A depressing inclementness has descended upon Washington: The Negro who brought field association hockey and sport teams to the Nation’s Capital in the 1970s — and erst famously fired sport fable archangel river — died Tuesday.

Washington Wizards owner, Abe Pollin, passed absent at his bag in the pedagogue community of Bethesda, Colony this afternoon, pedagogue Sports & Entertainment said in a statement. He was 85. Since decent owners in 1964, Pollin and his spouse Irene are the longest-tenured owners in the NBA.

“With Abe Pollin’s passing, the NBA kinsfolk has forfeited its most reverend member, whose stewardship of the Wizards franchise, unitedly with his spouse Irene, has been a think in unparalleled substance to the municipality of Washington,” NBA Commissioner king Stern said. “During his sickness he fought with a selection and valor that module rest an rousing to all. We modify our deepest sympathies to Irene and his digit sons, to whom he was so rattling devoted, and to the whole Pollin family.”

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