{"id":81794,"date":"2015-09-13T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T04:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=81794"},"modified":"2015-09-13T23:06:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T04:06:39","slug":"basketball-legend-moses-malone-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=81794","title":{"rendered":"Basketball legend Moses Malone, passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/malonemosses.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-81795\" alt=\"malonemosses\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/malonemosses.png\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>NORFOLK, VA\u00a0 Hall of Famer Moses Malone, a true giant who broke barriers, dominated the boards and imposed his will on the interior like few others in basketball history, died Sunday. He was 60.<\/p>\n<p>His passing comes as a shock, as Malone just this weekend <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a id=\"yui_3_18_1_1_1442202919626_2069\" href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/blogs\/nba-ball-dont-lie\/%22https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBATV\/status\/642470932322217984\" data-rapid_p=\"15\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">attended the induction ceremonies<\/span><\/a> <\/span>for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame&#8217;s Class of 2015. Malone was already a long-tenured member of that particular establishment, having earned enshrinement <a id=\"yui_3_18_1_1_1442202919626_2073\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoophall.com\/hall-of-famers\/tag\/moses-e-malone\" data-rapid_p=\"16\">in 2001<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Malone was named the NBA&#8217;s Most Valuable Player three times \u2014 twice as a member of the Houston Rockets, after the 1978-79 and 1981-82 seasons, and once with the Philadelphia 76ers, following a 1982-83 season that also saw him earn Finals MVP honors for leading the Sixers to the NBA championship.<\/p>\n<p>News of Malone&#8217;s passing first came from Mark Berman of FOX 26 in Houston:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NORFOLK, VA\u00a0 Hall of Famer Moses Malone, a true giant who broke barriers, dominated the boards and imposed his will on the interior like few others in basketball history, died Sunday. He was 60. His passing comes as a shock, as Malone just this weekend attended the induction ceremonies for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81794","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\/81794","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=81794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81798,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81794\/revisions\/81798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}