{"id":53600,"date":"2025-08-08T03:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T03:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53600\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T03:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T03:43:13","slug":"nba-mvp-shai-gilgeous-alexander-receives-key-to-hometown-of-hamilton-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53600\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander receives key to hometown of Hamilton, Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAMILTON, Ontario (AP) \u2014 NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 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 the Oklahoma City star will have a street named after him after capping an epic season by leading Thunder to the NBA title.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing up as I traveled across the world, to countless states, cities and countries people always asked where I was from,\u201d Gilgeous-Alexander told a raucous gathering in the north end zone after hoisting the NBA championship trophy over his head. \u201cI took pride in letting everyone know I was from Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHamilton 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\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander returned to the Stadium on 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<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HAMILTON, Ontario (AP) \u2014 NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander received the key to the city of Hamilton from Mayor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[36110,49,48,32411,3801,36111,459,905,6691,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-53600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-andrea-horwath","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-gilgeous-alexander","12":"tag-hamilton","13":"tag-hamilton-stadium","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-ontario","16":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53600","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=53600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}