{"id":873636,"date":"2026-08-30T08:34:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T08:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/873636\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T08:34:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T08:34:35","slug":"former-biloxi-basketball-coach-jackie-laird-remembered-by-those-he-impacted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/873636\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Biloxi basketball coach Jackie Laird remembered by those he impacted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) \u2014 Saturday night, the Sunkist Country Club was filled with people remembering former Biloxi High School basketball coach Jackie Laird.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Laird led the Biloxi High basketball team for 25 years, becoming a mentor and father figure to countless athletes along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">One of those athletes was Sever Windham, who went on to become Biloxi High\u2019s basketball coach for nearly 30 years. He said he wasn\u2019t nervous to step into Laird\u2019s shoes because Laird had already taught him everything he needed to know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSo I didn\u2019t feel like I had to be bigger than him. I just had to follow his footsteps. The game of basketball is hard. You\u2019re gonna win some, you\u2019re gonna lose some. But you\u2019ve got to built relationships with young men, build relationships with your community, and that\u2019s what he taught me how to do,\u201d Windham said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jackie Laird is survived by his wife, two children, three grandchildren and two sisters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammar error in this story? Report it to our team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlox.com\/page\/error-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WLOX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) \u2014 Saturday night, the Sunkist Country Club was filled with people remembering former Biloxi High&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-873636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873636","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=873636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}