{"id":656503,"date":"2026-05-07T23:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/656503\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T23:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:25:08","slug":"former-warriors-star-jason-death-in-intensive-care-after-fall-in-sydney-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/656503\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Warriors star Jason Death in intensive care after fall in Sydney home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe Deaths have a long road ahead, and we\u2019d love to support them in any way we can. We don\u2019t know his full recovery path yet, but with your help and positive thoughts, we know he\u2019ll get through this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Death was a fan-favourite at the Warriors, where he played 55 of his 201 career games between 1999-2001.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">In 1999, he won the Warriors Player of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">He was well known for the nickname \u201cDr Death\u201d, and there was a \u201cDeath Row\u201d section at Mt Smart where fans would wear Grim Reaper costumes in support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">In 2001, he was part of the Warriors side that reached the NRL finals for the first time, which resulted in a defeat to the Parramatta Eels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Along with the Warriors, he also played for the Canberra Raiders, North Queensland Cowboys and South Sydney Rabbitohs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Since retiring, Death has been running a gym, north of Sydney. He has four kids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Former Warriors coach Ivan Cleary is his brother-in-law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/ben-francis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/ben-francis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Francis<\/a> is an Auckland-based reporter for the New Zealand Herald who covers breaking sports news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Deaths have a long road ahead, and we\u2019d love to support them in any way we can.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[9490,64,63,726,32140,1300,22138,21694,191,23690,4082,4717,317443,25101,44161,85,4031,670,3198],"class_list":["post-656503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-after","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-care","tag-death","tag-fall","tag-former","tag-home","tag-hooker","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-intensive","tag-jason","tag-serious","tag-sports","tag-star","tag-sydney","tag-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}