{"id":22952,"date":"2025-08-07T21:12:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/shai-gilgeous-alexander-key-to-hamilton-and-street-in-his-honor\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T21:12:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:12:31","slug":"shai-gilgeous-alexander-key-to-hamilton-and-street-in-his-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/shai-gilgeous-alexander-key-to-hamilton-and-street-in-his-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: Key to Hamilton and street in his honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Receives the Keys to Hamilton and Honors for His NBA Success<\/h2>\n\nIn a moving ceremony held at Hamilton Stadium, NBA star and Most Valuable Player (MVP), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, was presented with the key to the city by Mayor Andrea Horwath.\n\nThe event, which took place on Thursday, also revealed that a street will bear his name, a tribute to his outstanding season leading the Thunder towards the NBA championship.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;I grew up traveling all over the world, to countless states, cities, and countries, and people always asked me where I was from,&#8221; commented Gilgeous-Alexander before an euphoric crowd in the north scoring zone, after lifting the NBA champion trophy.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe player expressed pride in representing Hamilton, highlighting the city&#8217;s uniqueness and the spirit of its inhabitants.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;Hamilton is unlike any other city in Ontario, Hamiltonians have a different sense of grit, determination, pride, and energy than the rest of the province and, frankly, I couldn&#8217;t help but embrace that. I carry it with me every day and everywhere I go, so you can only imagine the overwhelming joy I felt when I learned I was going to receive the key to the city I love and a street named after me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<cite>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nGilgeous-Alexander, visibly emotional, returned to the stadium on Thursday night, where he had the honor of starting the second quarter of the CFL game between the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the B.C. Lions.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Receives the Keys to Hamilton and Honors for His NBA Success In a moving ceremony held at Hamilton Stadium, NBA star and Most Valuable Player (MVP), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, was presented with the key to the city by Mayor Andrea Horwath. The event, which took place on Thursday, also revealed that a street will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[5226,103,918,913],"class_list":{"0":"post-22952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-hamilton","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","11":"tag-thunder"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}