Andre Emmett, a college basketball star at Texas Tech who rejuvenated his professional career in the Big3 league, was shot and killed in Dallas on Monday at 37.
Emmett was in his car near his house early Monday morning when he was approached by two men with a gun, the police said. After an altercation, he was shot. The suspects fled.
Emmett, a 6-foot-5 guard, played at Texas Tech for four years, three of them under Coach Bob Knight. He finished in 2004 as the program’s career leading scorer. “Andre was one of the greatest players to ever wear a Texas Tech uniform,” Kirby Hocutt, the university’s athletic director, said Monday.
A second-round draft pick in the N.B.A., Emmett never caught on in the league, although he played 14 total games with the Grizzlies and Nets. He played professionally in the N.B.A.’s developmental league, and made numerous overseas stops.
“I’ve been all over Europe,” he told The Fort Worth Star Telegram in 2018. “Played in South America. Puerto Rico. Had a playoff run in Mexico. And Lebanon. China. Korea.”
In 2018 he joined the Big 3, the three-on-three basketball league for veteran players. Playing for the 3’s Company team, he was among the league’s leading scorers for two seasons. “I was really excited to come back and play,” he told The Dallas Morning News. “People hear about what I’ve been doing overseas and now they get to see it.
This past year he tied for second in scoring with the former N.B.A. great Amar’e Stoudemire and behind only another N.B.A. star, Joe Johnson.
“His kindness towards others and easy-going demeanor made him a joy to be around,” the league said in a statement.
