When Tari Eason’s life changed forever, he was thousands of feet in the air. It was March 26, 2025. Eason, then finishing his third season with the Houston Rockets, was on a team plane bound for Salt Lake City, where the Rockets played a game the next day against the Utah Jazz. The previous week, relatives had told the Rockets’ forward that his father and namesake, Tari Timothy Eason, was missing. The man he called Pops, known to most people as “OG” or “T-Money,” was beloved for his vivacious and confident personality. He was devoted to Eason’s 4-year-old sister, Talia, and it was unlike him to disappear while looking after her. Eason tried to remain even keeled and focus on basketball, to keep himself from thinking the worst. Five days later, New York authorities discovered the body of Tari Timothy Eason. He was 41.
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