{"id":8238,"date":"2011-07-07T16:40:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T20:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8238"},"modified":"2011-07-07T15:15:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T19:15:04","slug":"armen-gilliam-dies-of-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8238","title":{"rendered":"Armen Gilliam Dies  Of Heart Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Armen Gilliam<\/strong>, who was part of the UNLV Runnin\u2019 Rebels basketball team that made a run to the Final Four in 1987 and played for several NBA teams, has died. He was 47.<\/p>\n<p>The Allegheny County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office said Wednesday that <strong>Gilliam<\/strong> died Tuesday night at the LA Fitness gym in Bridgeville while he was playing basketball.<\/p>\n<p>The office said the cause of death has not yet been determined pending an autopsy which is likely to be completed later Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>After college, the Phoenix Suns drafted <strong>Gilliam<\/strong> as the No. 2 overall pick in the first round of the draft. Besides the Suns, <strong>Gilliam<\/strong> also played with the then-Charlotte Hornets, Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Nets, Milwaukee Bucks and Utah Jazz. He retired in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Nicknamed \u2018\u2019The Hammer,\u2019\u2018 <strong>Gilliam<\/strong> was the leading scorer on the 1987 UNLV team coached by <strong>Jerry Tarkanian<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armen Gilliam, who was part of the UNLV Runnin\u2019 Rebels basketball team that made a run to the Final Four in 1987 and played for several NBA teams, has died. He was 47. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office said Wednesday that Gilliam died Tuesday night at the LA Fitness gym in Bridgeville while he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8238","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\/8238","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\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}