As far as we can tell, former Blue Devil Shavlik Randolph has lived an admirable life to date but he has had some bad luck.
At Raleigh’s Broughton High, at Duke and as a professional athlete, Randolph has dealt with some really serious injuries and health issues which he details here.
Keep in mind this was a guy who was widely expected to be, at a minimum, a solid NBA player. He got there as a marginal player, but he had to overcome a lot just to do that.
He’s been playing in China and doing well there, but in 2019 his little brother Dexter was visiting and Shavlik came home to find him dead in his apartment.