{"id":365670,"date":"2026-08-07T22:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/365670\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:20:14","slug":"heat-players-dancers-join-students-for-back-to-school-shopping-spree-in-west-miami-dade-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/365670\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat players, dancers join students for back-to-school shopping spree in West Miami-Dade &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Miami Heat officials provided South Florida students a big assist before they head back to school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Players Davion Mitchell and Tre Donaldson, mascot Burnie, the Hoop Troop and the Miami Heat dancers joined several students from Advocacy Network on Disabilities for a shopping spree in West Miami-Dade. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I was young, I didn\u2019t get to be around NBA players or shop with NBA players, so just to see a smile on theirs face and do things I wish I could have had when I was younger is just an amazing feeling,\u201d said Mitchell. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students were given an iPad, a backpack and $500 gift card to pick up school supplies and accessories at Walmart. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Miami Heat officials provided South Florida students a big assist before they head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-365670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}