| Billy Knight | |
| Position: | Shooting guard |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 6 |
| Weight Lb: | 209 |
| Birth Date: | 20 January 1979 |
| Birth Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. |
| Highschool: | Westchester (Los Angeles, California) |
| College: | UCLA (1997–2002） |
| Draft Year: | 2002 |
| Career Start: | 2002 |
| Career End: | 2016 |
| Years1: | 2002–2003 |
| Team1: | Akropol BBK |
| Years2: | 2003–2004 |
| Team2: | Entente Orléanaise 45 |
| Years3: | 2004–2005 |
| Team3: | Apollon Limassol |
| Years4: | 2005 |
| Team4: | JA Vichy |
| Years5: | 2005 |
| Team5: | Trotamundos B.B.C. |
| Years6: | 2005–2006 |
| Team6: | Al Rayyan |
| Years7: | 2006 |
| Team7: | Hollywood Fame |
| Years8: | 2006–2007 |
| Team8: | Santa Barbara Breakers |
| Years9: | 2007–2008 |
| Team9: | ESSM Le Portel |
| Years10: | ? |
| Team10: | Los Angeles Lightning |
| Years11: | 2008–2009 |
| Team11: | Boulazac Basket Dordogne |
| Years12: | 2009–2010 |
| Team12: | Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix |
| Years13: | 2010–2011 |
| Team13: | Osaka Evessa |
| Years14: | 2011–2015 |
| Team14: | Hyogo Storks |
| Years15: | 2015–2016 |
| Team15: | Yamagata Wyverns |
| Highlights: | |
William Price Knight (January 20, 1979 – July 8, 2018) was an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. His last professional stops were in Japan with Hamamatsu, Osaka, Hyogo and Yamagata.[1]
He attended high school at Westchester High in Los Angeles. As a sophomore, he was a reserve at center when Knight's father decided that his son's chances for an athletic scholarship to college rested on his jump-shooting skills. Knight was already tall, so his father set up dummies in their backyard court that he would be forced to shoot over.[2] As a senior, he had developed into one of the top jump shooters nationally and committed to play college basketball for the UCLA Bruins.[3]
Knight helped the Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix to their first bj league title in 2009–2010, when he was the league's third-leading scorer, averaging 19.6 points per game. He and teammate Wendell White formed a duo dubbed the "White-Knight Show".[4] In 2012–13, he helped lead the Hyogo Storks to their first Japan Basketball League (JBL2) championship.[5]
On June 13, 2018, Knight was arrested on six counts of molestation charges, including two counts of sexual conduct with a minor.[6] [7] He died by suicide through multiple blunt force injuries on July 8 after jumping from a building in Phoenix, Arizona,[8] shortly after posting a video to YouTube talking about his mental illness and encouraging others to seek help.[9] [10]
|-| align="left" | 2003–04| align="left" |Orléans| 9|| || 29.3|| .450|| .447|| .722|| 5.3|| 2.0|| 1.3|| 0.0|| 17.7|-| align="left" | 2003–04| align="left" |Akropol | 30|| || 30.1|| .539|| .500|| .836|| 7.4|| 2.1|| 1.4|| 0.1|| 28.9|-| align="left" | 2005–06| align="left" |Vichy| 12|| || 30.4|| .401|| .275|| .773|| 5.6|| 1.5|| 1.9|| 0.3|| 15.7|-| align="left" | 2007–08| align="left" |Portel| 31|| || 26.6|| .499|| .369|| .764|| 3.0|| 1.7|| 2.3|| 0.1|| 16.0|-| align="left" | 2008–09| align="left" |Boulazac | 19|| || 26.8|| .534|| .439|| .775|| 4.3|| 1.8|| 1.2|| 0.0|| 14.9|-| align="left" style="background-color:#afe6ba; border: 1px solid gray" | 2009–10†| align="left" | Hamamatsu| 47|| 29|| 26.2|| .413|| .395|| .795|| 5.4|| 2.0|| 1.3|| 0.3|| 19.6|-| align="left" | 2010–11| align="left" | Osaka| 50||37 || 25.0|| .457|| .357|| .797|| 7.3|| 2.0|| 1.3|| 0.3|| 17.1|-| align="left" | 2013–14| align="left" | Hyogo| 54|| 53|| 26.6|| .385|| .367|| .843|| 6.8|| 1.1|| 1.4|| 0.3|| 17.6|-| align="left" | 2014–15| align="left" | Hyogo| 54|| || 16.9|| .420|| .284|| .836|| 3.6|| 0.7|| 0.9|| 0.2|| 13.1|-| align="left" | 2015–16| align="left" | Yamagata| 36|| 9|| 21.9|| .470|| .392|| .847|| 8.9|| 1.2|| 1.1|| 0.6|| 21.1|-|}
|-|style="text-align:left;"|2010–11|style="text-align:left;"|Osaka| 4 || || 26.5|| .421 || .000 || .783 || 8.0 || 3.0 || 1.3 || 0.0 || 16.5|-
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 1997–98| style="text-align:left;"| UCLA|24 || || ||.444 ||.387 ||.727 || 0.9 ||0.1 || 0.2 ||0.0 || 2.8|-| style="text-align:left;"| 1998–99| style="text-align:left;"| UCLA| || || || || || || || || || |||-| style="text-align:left;"| 1999-00| style="text-align:left;"| UCLA| 28 || || || .453 || .397 || .656|| 2.1 ||0.7 || 0.5 || 0.0 || 5.4|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2000–01| style="text-align:left;"| UCLA| 32 || 18 || || .460 || .421 || .732|| 1.9 ||0.6 ||0.6 || 0.1 || 7.9|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2001–02| style="text-align:left;"| UCLA| 33 || 33 || 29.0 || .458 || .397 || .826|| 3.5 ||1.4 ||1.2 || 0.1 || 14.1|-|- class="sortbottom"! style="text-align:center;" colspan=2| Career
!117 ||51 || 29.0 ||.456 || .403 ||.774 || 2.2 ||0.7 || 0.7 ||0.1 || 8.0|-