{"id":847905,"date":"2026-09-14T21:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847905\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T21:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:30:12","slug":"nba-rookie-ace-bailey-brings-first-hometown-basketball-camp-to-east-hamilton-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847905\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA rookie Ace Bailey brings first hometown basketball camp to East Hamilton High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. \u2014 NBA rookie and Chattanooga native Ace Bailey returned home over the weekend to host his first basketball camp at East Hamilton High School.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"WTVC\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/d7150b7f-ee95-45a4-90e2-09c5c3af0221-AQMvYKEQu2sGVNOOUyZEJ7DtE4FUTib2DGC9HoJbsPD0G4lkFCzrqHX2XCn1qVg.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The camp gave local high school players a chance to get on the court with Bailey, who says he sees himself in many of the young athletes taking part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was once one of these kids,\u201d Bailey told us.<img alt=\"WTVC\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/d8adb592-f141-4326-ab8f-a6d4f7e1f5f3-AQPpWp26cwgi8IttXzhiVtzUVmM7acptu1pHWzaINcnZw8wbuZaz9LS1Y8ohuQF.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bailey says returning to Chattanooga to give back was \u201ca blessing,\u201d especially after the community gave so much to him growing up. <\/p>\n<p>At just 20 years old, Bailey is already inspiring a new generation of local players.<\/p>\n<p>He says this first hometown camp will not be his last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. \u2014 NBA rookie and Chattanooga native Ace Bailey returned home over the weekend to host his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-847905","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\/847905","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=847905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}