{"id":880888,"date":"2026-09-05T12:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/880888\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T12:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:04:16","slug":"nba-legend-to-wave-green-flag-for-lone-star-le-mans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/880888\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA legend to wave green flag for Lone Star Le Mans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Widely regarded as one of the best players of his generation, Bosh played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Toronto Raptors and subsequently the Miami Heat, where he formed the \u2018Big Three\u2019 alongside LeBron James and Dwyane Wade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">The Dallas-born star won two NBA titles with Miami in 2012 and 2013, and was selected to compete in the series\u2019 annual All-Star exhibition game on no fewer than 11 occasions between 2006 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Over the course of his illustrious career in the sport, Bosh also won a gold medal for the USA Men\u2019s National Team \u2013 nicknamed the \u2018Redeem Team\u2019 \u2013 in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">The Texan is a huge motorsport fan, and in addition to his role as official starter of the six-hour contest, he will also take part in the pre-race \u2018Lap of Honour\u2019 in a McLaren.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Lone Star Le Mans will get underway at 13:00 local time (GMT-5) on Sunday, 6 September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">All of FIA WEC. All of endurance racing\u2019s greatest battles. Watch live and on demand with FIAWEC+ \u2013 the official streaming platform of the FIA World Endurance Championship, wherever you are, whenever you want, including the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.fiawec.com\/en\/fia-wec\">Stream FIA WEC live<\/a> with FIAWEC+.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:8256\/5504;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dppiproduction-00004907-0001-6a9b63070bb4a774902695.jpg\" width=\"8256\" height=\"5504\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Widely regarded as one of the best players of his generation, Bosh played in the National Basketball Association&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-880888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880888","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=880888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}