{"id":7803,"date":"2024-11-12T22:38:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T22:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/?p=7803"},"modified":"2024-11-12T22:38:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T22:38:08","slug":"another-terrible-loss-for-the-bryant-family-sending-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/?p=7803","title":{"rendered":"Another Terrible Loss For The Bryant Family, Sending Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe \u201cJellybean\u201d Bryant, the father of Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant and a former NBA player, has passed away at the age of sixty-nine. As of Tuesday morning, no official cause of death has been disclosed. La Salle University, where Bryant played and later coached, released a statement expressing that he \u201cwas a beloved member of the Explorer family and will be dearly missed.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/collage-23-1024x768-1-300x225.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/collage-23-1024x768-1-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/collage-23-1024x768-1-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/collage-23-1024x768-1.webp 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nDoug Young, a former teammate of Kobe, remembered Joe as an exemplary \u201crole model,\u201d noting, \u201cHe made basketball fun and made us all want to be better.\u201d Joe Bryant later coached at various levels, including the WNBA\u2019s Los Angeles Sparks.<\/p>\n<p>Arn Tellem, Kobe\u2019s former agent, said, \u201cJoe \u2018Jellybean\u2019 Bryant was a true Philly hoops legend\u2026 whose warmth touched everyone he met.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe \u201cJellybean\u201d Bryant, the father of Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant and a former NBA player, has passed away at the age of sixty-nine. As of Tuesday&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7806,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7803\/revisions\/7806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}