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Updated 2/24/26 10:26 AM ——Former WNBA star Kara Braxton Cobb County police confirm death in Georgia crash USA Today. She is 43 years old.
According to a report obtained by the outlet, the accident occurred at approximately 5:13 p.m. on Saturday, February 21, when Braxton “failed to maintain lane” and “collided with the concrete median wall.”
Braxton, a resident of College Park, Ga., was taken to Marietta Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
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previous Women’s National Basketball League Star Kara Braxton have Died at 43the league confirmed on Sunday, February 22.
The cause of death has not yet been announced, but oregonian Braxton reportedly died in a car crash. US Weekly Working on confirmation.
The WNBA said in a statement from
Braxton is a Michigan native who played college basketball at the University of Georgia, where she was a member of the Bulldogs’ 2004 Elite Eight team. After multiple suspensions from the head coach Andy Landers In February 2004, she was kicked off the team.
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The Shock selected Braxton with the seventh overall pick in the 2005 WNBA draft, and she went on to win two championships with Detroit. (The Shock eventually moved to Tulsa and are now the Dallas Wings.)
her former teammates, Plinette Pearsonpay tribute to Braxton by Instagram. The two played together for the Shock and later the Liberty.
“Karebear…this still doesn’t feel real,” she wrote. “I keep reliving memories and conversations because a part of me wants to hear your voice again. The pain of losing you is beyond words.”
“We mourn the passing of former Liberty player Kara Braxton, whose presence and passion had a lasting impact on our organization and the women’s game,” the Liberty added in a statement to
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After retiring in 2014, Braxton worked for Nike in Oregon for a few years before moving to Atlanta.
Braxton’s husband dies Jarvis Jacksontheir son Jream and her son Jelani Thurman, whom she shares with a former NFL player. Odell Thurman.
Jelani is now a tight end Ohio State University football team. He posted multiple tributes to his mother via Instagram on Sunday, including one of her reaching over the railing to hug him at a Buckeye football game.
Braxton returns to Athens, Georgia in 2024 complete her degreeshe said Jelani inspired her to do it.
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“When he arrived at Ohio State, I just said, ‘It’s my turn,'” she said in a report by georgiadogs.com at the time. “I got him out the door and got him where he needed to be, so let me continue to accomplish what I wanted to accomplish.” I enrolled at the same time as Jelani enrolled, and here I am. “
She added: “It’s always been a goal of mine to come back and finish school and finish what I started. It’s a very exciting time for me right now.”
Landers, 73, said even though her college career is over, he has never been more proud of his former player than he was when she graduated.
“I love this kid,” Landers said. “I think it says a lot about Kara that she understands and appreciates the importance of her education and degree – both for herself and as a parent. It makes me feel good to know that she came back and finished what she started.”
