{"id":183847,"date":"2019-10-30T07:37:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=183847"},"modified":"2019-10-30T07:37:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:37:56","slug":"nba-pioneer-al-bianchi-passes-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=183847","title":{"rendered":"NBA pioneer Al Bianchi passes, 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-183848\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/bianchial.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"144\" \/>UNDATED (AP) _ Former NBA player, coach and executive Al Bianchi (bee-AN\u2019-kee) has died at 87.<\/p>\n<p>Bianchi was an original member of the 76ers, starting his 10-year career with the Syracuse Nationals in 1956-57 and remaining with the team following its move to Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Knicks said Bianchi died in Arizona of natural causes. He was the team\u2019s general manager from 1987-91.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) _ Former NBA player, coach and executive Al Bianchi (bee-AN\u2019-kee) has died at 87. Bianchi was an original member of the 76ers, starting his 10-year career with the Syracuse Nationals in 1956-57 and remaining with the team following its move to Philadelphia. The New York Knicks said Bianchi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":183849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183847","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\/183847","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=183847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183850,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183847\/revisions\/183850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/183849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}