{"id":26970,"date":"2025-07-21T20:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/26970\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:54:07","slug":"city-of-hamilton-to-hold-shai-rally-day-for-nba-champion-gilgeous-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/26970\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Hamilton to hold &#8216;Shai Rally Day&#8217; for NBA champion Gilgeous-Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A celebration of Gilgeous-Alexander will be held Thursday, Aug. 7, and is dubbed as &#8220;Shai Rally Day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old won the NBA&#8217;s MVP award, the regular-season scoring title, NBA Finals MVP and his first NBA title with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"oklahoma-city-thunder\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> this past season. He&#8217;s the second Canadian in NBA history to win league MVP, joining Steve Nash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was also awarded best male athlete at the ESPYs last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration will include a free public rally at 3:30 p.m. at Hamilton Stadium, with Mayor Andrea Horwath presenting Gilgeous-Alexander with the key to the city.<\/p>\n<p>Later that day, he will be recognized during the Hamilton Tiger-Cats&#8217; home game against the B.C. Lions at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m absolutely thrilled to bring Shai Rally Day to Hamilton,&#8221; Horwath said in a release. &#8220;This is our city\u2019s official celebration of NBA Champion, NBA MVP, NBA Finals MVP, NBA Scoring Champion, ESPY Best Athlete \u2013 Men\u2019s Sports, and proud Hamiltonian, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A celebration of Gilgeous-Alexander will be held Thursday, Aug. 7, and is dubbed as &#8220;Shai Rally Day.&#8221; The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-26970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}