{"id":58954,"date":"2025-08-11T02:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/58954\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T02:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:18:07","slug":"gradey-dick-returns-to-hometown-to-host-basketball-camp-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/58954\/","title":{"rendered":"Gradey Dick returns to hometown to host basketball camp for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) &#8211; After posting one of his best seasons as a basketball player, Gradey Dick returned to Wichita to host his second annual basketball camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dozens of kids came out to Wichita Hoops Sunday to learn basketball drills from the rising NBA star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Wichita Collegiate and Sunrise Christian Academy alum went on to play basketball at Kansas before being drafted by the Toronto Raptors. This past season, Dick averaged over 14 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dick says it wasn\u2019t long ago that he was a young kid looking up to pro athletes and wants to use his camps to help be a mentor for them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cTo be back in my hometown is when I\u2019m having the most fun, and that\u2019s when I can show these kids what it\u2019s like to live a pro life of basketball but also have fun with it,\u201d said Dick. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dick\u2019s weekend in his hometown will also feature the inaugural Gradey Dick Charitable Golf Tournament at Crestview Country Club on Monday that will support local charities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KWCH. All rights reserved. To report a correction or typo, please email news@kwch.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) &#8211; After posting one of his best seasons as a basketball player, Gradey Dick returned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,48172,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-58954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-gradey-dick","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}