We see them on TV. We read about them and the tabloids. They're famous. They're young.

They're athletic. They got it all right. Well, not this NBA star who ends up dead. Why?

I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and Sirius XM 111.

Take a listen to this at nearly seven feet tall. Merinson Wright was a giant in his hometown.

First as a local high school star, then at the University of Memphis and finally in the NBA with the Memphis Grizzlies.

Merinson was the hometown boy. It makes good. Former Memphis Police Director Tony Armstrong says

Wright's impact was big. You can imagine with all the lives that he had touched not only here in this city,

but all across the world. It was a phenomenal story. We are in a verdict watch in the case

of NBA star Lorenzen Wright who ends up dead. Lorenzen and NBA great. Joining me and all star

pound to break it down and put it back together again. First of all, we're now criminal defense attorney

joining us out of LA Troy Slayton. Bobby Chacon, former special agent FBI screenwriter on criminal

minds. Dr. Angela Arnold, you know her well. Psychiatrists joining us out of Atlanta and you can

find her at Angela Arnold MD dot com. Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor Forensic's Jackson State

University author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon. And now the star of an East show poisonous

liaisons on the True Crime Network and crime online dot com investigative reporter Levi Page,

Levi tell me about Lorenzen Wright's NBA career. So Nancy Lorenzen Wright grew up in Mississippi,

but when he was in high school, he moved to Memphis, Tennessee. And he was a breakout high school

basketball star. He went on to play for the University of Memphis. Then he went into the NBA and he

played 13 seasons in the NBA. He played for the LA Clippers, the Memphis Grizzlies, which is where

he became a star. He was beloved in Memphis. He played for the Atlanta Hawk, Sacramento Kings,

and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Yeah, yeah. I remember when he played for the Hawks. He was a superstar

at the time they needed the most. We were talking about a guy that comes from very, very humble

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