{"id":771862,"date":"2026-07-19T10:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771862\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T10:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:17:21","slug":"nba-player-ochai-agbaji-returns-home-to-host-youth-basketball-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771862\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA player Ochai Agbaji returns home to host youth basketball camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; Ochai Agbaji is back in his hometown \u2014 and back on the court with local kids. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The NBA player hosted his youth basketball camp for the second year, bringing dozens of young athletes together for skills drills, games and one-on-one instruction with coaches and counselors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Organizers say the camp is about more than improving jump shots and ball handling. Agbaji said he wanted to give back to the community that helped raise him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThis is what I love to do. I love to give back in any way, be around the youth, see them smile, laugh, have fun, play the game that I love and play too,\u201d Agbaji said. \u201cJust giving back&#8230;it\u2019s great to see them having fun, and that\u2019s what it\u2019s really all about here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Agbaji said camps like this helped shape him as a kid, and he hopes young players leave with new skills on the court and new role models off it.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; Ochai Agbaji is back in his hometown \u2014 and back on the court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-771862","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\/771862","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=771862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}