{"id":16685,"date":"2025-07-23T00:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16685\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T00:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:21:07","slug":"four-time-nba-all-star-got-first-ring-in-2025-summer-league-but-not-in-the-way-youd-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16685\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-time NBA All-Star got first ring in 2025 Summer League, but not in the way you&#8217;d expect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/charlotte-hornets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> have won very little in their relatively short time in the <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They haven&#8217;t made the playoffs since 2016, and they&#8217;ve never made it to even a conference finals.<\/p>\n<p>It may be just a Summer League title to many, but it was the first of any kind of title the Hornets earned in their team&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Lost in the moment of this title was that a Hornets legend finally got a ring.<\/p>\n<p>What Hornets legend won a ring at the 2025 Summer League?<\/p>\n<p>Every Charlotte fan is familiar with the name Kemba Walker.<\/p>\n<p>He retired from the NBA and hasn&#8217;t been with the Hornets since the 2018-19 NBA season.<\/p>\n<p>That changed after he retired, because he signed a deal with Charlotte to become a player enhancement coach.<\/p>\n<p>He was also on their staff as an assistant for this year&#8217;s Summer League team.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/news\/former-laker-says-being-traded-mavericks-best-moment-career\/cca29ece6762e9f1dff085f5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0Former Laker says being traded to Mavericks was best moment of his career<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They went on to go undefeated, with a 6-0 record in Las Vegas, en route to winning this year&#8217;s Summer League title.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as significant as winning a real NBA championship, but it&#8217;s cool to see Walker was able to be a part of a team that did something Charlotte fans haven&#8217;t even sniffed in their franchise&#8217;s existence, which is winning any sort of title.<\/p>\n<p>MORE NBA NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Charlotte Hornets have won very little in their relatively short time in the NBA. They haven&#8217;t made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-16685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16685","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=16685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}