height_ft death_date nationality article_title draftround birth_date career_start weight_lbs years death_place draft_year team image college name caption birth_place draft_team career_end position highschool height_in draftpick
6 25 april 2015 american mike phillips -lrb- basketball -rrb-
 3 24 march 1956 1979 235 1979 1985 -- 1987 1987 -- 1988 1988 -- 1989 1989 -- -- 1990 1980 1980 -- 1982 1982 -- 1985 madisonville , kentucky 1978 cb fórum valladolid cacaolat granollers cb juver murcia mollet fc barcelona cb santa coloma rcd español mike phillips -lrb- basketball -rrb- . jpg kentucky -lrb- 1974 -- 1978 -rrb- mike phillips phillips at an autograph signing in 2013 akron , ohio new jersey nets 1990 center manchester -lrb- new franklin , ohio -rrb- 10 45
mike phillips -lrb- basketball -rrb-

michael charles phillips -lrb- march 24 , 1956 -- april 25 , 2015 -rrb- was an american basketball player .
he played college basketball for the kentucky wildcats .
he was an all-conference performer in the southeastern conference -lrb- sec -rrb- , and helped kentucky win a national championship in 1978 .
phillips played professionally for eleven years in spain , including six years with liga acb .
mike phillips , a center from manchester high school in new franklin , ohio , played collegiately at the university of kentucky for coach joe b. hall .
he teamed with rick robey to form a duo known as the twin towers .
phillips played four years for the wildcats , earning all-sec honors in his sophomore -lrb- second team -rrb- , junior -lrb- second team -rrb- and senior years -lrb- third team -rrb- .
in his senior season , phillips averaged more than 10 points per game on the wildcats ' 1978 national championship team .
for his career , phillips finished 25th on the school 's career scoring list with 1,367 points -lrb- 11.4 per game -rrb- , and he also grabbed 755 rebounds -lrb- 6.3 per game -rrb- .
following graduation , phillips was drafted by the new jersey nets in the 1978 nba draft , but never played in the nba .
in 1979 , he found his way to spain where he had a fruitful career .
phillips played six years in spain 's top league -lrb- liga acb -rrb- , winning a league championship in 1981 with fc barcelona bàsquet .
for his acb career , phillips scored 4,423 points -lrb- 23.2 per game -rrb- and grabbed 1,765 rebounds -lrb- 9.2 per game -rrb- in his six seasons .
phillips died after falling down a flight of stairs at his madisonville , kentucky , home on april 25 , 2015 .
the 59-year-old phillips was home alone , and the hopkins county coroner 's investigation found no evidence of criminality in the event .
