{"id":221827,"date":"2021-03-22T16:21:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T21:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=221827"},"modified":"2021-03-22T16:21:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T21:21:44","slug":"elgin-baylor-the-big-e-passes-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=221827","title":{"rendered":"Elgin Baylor &#8220;The Big E,&#8221; passes, 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-221829\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Baylor-Elgin-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Baylor-Elgin-2.jpg 208w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Baylor-Elgin-2-150x175.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Elgin Baylor, the Lakers\u2019 11-time NBA All-Star, has died. The Lakers said Monday that Baylor died of natural causes in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter by his side. With a silky-smooth jumper and fluid athleticism, Baylor played a major role in revolutionizing basketball from a ground-bound sport into an aerial show. He was the first NBA player to surpass 70 points in a game. Lakers great Jerry West called him \u201cone of the most spectacular shooters the world has ever seen.\u201d Baylor&#8217;s second career as a personnel executive with the Los Angeles Clippers was much less successful. Elgin Baylor was 86 years old.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Elgin Baylor, the Lakers\u2019 11-time NBA All-Star, has died. The Lakers said Monday that Baylor died of natural causes in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter by his side. With a silky-smooth jumper and fluid athleticism, Baylor played a major role in revolutionizing basketball from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":221830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221827","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\/221827","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=221827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221831,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221827\/revisions\/221831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/221830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}