{"id":2488428,"date":"2026-07-04T21:24:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2488428"},"modified":"2026-07-04T21:24:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:24:43","slug":"local-man-shares-many-artifacts-of-rochester-royals-relationship-with-les-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/local-man-shares-many-artifacts-of-rochester-royals-relationship-with-les-harrison\/","title":{"rendered":"Local man shares many artifacts of Rochester Royals, relationship with Les Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"storyContent\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) \u2013 David Dworkin is a co-owner of the Sacramento Kings, the franchise that was once known as the Rochester Royals. And through an amazing family connection, he has one of the coolest stashes of memorabilia from the old Royals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From game programs and tickets to Les Harrison\u2019s own Hall of Fame ring, Dworkin isn\u2019t shy about showing it off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLester and I were very friendly when he was alive. When Lester passed away, he left me all of his basketball memorabilia,\u201d said Dworkin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you aren\u2019t familiar, Harrison was Rochester\u2019s coach and owner in the 1940s and 50s. We\u2019ll dive deeper into his accomplishments in an upcoming story to celebrate their 75th anniversary of winning the 1951 NBA Finals. But for now, all you need to know is that he was a pretty big deal in basketball back in the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out the video below to read more about Dworkin\u2019s artifacts!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-fuel-fuelshortcode\">\n<div class=\"single-clip shortcode-video\">\n<div class=\"bitcentral-fuel-player-section\">\n<p>David Dworkin&#8217;s artifacts of Rochester Royals<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <!-- RevContent Tag --><\/p>\n<p>        <!-- End Tags - RevContent -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.whec.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) \u2013 David Dworkin is a co-owner of the Sacramento Kings, the franchise that was once known as the Rochester Royals. And through an amazing family connection, he has one of the coolest stashes of memorabilia from the old Royals. From game programs and tickets to Les Harrison\u2019s own Hall of Fame ring, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2488429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Local-man-shares-many-artifacts-of-Rochester-Royals-relationship-with.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488430,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488428\/revisions\/2488430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2488429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}