{"id":229896,"date":"2026-08-10T01:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T01:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/don-nelson-the-second-winnigest-head-coach-in-nba-history-dies-aged-86\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T01:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T01:49:19","slug":"don-nelson-the-second-winnigest-head-coach-in-nba-history-dies-aged-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/don-nelson-the-second-winnigest-head-coach-in-nba-history-dies-aged-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Nelson, the second-winnigest head coach in NBA history, dies aged 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legendary coach and former player, credited for introducing the \u201cNellie ball\u201d, was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach in 2012 for \u2013 at the time \u2013 holding the most wins as a head coach in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/08\/09\/don-nelson-the-second-winnigest-head-coach-in-nba-history-dies-aged-86\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legendary coach and former player, credited for introducing the \u201cNellie ball\u201d, was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach in 2012 for \u2013 at the time \u2013 holding the most wins as a head coach in NBA history. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":229897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}