{"id":14031,"date":"2024-10-14T23:02:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T23:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=14031"},"modified":"2024-10-14T23:05:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T23:05:56","slug":"the-bryant-family-faces-another-profound-loss-sending-prayers-their-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=14031","title":{"rendered":"The Bryant family faces another profound loss. Sending prayers their way."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe \u201cJellybean\u201d Bryant, father of Kobe Bryant and former NBA player, passed away at sixty-nine. No official cause of death has been disclosed, but he recently suffered a severe stroke, as mentioned by La Salle University and coach Fran Dunphy.Joe Bryant had been largely out of the public eye since Kobe\u2019s tragic death in a helicopter crash four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2010 interview, Kobe praised his father\u2019s basketball knowledge, saying Joe taught him \u201chow to view the game, how to prepare for the game and how to execute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe Bryant was a standout at La Salle University and played professionally in the NBA and abroad. The 76ers honored him as a \u201clocal basketball icon.\u201d Doug Young, a former teammate of Kobe, remembered Joe as an exceptional role model.Joe averaged 8.7 points and 4.0 rebounds over 606 NBA games.<\/p>\n<p>After his playing career, he coached in the U.S., Japan, and Thailand, including a stint with the WNBA\u2019s Los Angeles Sparks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe \u201cJellybean\u201d Bryant, father of Kobe Bryant and former NBA player, passed away at sixty-nine. No official cause of death has been disclosed, but he recently suffered&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14034,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14031\/revisions\/14034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}