Published June 6, 2021, 4:31 PM
Galen Young during his stint with San Miguel Beer in the 2007 PBA Fiesta Conference.
Galen Young, a former PBA import who played for the Alaska Aces and San Miguel Beermen, died at the age of 45.
Media reports in the United States said that Young was the only fatality of the incident that saw a car crash into his mother’s house in Memphis, Tennessee.
Young made his PBA debut in the 2004 Fiesta Conference with the Aces before donning the Beermen jersey in the same conference three years later.
The 48th pick of the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1999 NBA Draft out of University of North Carolina made a brief return to Alaska in the 2009 Fiesta Conference.