{"id":200531,"date":"2020-06-02T11:35:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T16:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=200531"},"modified":"2020-06-04T12:08:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T17:08:13","slug":"basketball-hofer-wes-unseld-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=200531","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Hall of Famer Wes Unseld dies at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-200543\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/UnseldWes2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/UnseldWes2.jpg 188w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/UnseldWes2-123x175.jpg 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Basketball Hall of Famer Wes Unseld, who led Washington to its only NBA championship, has died at age 74. Unseld is one of two players in NBA history to win Rookie of the Year and MVP awards in the same season. He died Tuesday after a series of health issues, most recently pneumonia, according to a statement from his family released by the Wizards. Unseld was a powerful 6-foot-7, 245-pound center who dominated as a rebounder and led Washington\u2019s team \u2014 then known as the Bullets \u2014 to the 1978 NBA championship, earning Finals MVP honors. He was a five-time All-Star who played all 13 of his NBA seasons with the franchise that drafted him in 1968 out of the University of Louisville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Basketball Hall of Famer Wes Unseld, who led Washington to its only NBA championship, has died at age 74. Unseld is one of two players in NBA history to win Rookie of the Year and MVP awards in the same season. He died Tuesday after a series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":200539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200531","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\/200531","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=200531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200786,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200531\/revisions\/200786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/200539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}