{"id":372097,"date":"2025-12-27T00:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/372097\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T00:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:21:06","slug":"nba-all-star-tyrese-maxey-takes-part-in-2025-national-dog-show-during-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/372097\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA All-Star Tyrese Maxey takes part in 2025 National Dog Show during the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maxey was challenged with coaching two dogs through an agility obstacle course. The first dog he guided was Howie, who momentarily lost focus after Maxey dangled a toy.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024\u00a0NBA Most Improved Player regrouped and with his second attempt his new furry friend finished the course with ease.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a light-hearted moment for Maxey, who is a proud dog dad of three. Apollo, Aries, and Arrow have played an important role in his life, especially during some of the 25-year-old\u2019s most difficult times.<\/p>\n<p>On Christmas Eve in 2021,\u00a0Maxey\u2019s new home caught on fire according to <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/\" data-tracking-payload=\"{&quot;implementation_provider&quot;:&quot;sed&quot;,&quot;content_geography&quot;:&quot;AF,AX,AL,DZ,AS,AD,AO,AI,AQ,AG,AR,AM,AW,AU,AT,AZ,BS,BH,BD,BB,BY,BE,BZ,BJ,BM,BT,BO,BQ,BA,BW,BV,BR,IO,UM,VG,VI,BN,BG,BF,BI,KH,CM,CA,CV,KY,CF,TD,CL,CN,CX,CC,CO,KM,CG,CD,CK,CR,HR,CU,CW,CY,CZ,DK,DJ,DM,DO,EC,EG,SV,GQ,ER,EE,ET,FK,FO,FJ,FI,FR,GF,PF,TF,GA,GM,GE,DE,GH,GI,GR,GL,GD,GP,GU,GT,GG,GN,GW,GY,HT,HM,VA,HN,HK,HU,IS,IN,ID,CI,IR,IQ,IE,IM,IL,IT,JM,JP,JE,JO,KZ,KE,KI,KW,KG,LA,LV,LB,LS,LR,LY,LI,LT,LU,MO,MK,MG,MW,MY,MV,ML,MT,MH,MQ,MR,MU,YT,MX,FM,MD,MC,MN,ME,MS,MA,MZ,MM,NA,NR,NP,NL,NC,NZ,NI,NE,NG,NU,NF,KP,MP,NO,OM,PK,PW,PS,PA,PG,PY,PE,PH,PN,PL,PT,PR,QA,RE,RO,RU,RW,BL,SH,KN,LC,MF,PM,VC,WS,SM,ST,SA,SN,RS,SC,SL,SG,SX,SK,SI,SB,SO,ZA,GS,KR,SS,ES,LK,SD,SR,SJ,SZ,SE,CH,SY,TW,TJ,TZ,TH,TL,TG,TK,TO,TT,TN,TR,TM,TC,TV,UG,UA,AE,GB,US,UY,UZ,VU,VE,VN,WF,EH,YE,ZM,ZW,XK&quot;,&quot;content_id&quot;:&quot;25611b21-d4ed-4ce5-ba27-ee99a12cd28b&quot;,&quot;content_release_date_local_utc&quot;:&quot;2025-12-26T23:13:39.652Z&quot;,&quot;content_title&quot;:&quot;Basketball: NBA All-Star Tyrese Maxey takes part in 2025 National Dog Show during the holidays&quot;,&quot;tag&quot;:&quot;[\\&quot;discipline-basketball\\&quot;,\\&quot;gender-male\\&quot;,\\&quot;newsclip\\&quot;,\\&quot;klay-thompson\\&quot;,\\&quot;content-context-article-regwall-metered-f2f\\&quot;,\\&quot;noc-us\\&quot;]&quot;,&quot;module_type&quot;:&quot;TextBlock&quot;,&quot;module_title&quot;:&quot;Basketball: NBA All-Star Tyrese Maxey takes part in 2025 National Dog Show during the holidays&quot;,&quot;section_level_1&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;section_level_2&quot;:&quot;basketball-nba-all-star-tyrese-maxey-takes-part-in-2025-national-dog-show-during-the-holidays&quot;,&quot;discipline&quot;:&quot;discipline-basketball&quot;,&quot;odf_id&quot;:&quot;BKB&quot;,&quot;module_instance&quot;:&quot;Inline&quot;,&quot;module_id&quot;:null}\" data-tracking=\"click\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN.com<\/a>. He shared that his dog, Apollo, stayed close and comforted him during the recovery process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maxey was challenged with coaching two dogs through an agility obstacle course. The first dog he guided was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-372097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372097","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=372097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}