[1] Estella Rogers sustained severe head injuries and required two operations when she was nearly killed in an automobile wreck in 1988.

[1] His stepfather James Spencer, who was the only man Rogers called "Dad", died of lung cancer in February 1990.

He was a two-time Greensboro News & Record All-State selection, and was named the 1990 North Carolina state Player of the Year.

[7] Rogers became a starter his second season, in large part due to frequent injuries suffered by LaPhonso Ellis.

On March 10, 1995, Rogers grabbed a career-high 21 rebounds, scored 19 points, and recorded 8 assists during a 99–88 win over the Detroit Pistons.

He averaged 13.8 points per game coming off the bench and won the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award in 2000.

Rogers remained with the Suns until February 2002, when he was traded to the Boston Celtics alongside Tony Delk for Milt Palacio, Randy Brown, Joe Johnson and a 2002 first-round draft pick.

After Rogers was traded to the Phoenix Suns in 1999, the family made Paradise Valley, Arizona their home until 2006.

Tisa returned to Durham to take over her father's family real estate business, in which Rogers was an investor.

Most of his Public Works Department co-workers did not know he had been in the NBA and set for life financially until his dirt bike accident later that year.

[11] Rogers was a volunteer girls' basketball coach at Rogers-Herr Middle School,[10] and he co-founded the Durham Eagles youth football team.

[10] On November 28, 2008, Rogers was involved in an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) crash in rural Vance County north of Raleigh.