{"id":1163610,"date":"2026-02-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/statue-outside-lakers-arena-is-another-first-for-pat-riley-the-consummate-coach\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:00:00","slug":"statue-outside-lakers-arena-is-another-first-for-pat-riley-the-consummate-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/statue-outside-lakers-arena-is-another-first-for-pat-riley-the-consummate-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue outside Lakers&#8217; arena is another first for Pat Riley, the consummate coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The brains behind the Showtime Lakers guided the team to seven NBA Finals and four titles in nine seasons. Sunday he becomes the first coach to get a statue.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2026-02-22\/statue-outside-lakers-arena-is-another-first-for-pat-riley\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2026-02-22\/statue-outside-lakers-arena-is-another-first-for-pat-riley<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brains behind the Showtime Lakers guided the team to seven NBA Finals and four titles in nine seasons. Sunday he becomes the first coach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}