{"id":16419,"date":"2020-09-01T13:39:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T08:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16419"},"modified":"2020-09-01T13:39:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T08:39:43","slug":"us-basketball-hall-of-fame-coach-thompson-dead-at-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16419","title":{"rendered":"US Basketball Hall of Fame coach Thompson dead at 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Famed US basketball coach John Thompson passed away on Monday, an NBA insider said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Georgetown\u2019s John Thompson\u00a0 Hall of Fame coach and a colossal figure in American sports\u00a0 has died at 78 years old,&#8221; Adrian Wojnarowski said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson coached the Georgetown Hoyas in 1972-1999.<\/p>\n<p>The Hoyas represent the Washington DC&#8217;s Georgetown University as the team plays in the NCAA.<\/p>\n<p>In the Thompson era, Georgetown generated many NBA superstars such as Patrick Ewing, Dikembe Mutombo, Alonzo Mourning, and Allen Iverson.<\/p>\n<p>As a player, Thompson claimed the 1965 and 1966 NBA titles with the Eastern Conference franchise Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, Georgetown was the NCAA champion as Thompson was the first black coach to win this title.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally he served for the US national team as head coach in the 1988 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>But the basketball powerhouse, Team USA had the bronze medal in the Seoul &#8217;88.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA Famed US basketball coach John Thompson passed away on Monday, an NBA insider said. &#8220;Georgetown\u2019s John Thompson\u00a0 Hall of Fame coach and a colossal figure in American sports\u00a0 has died at 78 years old,&#8221; Adrian Wojnarowski said on Twitter. Thompson coached the Georgetown Hoyas in 1972-1999. The Hoyas represent the Washington DC&#8217;s Georgetown University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16421,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16419\/revisions\/16421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}