{"id":29465,"date":"2026-05-13T06:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/collins-first-openly-gay-nba-player-dies-aged-47\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T06:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:25:10","slug":"collins-first-openly-gay-nba-player-dies-aged-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/collins-first-openly-gay-nba-player-dies-aged-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Collins, first openly gay NBA player, dies aged 47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Collins shared late last year that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/clyp8rdldk1o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collins shared late last year that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29467,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29465\/revisions\/29467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}