Kim Perrot

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Kim Perrot

Kim Perrot (January 18, 1967 — August 19, 1999), was an American

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basketball

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player. She played in the WNBA

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for the Houston Comets

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A guard who attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

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(now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette), Perrot was the regular point guard for the Comets, helping them to win WNBA championships in 1997 and 1998. Her best friend was Comets star Cynthia Cooper

Cynthia Cooper (basketball)

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Kim Perrot (January 18, 1967 — August 19, 1999), was an American

United States

Basketball

Women's National Basketball Association

The Women's National Basketball Association has 13 teams and is an organization governing a professional basketball league for women in the United States....
for the Houston Comets

Houston Comets

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Cynthia Cooper (basketball)

Cynthia Lynne Cooper-Dyke is a retired American basketball player who has won championships in college, the Olympics, and in the Women's National Basketball Association ....
. Perrot wore jersey number 10 with the Comets organization, which has since retired her jersey. She averaged over seven points and four rebounds per game during her two seasons as a member of the Comets. On her last game with the Comets, exactly one year before her death, she scored ten points against the Los Angeles Sparks

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In February 1999, she was diagnosed with lung cancer

Lung cancer

Lung cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell growth in tissue of the lung. This growth may lead to metastasis, which is the invasion of adjacent tissue and infiltration beyond the lungs....
, which later extended to her brain

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. While she was not on the basketball court with the Comets that year, many of her teammates considered her to be a spiritual uplifting force for the team.

Perrot went to Mexico

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to seek alternative methods to battle cancer; many attribute her death to that move, although the virulent type of cancer gave her little chance of survival with conventional medicine. In Mexico, she was joined by Cooper. Two days before her death, she took a Medevac

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flight back to Houston

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from Tijuana

Tijuana

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, with Cooper and members of the Perrot family flying along. She became the first active player in the WNBA to die.

After her death, the Comets went on to win a third straight WNBA title, and a tearful Cooper celebrated what the team called "#3 for #10". She was posthumously awarded a third championship ring, her #10 jersey was retired, thus making her the first player in league history to have her number retired, and Comets fans raised money to create "Kim's Place", an area at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston where kids with cancer can play games, sports and relax.

Two awards have been named after her: the "Kim Perrot Leadership Award" and the WNBA's "Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award".

Kim Perrot

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