{"id":142333,"date":"2026-02-23T05:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142333\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T05:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:10:10","slug":"when-i-was-told-that-a-kid-from-schenectady-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142333\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen I was told that a kid from Schenectady, New York \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/sports\/nba\/miami-heat\/article314796806.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cWhen I was told that a kid from Schenectady, New York would be honored with a statue here in Star Plaza, the plaza of legends, I fell to my knees, humbled, and sobbed,\u201d Riley said during his speech on Sunday.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u201cWhen I was told that a kid from Schenectady, New York would be honored with a statue here in Star Plaza, the plaza of legends, I fell to my knees, humbled, and sobbed,\u201d Riley said during his speech on Sunday.<\/a> \u201cTears of joy and gratitude. That statue right there, the one they\u2019re going to unveil today, that statue right there is loaded up with all of us who took that magical journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/sports\/nba\/miami-heat\/article314796806.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Miami Herald;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Miami Herald<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen I was told that a kid from Schenectady, New York would be honored with a statue here&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50,59828],"class_list":{"0":"post-142333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news","14":"tag-schenectady"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}