READING, Pa. – Former Reading Red Knight and current NBA player Lonnie Walker wrapped up his latest basketball camp in Reading Tuesday and then he received a big honor.<\/p>\n
Mayor Eddie Moran presented Walker with the Key to the City. The mayor says Walker continues to show he is truly “Just a kid From Reading.”\u00a0Moran tells 69 News he fought back tears as he was giving Walker the Key to the City.<\/p>\n
Lonnie Walker’s basketball camp was held at the gym at Reading High School.\u00a0There was a large round of applause and many children rushed up to Walker to congratulate him afterwards when he was given the key.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Walker says the goal is to influence someone. Mayor Moran told the audience that Walker has unified this city and is someone that everyone can look up to.<\/p>\n
Walker of course will be suiting up for the Lakers this season after playing for the Spurs for the past few years.<\/p>\n
He graduated from Reading High School in 2017 after leading the school to first-ever state title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – Former Reading Red Knight and current NBA player Lonnie Walker wrapped up his latest basketball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2005,105995,736,128,130,129,45398],"class_list":["post-310606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-eddie-moran","tag-lonnie-walker","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310606","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=310606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}