{"id":218581,"date":"2026-06-13T22:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218581\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T22:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:35:08","slug":"allentowns-basketball-legend-celebrated-with-renaming-of-street-after-community-contributions-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218581\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown&#8217;s basketball legend celebrated with renaming of street after community contributions | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; Allentown honored one of their legends on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Christian wasn&#8217;t just a household name for his accomplishments on the basketball court &#8212; but also for the lives he helped shape.<\/p>\n<p>Christian played on the Allentown Jets for nine season.<\/p>\n<p>That experience inspired him to mentor younger players at the Cumberland Gardens Community Center.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t just teach them about basketball though &#8212; he taught them how to navigate life.<\/p>\n<p>The 500 Block of Hickory Street in Allentown is now, officially, Jerry Christian Way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; Allentown honored one of their legends on Saturday. Jerry Christian wasn&#8217;t just a household name&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":["post-218581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}