Billy Knight (basketball, born 1979)

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 Hamamatsu, Osaka, Hyogo and Yamagata. 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.
Knight abused an ex-girlfriend’s nine-year-old daughter and was arrested on June 13, 2018. He was found dead a month later on July 8, 2018 in Phoenix, Arizona, aged 39.