{"id":53418,"date":"2025-08-08T02:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53418\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T02:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:02:09","slug":"shai-gilgeous-alexander-receives-key-to-hometown-in-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53418\/","title":{"rendered":"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander receives key to hometown in Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAMILTON, Ontario &#8212; NBA MVP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4278073\/shai-gilgeous-alexander\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> received the key to the city of Hamilton from Mayor Andrea Horwath at a public rally Thursday at Hamilton Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Horwath also announced that the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"bd458c44-2d33-47eb-cebc-35d3d4ac595c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/okc\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> star will have a street named after him after capping an epic season by leading the team to the NBA title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Growing up as I traveled across the world, to countless states, cities and countries people always asked where I was from,&#8221; Gilgeous-Alexander told a raucous gathering in the north end zone after hoisting the NBA championship trophy over his head. &#8220;I took pride in letting everyone know I was from Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hamilton is different from every other city in Ontario. Hamiltonians carry a different sense of grit, determination, pride and energy than the rest of the province and honestly, I couldn&#8217;t shy away from that. I carry that with me every day and everywhere I go so you guys can only imagine how (much) overwhelming joy there was when I found out I was getting a key to the city I love and a street named after me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander returned to the stadium Thursday night. He was honored to start the second quarter of the CFL game between the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the B.C. Lions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HAMILTON, Ontario &#8212; NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander received the key to the city of Hamilton from Mayor Andrea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-53418","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\/53418","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=53418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}