{"id":30613,"date":"2013-10-23T15:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T20:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=30613"},"modified":"2013-10-25T15:13:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T20:13:34","slug":"bill-sharman-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=30613","title":{"rendered":"Bill Sharman Dies at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sharmanbill2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30618\" alt=\"sharmanbill2\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sharmanbill2.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>LOS ANGELES (AP Oct 25, 2013) &#8211; Bill Sharman, the Hall of Famer who won NBA titles as a player for the Boston Celtics and a coach for the Los Angeles Lakers, has died. He was 87.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sharman died Friday at his home in Redondo Beach, the Lakers announced.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sharman&#8217;s unique basketball career spanned both sides of the Celtics-Lakers rivalry.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He won four NBA titles during an 11-season career as a shooting guard in Boston. Sharman then spent the past four decades with Los Angeles as a successful coach and front office executive.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sharman coached the 1971-72 Lakers to a championship with 69 victories and a 33-game winning streak, the longest in pro sports history.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sharman was elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 1976 and a coach in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP Oct 25, 2013) &#8211; Bill Sharman, the Hall of Famer who won NBA titles as a player for the Boston Celtics and a coach for the Los Angeles Lakers, has died. He was 87. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sharman died Friday at his home in Redondo Beach, the Lakers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30613","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\/30613","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=30613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30622,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30613\/revisions\/30622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}