Malik Sealy

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Malik Sealy (February 1, 1970 – May 20, 2000) was a professional basketball player from 1992 until his death in an automobile accident. Sealy played eight seasons in the NBA for the Indiana Pacers, the Los Angeles Clippers, the Detroit Pistons, and the Minnesota Timberwolves. A native of The Bronx, New York, he played college basketball at St. John's University and was drafted by the Indiana Pacers as the 14th pick in the first round of the 1992 NBA Draft.

Sealy was also an aspiring actor, and had a major part as the talented but selfish player 'Stacey Patton' in the 1996 motion picture Eddie starring Whoopi Goldberg. He also made appearances on TV shows such as The Sentinel and Diagnosis Murder.

Sealy was killed in St. Louis Park, Minnesota on May 20, 2000. He was driving home from a birthday celebration for teammate Kevin Garnett in downtown Minneapolis when he was struck by a pickup truck traveling the wrong way down the highway. The truck was driven by 43-year-old Souksangouane Phengsene who survived the accident with head and chest injuries. Phengsene was driving drunk; his blood alcohol content was .19, well above the legal limit in Minnesota. He was subsequently given a four-year prison term.

On October 18, 2006, ESPN reported that Phengsene had been charged with a new count of felony drunk driving.^[1]