{"id":105719,"date":"2024-05-27T18:03:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T18:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/basketball-legend-bill-walton-dead-at-71\/"},"modified":"2024-05-27T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T18:03:27","slug":"basketball-legend-bill-walton-dead-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/basketball-legend-bill-walton-dead-at-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball legend Bill Walton dead at 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-27\/Getty_052724_BillWalton.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Allen Berezovsky\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; Bill Walton, the legendary basketball player and sportscaster, died Monday at 71, according to the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time NBA champion and Hall of Famer died of cancer and was surrounded by family, the NBA said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver called Walton &#8220;truly one of a kind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a Hall of Fame player, he redefined the center position,&#8221; Silver said. &#8220;His unique all-around skills made him a dominant force at UCLA and led to an NBA regular-season and Finals MVP, two NBA championships and a spot on the NBA&#8217;s 50th and 75th Anniversary Teams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a story in development.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen Berezovsky\/Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; Bill Walton, the legendary basketball player and sportscaster, died Monday at 71, according to the NBA. The two-time NBA champion and Hall of Famer died of cancer and was surrounded by family, the NBA said. In a statement, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver called Walton<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/basketball-legend-bill-walton-dead-at-71\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}