{"id":53939,"date":"2025-08-08T07:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53939\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T07:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:03:11","slug":"thunder-star-shai-gilgeous-alexander-presented-key-to-hometown-of-hamilton-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53939\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander presented key to hometown of Hamilton, Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1824480 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-07-at-11.17.09\u202fPM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1038\" height=\"774\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<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>\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 lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cYou can do anything you want to do\u2026 especially if you\u2019re from Hamilton!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>All love between SGA &amp; his city at Hamilton Stadium to wrap up SGA Day! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OibiC2TVV2\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/OibiC2TVV2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1953626868437102965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 8, 2025<\/a><\/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><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 HAMILTON, Ontario (AP) \u2014 NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander received the key to the city of Hamilton from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,36247,82],"class_list":["post-53939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander-hamilton-key-city","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53939","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=53939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}