{"id":1730217,"date":"2022-07-31T13:44:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T17:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1730217"},"modified":"2022-07-31T13:44:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T17:44:22","slug":"bill-russell-nba-great-and-celtics-legend-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1730217","title":{"rendered":"Bill Russell, NBA great and Celtics legend, dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/bill-russell-nba-great-and-celtics-legend-dies-at-88\/20397284\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/nba\/2022\/07\/31\/20397285\/media_20d7f8e408ef4a4fa145da3b9e99b701-DMID1-5vqo125pu-80x53.jpg\" alt=\"Obit-Bill_Russell_Basketball_97216\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Bill Russell, the NBA great who anchored a Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in 13 years \u2014 the last two as the first Black head coach in any major U.S. sport \u2014 and marched for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr., died Sunday. He was 88. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/bill-russell-nba-great-and-celtics-legend-dies-at-88\/20397284\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/bill-russell-nba-great-and-celtics-legend-dies-at-88\/20397284\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Bill Russell, NBA great and Celtics legend, dies at 88\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Russell, the NBA great who anchored a Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in 13 years \u2014 the last two as the first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1730217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1730217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1730217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1730217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}