{"id":188445,"date":"2020-01-01T17:51:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T23:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=188445"},"modified":"2020-01-01T17:52:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T23:52:21","slug":"former-nba-commissioner-david-stern-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=188445","title":{"rendered":"Former NBA Commissioner, David Stern Passes, 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-188446\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/stern-david-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/stern-david-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/stern-david-768x587.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/stern-david-229x175.jpg 229w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/stern-david.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>(AP) David Stern, who spent 30 years as the NBA&#8217;s commissioner and oversaw its growth into a global power, has died. He was 77. The league says Stern died Wednesday after suffering a brain hemorrhage Dec. 12. Stern had been involved with the NBA for nearly two decades before becoming commissioner in 1984. By the time he left in 2014, a league that had struggled for a foothold had grown into a more than $5 billion a year industry and become perhaps the world&#8217;s most popular sport after soccer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) David Stern, who spent 30 years as the NBA&#8217;s commissioner and oversaw its growth into a global power, has died. He was 77. The league says Stern died Wednesday after suffering a brain hemorrhage Dec. 12. Stern had been involved with the NBA for nearly two decades before becoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":188447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188445","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\/188445","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=188445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188449,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188445\/revisions\/188449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/188447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}