{"id":807975,"date":"2026-08-10T02:42:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/807975\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T02:42:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:42:35","slug":"nba-hall-of-fame-coach-don-nelson-who-led-milwaukee-bucks-to-7-division-titles-dies-at-86-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/807975\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Hall of Fame coach Don Nelson, who led Milwaukee Bucks to 7 division titles, dies at 86 | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE \u2014 Don Nelson, the second-winningest coach in NBA history and a five-time NBA champion as a player, has died at 86.<\/p>\n<p>Before &#8220;Nellie Ball&#8221; revolutionized the league, Donald Arvid Nelson built a dynasty of innovation in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>From 1976 to 1987, Nelson transformed the Bucks into a powerhouse, delivering seven consecutive division titles and earning NBA Coach of the Year honors in 1983 and 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson introduced concepts like the &#8220;point forward&#8221; that altered modern basketball forever.\u00a0He was a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>It was announced\u00a0Sunday of his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 Don Nelson, the second-winningest coach in NBA history and a five-time NBA champion as a player,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,102,121,3871,6,67,1974],"class_list":["post-807975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-bucks","tag-basketball","tag-bucks","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-milwaukeebucks","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117068912590186909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807975","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=807975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}