{"id":134279,"date":"2024-06-19T21:31:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T01:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=134279"},"modified":"2024-06-19T21:31:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T01:31:49","slug":"chet-walker-hall-of-famer-who-sued-the-nba-dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=134279","title":{"rendered":"Chet Walker, Hall Of Famer Who Sued The NBA, Dies At 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-134275\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/d0bfb200-2614-11ef-bf5e-48020c4ff7df.webp-640x439.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/d0bfb200-2614-11ef-bf5e-48020c4ff7df.webp-640x439.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/d0bfb200-2614-11ef-bf5e-48020c4ff7df.webp-160x110.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/d0bfb200-2614-11ef-bf5e-48020c4ff7df.webp.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Chet Walker<\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chet Walker, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia\/\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/chicago\/\">Chicago Bulls<\/a>\u00a0great enshrined in the Naismith Hall of Fame, has died, his former teams confirmed Saturday. He was 84 years old.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Walker, nicknamed &#8220;Chet the Jet&#8221; for his speed on the court, earned NBA All-Star honors in seven of his 13 seasons as a professional, winning a championship in 1967 with the Sixers. He didn&#8217;t miss the playoffs once in his career, which ended after he settled a lawsuit against the Bulls and the NBA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chet Walker waited a long time for Hall of Fame enshrinement. He believed he was blackballed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chet Walker Chet Walker, a\u00a0Philadelphia 76ers\u00a0and\u00a0Chicago Bulls\u00a0great enshrined in the Naismith Hall of Fame, has died, his former teams confirmed Saturday. He was 84 years old. Walker, nicknamed &#8220;Chet the Jet&#8221; for his speed on the court, earned NBA All-Star honors in seven of his 13 seasons as a professional, winning a championship in 1967 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134281,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134279\/revisions\/134281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}