{"id":432510,"date":"2025-03-12T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T07:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=432510"},"modified":"2025-03-12T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T07:27:00","slug":"junior-bridgeman-former-nba-sixth-man-turned-billionaire-entrepreneur-dies-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/junior-bridgeman-former-nba-sixth-man-turned-billionaire-entrepreneur-dies-at-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Bridgeman, former NBA sixth man turned billionaire entrepreneur, dies at 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1043\" data-end=\"1216\"><strong data-start=\"1043\" data-end=\"1063\">Junior Bridgeman<\/strong>, former <strong data-start=\"1072\" data-end=\"1089\">NBA sixth man<\/strong> and billionaire entrepreneur, passed away Tuesday at <strong data-start=\"1143\" data-end=\"1149\">71<\/strong> after suffering a medical emergency in <strong data-start=\"1189\" data-end=\"1213\">Louisville, Kentucky<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1218\" data-end=\"1640\">Bridgeman, who played for the <strong data-start=\"1248\" data-end=\"1267\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1272\" data-end=\"1287\">LA Clippers<\/strong>, built a <strong data-start=\"1297\" data-end=\"1317\">fast-food empire<\/strong> post-retirement, later becoming a <strong data-start=\"1352\" data-end=\"1386\">Coca-Cola bottling distributor<\/strong> and a <strong data-start=\"1393\" data-end=\"1424\">minority owner of the Bucks<\/strong>. His <strong data-start=\"1430\" data-end=\"1449\">business acumen<\/strong> made him one of the wealthiest former athletes, surpassing <strong data-start=\"1509\" data-end=\"1538\">$1.4 billion in net worth<\/strong>. <strong data-start=\"1540\" data-end=\"1572\">NBA Commissioner Adam Silver<\/strong> praised him as a <strong data-start=\"1590\" data-end=\"1637\">mentor for financial literacy among players<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1642\" data-end=\"1799\">From <strong data-start=\"1647\" data-end=\"1706\">modest beginnings to NBA success and business greatness<\/strong>, Bridgeman\u2019s <strong data-start=\"1720\" data-end=\"1742\">legacy will endure<\/strong> as an inspiration to athletes and entrepreneurs alike.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1844\" data-end=\"1862\"><em data-start=\"1844\" data-end=\"1853\">Source:<\/em> <em data-start=\"1854\" data-end=\"1860\">ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junior Bridgeman, ex giocatore NBA e imprenditore di successo, \u00e8 morto marted\u00ec all\u2019et\u00e0 di 71 anni dopo un malore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371677,"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,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-432510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Milwaukee-Bucks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432510"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=432510"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=432510"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=432510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}