Scott Fenton

NBL Player Infobox
name = Scott Fenton


nickname =
position = Guard
height = 190cm
weight = 83kg
team =
nationality = Australia
birth_date = birth date|1964|11|5|df=y
death_date = death date and age|1989|8|21|1964|11|5|df=y
birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales
death_place = Hillarys, Western Australia
first_nbl_game = 1982
last_nbl_game = 1989
junior_association =
college =
previous_clubs = Bankstown Bruins 1982-1984
Sydney Supersonics 1985-1987
Perth Wildcats 1988-89
championships =
career_highlights =

Scott Fenton (5 November 1964 - 21 August 1989) was a professional basketball player who played 140 games in the National Basketball League of Australia from 1982 until his death in 1989. [http://www.nblstats.com/players.php?playerid=10382 NBL Stats]

Fenton began his NBL career with the Bankstown Bruins in 1982 before moving to the Sydney Supersonics for the 1985 season. After two seasons with the Supersonics, Fenton joined the Perth Wildcats in 1988.

During the 1989 NBL season, Fenton and his fiancee Tina Christie (a player for Perth's female basketball team, the WAIS Breakers) were killed in a horrific car accident. Fenton and Christie were turning into Marmion Avenue in the Perth suburb of Hillarys when reportedly two cars racing down that street with no headlights on slammed into their car. Both Fenton and Christie died instantly. [Sgroi, D. (Producer). (2004). Perth Wildcats: Behind the Ball. [Motion Picture] . (Available from the Promote Media Group, Morley Commercial Centre, Cnr Boag Road & Russell Street, Morley, Western Australia)]

In his honour, his #14 jersey became the first jersey to be retired by the club and will not be used by any future player of the club. The jersey is one of six retired jerseys that are displayed at Challenge Stadium, the home of the Perth Wildcats.

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