{"id":7553,"date":"2020-10-15T12:55:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T19:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/?p=50000002011"},"modified":"2020-10-15T12:56:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T19:56:04","slug":"podcast-interview-with-former-laker-and-lmu-coach-paul-westhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/podcast-interview-with-former-laker-and-lmu-coach-paul-westhead","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST: Interview with former Laker and LMU coach Paul Westhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"PODCAST: Interview With Basketball Coach Paul Westhead\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/gpyeg-ef7223?from=usersite&amp;vjs=1&amp;skin=1&amp;fonts=Helvetica&amp;auto=0&amp;download=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThis week, JJ, Mike and Tyler speak to legendary basketball coach Paul Westhead and reminiscing about great Los Angeles Lakers teams of the past.<\/p>\n<p>Westhead coached the Lakers to the 1980 NBA championship, the first of the Showtime era, and helped revolutionize the game with his up-tempo style, especially at Loyola Marymount where his teams broke scoring records and, after the on-court death of Hank Gathers, made a magical run through the 1990 NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westhead coached the Lakers to the 1980 NBA championship, the first of the Showtime era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":17039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","pmpro_default_level":0,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","footnotes":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[2],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[199],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7553"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=7553"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}