{"id":523166,"date":"2026-03-08T20:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523166\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T20:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:11:09","slug":"nbas-leah-wilcox-to-receive-basketball-hofs-lifetime-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523166\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA\u2019s Leah Wilcox to receive Basketball HOF\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">NBA VP &amp; Commissioner\u2019s Office Liaison Leah Wilcox will receive the 2026 John W. Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Basketball HOF. Wilcox serves as a liaison between the Commissioner\u2019s Office, former players and their families. Wilcox, who formerly held the role of VP\/Player &amp; Talent Relations, was the first African-American female VP of the NBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">The Basketball HOF also announced the recipients of the 2026 Curt Gowdy Media Awards: <\/p>\n<p>Curt Gowdy Electronic Media Award: Nets play-by-play announcer Chris Carrino.Curt Gowdy Electronic Media Award: Basketball analyst Mike Fratello.Curt Gowdy Print Media Award: College basketball writer and broadcaster Seth Davis.Curt Gowdy Transformative Media Award: Ma Gouli, the founder of China\u2019s most watched sports TV channel CCTV-5 (Basketball HOF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA VP &amp; Commissioner\u2019s Office Liaison Leah Wilcox will receive the 2026 John W. Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,75,459,82],"class_list":["post-523166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}