According to reports, former Detroit high school basketball star Tony Colbert has died of COVID-19 at the age of 50.
From FOX 2:
Tolbert was recently diagnosed with COVID-19 after not getting the vaccination, friends and family said. He died Monday.
“He didn’t think he could catch it. … I was telling him every day, ‘Get your shot, get your shot,’” Antoine Joubert, a friend and fellow Detroit basketball legend, told WDIV-TV. “He’d say, ‘I ain’t worried about it.’”
Tolbert played basketball at Michigan after an extraordinary career at St. Martin DePorres High School. He transferred to Detroit Mercy and played two seasons, leading the Titans in scoring both times.
Rest in peace, Tony.
