{"id":698894,"date":"2026-04-05T02:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698894\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:17:19","slug":"former-nba-player-rayne-resident-killed-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698894\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NBA player, Rayne resident, killed in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Gerald Paddio, a former NBA player and Acadiana native, died Saturday afternoon in a single-vehicle crash. <\/p>\n<p>Paddio, 60, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which Acadia Parish Sheriff&#8217;s deputies say happened on Ebenezer Road near Addie Dr west of Rayne.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation revealed that for unknown reason, the driver&#8217;s vehicle left the roadway and struck a culvert. The driver was ejected and died from his injuries at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The victim&#8217;s family has been notified, and the driver has been identified as Paddio.<\/p>\n<p>Paddio played in three National Basketball Association seasons. He played for five teams: the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Seattle SuperSonics, the Indiana Pacers, the New York Knicks and the Washington Bullets. According to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gerald_Paddio\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his Wikipedia page<\/a>, he was a 6 foot 7 inch forward from Kilgore College and the University of Nevada Las Vegas who was selected by Boston in the third round of the 1988 NBA draft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Gerald Paddio, a former NBA player and Acadiana native, died Saturday afternoon in a single-vehicle crash. Paddio,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,113,126,3866,6,114],"class_list":{"0":"post-698894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-indiana","10":"tag-indiana-pacers","11":"tag-indianapacers","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-pacers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116349701317688662","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698894","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=698894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}