{"id":147658,"date":"2018-06-20T15:16:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T20:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=147658"},"modified":"2018-06-20T16:47:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T21:47:29","slug":"nba-pioneer-billy-kenville-passes-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=147658","title":{"rendered":"NBA pioneer, Billy Kenville passes, 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"entryContent\" class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-147659\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/KenvilleBill-300x240.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/KenvilleBill-300x240.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/KenvilleBill-150x120.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/KenvilleBill-219x175.jpeg 219w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/KenvilleBill.jpeg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Syracuse, N.Y.\u00a0 (Syracuse.com) &#8212; Bill Kenville, who played on the Syracuse Nationals&#8217; 1955 NBA championship team, has died.<\/p>\n<p>Kenville&#8217;s son, Mark, said his father passed away on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kenville played at St. Bonaventure from 1950 to 1953. The Nationals selected him in the third round of the 1953 draft.<\/p>\n<p>He spent the next three seasons with the Nationals. In the 1954-55 season, Kenville played alongside greats like Dolph Schayes and Earl Lloyd as the Nationals captured the NBA title. He averaged 7.1 points per game that season.<\/p>\n<p>Kenville later spent one season with the Fort Wayne Pistons before the franchise moved to Detroit. He played with the Detroit Pistons for two more years.<\/p>\n<p>He finished with career averages of 7.1 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game.<\/p>\n<div id=\"asset-24621187\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syracuse, N.Y.\u00a0 (Syracuse.com) &#8212; Bill Kenville, who played on the Syracuse Nationals&#8217; 1955 NBA championship team, has died. Kenville&#8217;s son, Mark, said his father passed away on Tuesday. Kenville played at St. Bonaventure from 1950 to 1953. The Nationals selected him in the third round of the 1953 draft. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147662,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147658\/revisions\/147662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/147669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}