{"id":16416,"date":"2025-11-01T06:38:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/?p=16416"},"modified":"2025-11-01T06:38:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:38:41","slug":"another-terrible-loss-for-the-bryant-family-sending-prayers-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/?p=16416","title":{"rendered":"Another Terrible Loss For The Bryant Family, Sending Prayers"},"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<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\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<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\">\n<div id=\"thenewzpost.com_responsive_2\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23293390090\/thenewzpost.com\/thenewzpost.com_responsive_2_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\">\n<div id=\"thenewzpost.com_responsive_3\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23293390090\/thenewzpost.com\/thenewzpost.com_responsive_3_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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. Arn Tellem, Kobe\u2019s former agent, called Joe a \u201ctrue Philly hoops legend.\u201d in the lower part we have the photos see it\u00a0<strong>Read more below<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","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 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/572269691_1374138450736692_4410035080278807111_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16418,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16416\/revisions\/16418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}