What is Billy Knight (basketball, born 1979)?
{{for|the [[NBA All-Star Game|NBA All-Star]] born in 1952|Billy Knight}} [[File:William knight Hyogo.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Knight in March 2013]] '''William Price Knight''' (January 20, 1979 – July 8, 2018) was an American professional [[basketball]] player. He was born in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]]. His last professional stops were in Japan with [[San-en NeoPhoenix|Hamamatsu]], [[Osaka Evessa|Osaka]], [[Nishinomiya Storks|Hyogo]] and [[Yamagata Wyverns|Yamagata]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Nishinomiya Storks |url=https://www.storks.jp/news/detail/id=8570|title=ウィリアム・ナイト選手の訃報に接して|date=11 July 2018 |access-date=11 July 2018}}</ref> Knight helped the [[Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix]] to their first [[bj league]] title in 2009–10, when he was the league's third-leading scorer, averaging 19.6 points per game.<ref>{{cite news|last=Odeven|first=Ed|title=Knight still wonders why no team would give him shot|date=February 24, 2012|newspaper=The Japan Times|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2012/02/24/basketball/bj-league/knight-still-wonders-why-no-team-would-give-him-shot/|access-date=July 12, 2018|archive-date=July 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711191049/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2012/02/24/basketball/bj-league/knight-still-wonders-why-no-team-would-give-him-shot/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Knight abused an ex-girlfriend’s nine-year-old daughter and was arrested on June 13, 2018.<ref>{{cite web |last=TMZ Sports |url=http://amp.tmz.com/2018/07/11/billy-knight-sexual-abuse-child-9-year-old?__twitter_impression=true|title=UCLA'S BILLY KNIGHT ALLEGEDLY SEXUALLY ABUSED 9-YEAR-OLD BEFORE DEATH|date=11 July 2018 |access-date=12 July 2018}}</ref> He was found dead a month later on July 8, 2018 in [[Phoenix, Arizona]], aged 39.<ref>{{cite news|last1=West|first1=Jenna|title=Former UCLA Player Billy Knight Found Dead at 39|url=https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2018/07/10/billy-knight-death-ucla-bruins-player|access-date=July 11, 2018|work=[[Sports Illustrated]]|date=July 10, 2018}}</ref