{"id":14193,"date":"2025-07-22T00:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14193\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:52:09","slug":"city-of-hamilton-to-hold-shai-rally-day-for-nbas-gilgeous-alexander-on-aug-7-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14193\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Hamilton to hold \u2018Shai Rally Day\u2019 for NBA\u2019s Gilgeous-Alexander on Aug. 7 | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/687e7f84023d1607fd6ffdb4jpeg.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 21, 2025 | 10:57 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>HAMILTON \u2014 The City of Hamilton has big plans to honour hometown NBA superstar Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.<\/p>\n<p>A celebration of Gilgeous-Alexander will be held Thursday, Aug. 7, and is dubbed as \u201cShai Rally Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old won the NBA\u2019s MVP award, the regular-season scoring title, NBA Finals MVP and his first NBA title with the Oklahoma City Thunder this past season. He\u2019s the second Canadian in NBA history to win league MVP, joining Steve Nash. <\/p>\n<p>He was also awarded best male athlete at the ESPYs last Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Canadian Press Jul 21, 2025 | 10:57 AM HAMILTON \u2014 The City of Hamilton has big plans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,459,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-14193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}