Former NBA standout and Wake Forest star Rodney Rogers died on Friday at the age of 54, his family announced . Rogers played 12 NBA seasons, averaging 10.9 points and 4.5 rebounds per game over his career, and earned the league's Sixth Man of the Year honor in 2000 as a member of the Phoenix Suns .

Rogers died from "natural causes related to the spinal cord injury" he sustained in a 2008 ATV accident, his wife, Faye, said in a statement .

Rogers was a two-time All-ACC player at Wake Forest, was the league's player of the year in 1993 and has his No. 54 retired by the Demon Deacons. The ninth overall pick of the Denver Nuggets in the 1993 NBA Draft , the former McDonald's All-American played two seasons with Denver bringing his best years came over stretch with the Los Angele

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