Andre Emmett, a former NBA and Texas Tech player, died Monday after being shot in the Dallas area. He was 37.

Dallas police said Emmett — who most recently played in Ice Cube‘s Big3 league — was killed after two men approached him while the former NBA shooting guard was sitting in his car in front of his home. One of the two suspects drew a gun a fight began and Emmett ultimately escaped but was shot. A person passing by saw Emmett and called 911. The former NBA star was then transported to a local hospital and was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.

While playing with Texas Tech in 2004, 6-foot-5 Emmett was named a Consensus first-team All-American after he averaged 20.6 points and 6.6 rebounds per game under head coach Bob Knight. During his time in the NBA, Emmet played for the Memphis Grizzlies from 2004 to 2005 and in 2012 had a brief stint with the then-New Jersey Nets. The Seattle SuperSonics selected Emmett as a second-round draft pick in 2004 and he was quickly traded to the Grizzlies.

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The Texas Tech Raiders, The Big3 league and several other organizations and people from around the college and pro basketball communities paid tribute to Emmett:

Rapper Ice Cube asserted this week that a Qatari man invested in his BIG3 basketball league as a way to target President Donald Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon.

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The 48-year-old actor and former NWA member and Jeff Kwatinetz, the co-CEO of BIG3, claim the Qatari man — reportedly named Ahmed al Rumaihi — tried to gain access to Bannon while he served as Trump’s chief strategist in 2017. The pair say the man was working with Qatar’s government.

Kwatinetz added that after Trump had fired Bannon in August 2017 and that the latter had resigned as executive chairman of far-right news website Breitbart, Qataris wanted to schedule a meeting with Bannon to offer to “underwrite all of his political efforts in return for his support.”

A $1.2 billion lawsuit filed by Ice Cube — whose real name is O’Shea Jackson — and his business partner last month against Qatari investors alleges that Al-Rumaihi bragged about bribing and striking deals with other American politicians including Michael Flynn, Trump’s first National Security Adviser who pleaded guilty in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian collusion.

Jackson and Kwatinetz claim the Qatari reneged on promises to invest large sums of money in their basketball league. The suit says Al-Rumaihi and another Qatari investor paid only $7.5 million of the $20.5 million they had vowed to invest in the league.

Rumaihi also reportedly asked about the Trump administration’s position on a blockade of Qatar, which was instituted by other Arab nations in June 2017 following allegations that the country’s government supported terrorism.

The basketball businessmen also accuse the Qataris of spending large sums of money on gambling and other inappropriate activities, including on foreign trips for BIG3 employees as a way to assert their influence in the league.

Porn star Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti questioned in a tweet on Sunday why Al-Rumaihi allegedly met with Flynn and Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen — who paid Daniels $130,000 in hush money — in Trump Tower in December 2016.