{"id":430495,"date":"2023-03-21T16:48:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T20:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=430495"},"modified":"2023-03-21T16:43:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T20:43:35","slug":"willis-reed-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/willis-reed-dies-at-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Willis Reed dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willis Reed died Tuesday at 80-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>Reed\u2019s death was announced by the National Basketball Retired Players Association, which confirmed it through his family. The cause was not released, but Reed had been in poor health recently and was unable to travel to New York when the Knicks honored the 50th anniversary of their 1973 NBA championship team during their game against New Orleans on Feb 25.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">Our Captain. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2Bg1ro4y37\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2Bg1ro4y37<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NEW YORK KNICKS (@nyknicks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyknicks\/status\/1638265799633780737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe Knicks tweeted a photograph picturing Reed from behind walking onto the floor as his teammates were warming up for the 1970 finale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we mourn, we will always strive to uphold the standards he left behind \u2014 the unmatched leadership, sacrifice and work ethic that personified him as a champion among champions,\u201d the team said. \u201cHis is a legacy that will live forever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willis Reed died Tuesday at 80-years-old. Reed\u2019s death was announced by the National Basketball Retired Players Association, which confirmed it through his family. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":430496,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17172],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18191],"acf":{"announce":"He was the leader on Knicks\u2019 2 title teams","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/430495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/430495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430495"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=430495"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=430495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}