{"id":1934877,"date":"2026-09-24T17:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934877"},"modified":"2026-09-24T21:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:13:12","slug":"bob-pettit-imposing-hawks-great-and-first-nba-mvp-dies-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934877","title":{"rendered":"Bob Pettit, imposing Hawks great and first NBA MVP, dies at 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Bob Pettit, an imposing scorer and rebounder for the St. Louis Hawks and winner of the NBA\u2019s first Most Valuable Player award in 1956, has died. He was 93.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/92bb9-bob-pettit-imposing-hawks-great-and-first-nba-mvp-dies-at-93\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Bob Pettit, an imposing scorer and rebounder for the St. Louis Hawks and winner of the NBA\u2019s first Most Valuable Player award&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1934878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[117,118,114,115,119,116,120,121],"class_list":["post-1934877","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","tag-lanka","tag-odi","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934877","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=1934877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934879,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934877\/revisions\/1934879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1934878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}