{"id":53889,"date":"2015-06-30T19:39:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T11:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=53889"},"modified":"2015-06-30T19:39:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T11:39:07","slug":"former-ginebra-import-jackson-vroman-dies-in-car-mishap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/30\/former-ginebra-import-jackson-vroman-dies-in-car-mishap\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ginebra import Jackson Vroman dies in car mishap"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_53891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53891\" style=\"width: 693px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Jackson-Vroman.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53891\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Jackson-Vroman.png\" alt=\"Former Ginebra import and NBA player Jackson Vroman plays for the Lebanese national basketball team at the 2009 FIBA Championship (Photo courtesy of FIBA) \" width=\"693\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Jackson-Vroman.png 693w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Jackson-Vroman-300x141.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Ginebra import and NBA player Jackson Vroman (right) plays for the Lebanese national basketball team at the 2009 FIBA Asia Championship (Photo courtesy of FIBA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Former Barangay Ginebra import and NBA player Jackson Vroman died at age 34 after a car crash accident on Tuesday, according to several reports.<\/p>\n<p>Before playing for the PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup in 2012, Vroman teamed up with NBA\u2019s Phoenix Suns in 2005 and the New Orleans Hornets in 2006, as well as FIBA\u2019s Lebanese national basketball team in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>He was imported in the PBA as a replacement for Chris Alexander and was able to take his team to the semifinals. The 6-foot-10 player averaged 16.64 points, 12 rebounds and 4.09 steals.<\/p>\n<p>Vroman was the son of former 1980\u2019s NBA player Brett. He started his basketball stint with Chicago Bulls in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Former Barangay Ginebra import and NBA player Jackson Vroman died at age 34 after a car crash accident &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":53891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-53889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}