{"id":77194,"date":"2026-08-09T14:54:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T19:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/09\/don-nelson-legendary-coach-and-five-time-nba-champion-as-player-dies-at-86\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T14:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T19:54:46","slug":"don-nelson-legendary-coach-and-five-time-nba-champion-as-player-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/09\/don-nelson-legendary-coach-and-five-time-nba-champion-as-player-dies-at-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Nelson, legendary coach and five-time NBA champion as player, dies at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Nelson had second-most coaching wins in NBA history<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Won five titles with Boston Celtics in 1960s and 70s<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Helped develop stars Steph Curry and Dirk Nowitzki<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don Nelson, the second-winningest coach in NBA history who won five championships as a player with the Boston Celtics, died on Sunday. He was 86.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson\u2019s death was announced by the Golden State Warriors, one of the teams he coached.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/09\/don-nelson-legendary-coach-and-five-time-nba-champion-as-player-dies-at-86\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson had second-most coaching wins in NBA history Won five titles with Boston Celtics in 1960s and 70s Helped develop stars Steph Curry and Dirk Nowitzki Don Nelson, the second-winningest coach in NBA history who won five championships as a player with the Boston Celtics, died on Sunday. He was 86. Nelson\u2019s death was announced &#8230; <a title=\"Don Nelson, legendary coach and five-time NBA champion as player, dies at 86\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/09\/don-nelson-legendary-coach-and-five-time-nba-champion-as-player-dies-at-86\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Don Nelson, legendary coach and five-time NBA champion as player, dies at 86\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}