It was one of those double-take moments Saturday afternoon, the kind you blink twice at while scrolling a Twitter feed without any warning of the brick wall ahead: Former Iowa State player and current New Orleans Pelican Bryce Dejean-Jones has died, the Dallas County coroner’s office confirms.
The mind wanders as each word sinks in, such terrible news about a player that before he attended Iowa State and realized his dream of making the NBA spent three years at UNLV, some of his time here good, some of it bad, a lot of it troubled.