Malik Sealy (February 1 1970 - May 20 2000) was an American professional basketball player from 1992 until his death in an automobile accident. Sealy played eight seasons in the NBA for the Indiana Pacers, Los Angeles Clippers, Detroit Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves. A native of The Bronx, New York, he played college basketball at St. John's University and was selected by the Indiana Pacers as the 14th overall pick of the 1992 NBA Draft.
Sealy was also an aspiring actor, and had a major part as the talented but selfish player 'Stacey Patton' in the 1996 motion picture Eddie starring Whoopi Goldberg. He also made appearances on TV shows such as The Sentinel and Diagnosis Murder. blank">Sealy dies in collision with pickup truck, May 22, 2000
Sealy was killed in _St. Louis Park, Minnesota on May 20, 2000. He was driving home from a birthday celebration for teammate Kevin Garnett in downtown Minneapolis when his sport utility vehicle was struck by a pickup truck traveling the wrong way down the highway. The truck was driven by 43-year-old Souksangouane Phengsene who survived the accident with head and chest injuries. Phengsene was driving drunk; his blood alcohol content was .19, well above the legal limit in Minnesota. He was subsequently given a four-year prison term. Neither accident victim was wearing a seatbelt. Phengsene's airbag deployed but Sealy's SUV did not have one.
On October 18, 2006, ESPN reported that Phengsene had been charged with a new count of felony drunk driving.
