the United States where he was without a club.