{"id":523274,"date":"2026-01-07T20:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/523274\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T20:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:22:18","slug":"former-nba-player-teammate-of-michael-jordan-dies-at-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/523274\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NBA player, teammate of Michael Jordan dies at 68"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Former NBA player Jawann Oldham, who played alongside Michael Jordan with the Chicago Bulls, has died. He was 68 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Oldham died Monday in Atlanta, according to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/sports\/seattle-university\/jawann-oldham-a-basketball-star-at-cleveland-high-seattle-u-dies-at-68\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Seattle Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Seattle Times<\/a>. Seattle University confirmed his death to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Prior to beginning his pro basketball career, Jawann Oldham starred at Seattle U. He is a member of the school\u2019s Hall of Fame after scoring 1,530 points in 104 career games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Oldham averaged 17.9 points and 10.9 rebounds per game as a junior in college, before averaging 16.9 points and 10.4 rebounds as a senior. He was then drafted by the Denver Nuggets in the second round of the 1980 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The center would go on to play for the Nuggets, Rockets, Bulls, Knicks, Kings, Magic, Lakers and Pacers across his 10-year NBA career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Oldham played for the Bulls for four seasons from 1982-86, including when Michael Jordan was a rookie in 1984-85, as well as Jordan\u2019s second year in the league in 85-86.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jawann Oldham averaged 4.4 points and 4.1 rebounds per game for his career. His best season came in 1985-86 with the Bulls when he was playing with Jordan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">That year he averaged a career high 7.4 points and 5.9 rebounds per game while making 47 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/sports\/2026\/01\/former-nba-player-teammate-of-michael-jordan-dies-at-68.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:pennlive.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">pennlive.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NBA player Jawann Oldham, who played alongside Michael Jordan with the Chicago Bulls, has died. He was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[676,7,329,187,72315,304,300,935,6,114,819,211,4205],"class_list":["post-523274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-atlanta","tag-basketball","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-jawann-oldham","tag-knicks","tag-lakers","tag-michael-jordan","tag-nba","tag-pacers","tag-rebounds-per-game","tag-rockets","tag-seattle-university"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115855684281549616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}