{"id":33682,"date":"2024-08-13T09:32:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T13:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=33682"},"modified":"2024-08-13T09:32:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T13:32:04","slug":"frank-selvy-furman-paladin-basketball-great-dies-at-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/frank-selvy-furman-paladin-basketball-great-dies-at-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Selvy, Furman Paladin basketball great, dies at 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Furman All-American Frank Selvy, one of the greatest players in college basketball history, passed away this morning at his home in Simpsonville, S.C., surrounded by his family, which made the announcement.\u00a0 He was 91 years old.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt is with a heavy heart and great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Frank Selvy, Furman\u2019s all-time greatest athlete, a consensus All-American, NBA all-star, distinguished member of the College Basketball Hall of Fame, and one of the greatest scorers in the history of college basketball,\u201d said Jason Donnelly, Furman\u2019s Vice President of Intercollegiate Athletics. \u201cMore than his accomplishments on the court, Frank\u2019s devotion to his family was his greatest achievement. Our thoughts and prayers are with Barbara and the entire Selvy family. We will miss Frank dearly but will remember him forever \u2014 a true Paladin legend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/furmanpaladins.com\/news\/2024\/8\/13\/mens-basketball-furman-basketball-great-frank-selvy-passes-away.aspx\">the Paladin website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Selvy set NCAA records as a Furman Paladin and went on to an all-star career in the NBA. He remained a loyal friend, mentor and supporter of Furman. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":21857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[270,1695],"class_list":["post-33682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","tag-alumni","tag-frank-selvy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33682"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33685,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33682\/revisions\/33685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}