Longtime basketball coach Jason Rabedeaux, who guided the Link Tochigi Brex to start the 2010-11 JBL season, died on Monday in Ho Chi Minh City. He was 49.
Rabedeaux died during the ride to FV Hospital after falling at home and being discovered unconscious around 6:20 a.m., according to published reports in Vietnam.
A native of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Rabedeaux coached the ASEAN Basketball League's Saigon Heat, Vietnam's first pro basketball team, to a 72-61 home victory over the Indonesia Warriors on Sunday. With the win, the Heat improved to 6-7 in the six-team league.