{"id":35495,"date":"2013-12-30T14:54:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T20:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=35495"},"modified":"2013-12-30T14:54:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T20:54:17","slug":"dierking-part-of-chamberlain-trade-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=35495","title":{"rendered":"Dierking, Part Of Chamberlain Trade, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35496\" style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dierkingconnie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35496\" alt=\"l: Richie Guerin R: Connie Dierking\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dierkingconnie-195x300.jpg\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dierkingconnie-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dierkingconnie-431x663.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dierkingconnie-113x175.jpg 113w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dierkingconnie.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">l: Richie Guerin R: Connie Dierking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CINCINNATI (AP) &#8211; Connie Dierking, a longtime NBA player who was part of the trade that brought Wilt Chamberlain to Philadelphia, has died. He was 77.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His death was announced Monday by Cincinnati&#8217;s WKRC-TV, where daughter Cammy Dierking is a news anchor. It was confirmed by the University of Cincinnati, where he starred in the 1950s.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 WKRC reported that Dierking fell in November. No other details were released.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Brooklyn-born Dierking played with Oscar Robertson for the Bearcats in 1957-58.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dierking averaged 10.0 points and 6.7 rebounds in his NBA career. He averaged a career-high 16.7 points in 1969-70 for the Cincinnati Royals.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 6-foot-10 center was a 1958 first-round pick of the Syracuse Nationals, who became the 76ers.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In 1965, he was among three players traded to San Francisco to bring Chamberlain to Philadelphia, a move that helped the 76ers build an NBA champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (AP) &#8211; Connie Dierking, a longtime NBA player who was part of the trade that brought Wilt Chamberlain to Philadelphia, has died. He was 77. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His death was announced Monday by Cincinnati&#8217;s WKRC-TV, where daughter Cammy Dierking is a news anchor. It was confirmed by the University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35495","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\/35495","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=35495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35499,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35495\/revisions\/35499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}