Ruben Douglas, Fortitudo Bologna’s championship hero, died at just 44 years old

Died at just 44 years old Ruben Douglas, Fortitudo Bologna’s Scudetto hero

Tremendous news shocks basketball, particularly the Bologna side of Fortitudo: è Ruben Douglas, the 2004 Scudetto hero, a true icon of Effe fans, died at just 44 years old.

Breaking the news è was his brother Ramon, with a phone call just to the fortitudino club, which l’la published it on its official website. The cause è was a sudden illness, which è was fatal to him a few days ago while he was in Costa Rica.

Born Oct. 30, 1979, in Pasadena, California, then a naturalized Panamanian, a guard, in his college career he played first with the Arizona Wildcats and then with the New Mexico Lobos. Having not been drifted the NBA, è came to play in Europe, at Panionios, Greece.

In 2004-2005 è he landed at Fortitudo Bologna and in the playoff final è he was decisive in game-4 played on June 16, 2005, scoring a triple at the end of the game, later validated on the instant replay, that made Effe win the game 76-65 and the series 3-1 against Olimpia Milano, the second and last scudetto in the club’s history.

The’adventure under the two towers è lasted only a year becauseé è moved to Dinamo Moscow, again only for a year, vncendo the Uleb Cup being named MVP of the finals. After three years at Valencia, in 2008-2009 he played again in Italy, in Rome.