Sealy’s Impact Still Felt 12 Years Later

By: Jaden Daly (A Daly Dose of Hoops)

On this day twelve years ago, a piece of basketball stardom was prematurely taken from this world when Malik Sealy, an NBA journeyman who had just wrapped up his second season with the Minnesota Timberwolves and eighth overall in the professional ranks, was tragically killed in a car accident outside Minneapolis.  Sealy had been driving home from the 24th birthday celebration of teammate Kevin Garnett, who wore No. 21 with the Timberwolves to honor Sealy; who himself had worn that number both in his earlier years in the pros and in the collegiate ranks at St. John’s University in Queens, where he still ranks to this day as the Red Storm’s second-leading all-time scorer behind Hall of Famer Chris Mullin.  The Bronx native is still regarded as one of the greatest players to ever don the red and white, as he received the school’s basketball legacy honors after his death; and his life and times are still celebrated on campus, where one of his NBA jerseys and several media clippings hang in the Johnnies’ Taffner Field House practice facility…

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