# Former NY Knick basketball player Michael Wright found murdered **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 14, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-ny-knick-basketball-player-michael-wright-found-murdered/737560 "2015-11-14T15:44:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-ny-knick-basketball-player-michael-wright-found-murdered/737560/1 "2015-11-14T15:44:37Z")
WARNING: The details are horrific, and the link is in a spoiler box [Link.](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/man-found-dead-suv-brooklyn-basketball-star-article-1.2431278) WARNING: Really bad story ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-ny-knick-basketball-player-michael-wright-found-murdered/737560/2 "2015-11-14T19:51:32Z")
Michael Wright was drafted by the Knicks but never played for them, or any other NBA team. What’s the deal with the spoiler box? There are no grisly pictures or descriptions in the linked article. The poor guy got whacked on the head with something. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-ny-knick-basketball-player-michael-wright-found-murdered/737560/3 "2015-11-14T23:26:00Z")
There’s got to more to this story. Getting murdered by a Grindr hookup? ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-ny-knick-basketball-player-michael-wright-found-murdered/737560/4 "2015-11-15T00:21:22Z")
What’s with all the “WARNING”? The details are not horrifying or graphic. All it says is his body was found in a car. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-ny-knick-basketball-player-michael-wright-found-murdered/737560/5 "2015-11-15T00:41:09Z")
Where are Goren and Eames when you need em? ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-ny-knick-basketball-player-michael-wright-found-murdered/737560/6 "2015-11-15T03:30:33Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > There’s got to more to this story. Getting murdered by a Grindr hookup? Hate crime? Homophobe hooks up with gay man and kills him? I too am a bit bemused about the “horrific” warning. Am I so jaded that I just don’t bat an eyelid at horror these days or were the details not all that horrific? ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-ny-knick-basketball-player-michael-wright-found-murdered/737560/7 "2015-11-15T14:24:10Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > Hate crime? **Homophobe** hooks up with gay man and kills him? I musta missed that part of the story. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-ny-knick-basketball-player-michael-wright-found-murdered/737560/8 "2015-11-15T21:08:22Z")
> [@Fleetwood](#): > > I musta missed that part of the story. It wasn’t in the story, it was speculation. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-ny-knick-basketball-player-michael-wright-found-murdered/737560/9 "2015-11-15T22:14:13Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > Hate crime? Homophobe hooks up with gay man and kills him? > > I too am a bit bemused about the “horrific” warning. Am I so jaded that I just don’t bat an eyelid at horror these days or were the details not all that horrific? They weren’t horrific. Depressing, yes, but that should apply to any murder. Someone must’ve had a case of the vapours.