{"id":1934661,"date":"2026-09-23T16:42:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934661"},"modified":"2026-09-23T17:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T21:42:12","slug":"a-selfless-person-former-blue-devil-jay-bilas-says-chris-spatolas-impact-went-beyond-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934661","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A selfless person&#8217;: Former Blue Devil Jay Bilas says Chris Spatola&#8217;s impact went beyond the court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN basketball analyst and former Duke Blue Devil player and assistant coach Jay Bilas spoke with WRAL on Wednesday, sharing memories of his friend and colleague after Spatola died suddenly on Monday. He was 47 years old.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/sports\/all-american-friend-espn-colleague-describe-chris-spatolas-character-following-sudden-death-september-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN basketball analyst and former Duke Blue Devil player and assistant coach Jay Bilas spoke with WRAL on Wednesday, sharing memories of his friend and colleague&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1934662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[117,118,114,115,119,116],"class_list":["post-1934661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-barcelona","tag-bayern","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-madrid","tag-pakistan","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934661","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1934661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934663,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934661\/revisions\/1934663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1934662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}