{"id":117855,"date":"2026-04-13T11:51:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/the-northern-star-shai-gilgeous-alexanders-rise-to-global-stardom\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:51:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:51:37","slug":"the-northern-star-shai-gilgeous-alexanders-rise-to-global-stardom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/the-northern-star-shai-gilgeous-alexanders-rise-to-global-stardom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Northern Star: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander\u2019s Rise to Global Stardom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\nA few years ago, calling Canada a basketball country would&#8217;ve gotten you laughed out of the room. Hockey, full stop. But something shifted. Sports communities have been tracking this transformation closely, and the numbers back it up. And honestly, that shift has a name &#8211; Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Some players impress you with numbers. Others are [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/216176-the-northern-star-shai-gilgeous-alexanders-rise-to-global-stardom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Northern Star: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander\u2019s Rise to Global Stardom<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TalkBasket.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/216176-the-northern-star-shai-gilgeous-alexanders-rise-to-global-stardom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, calling Canada a basketball country would&#8217;ve gotten you laughed out of the room. Hockey, full stop. But something shifted. Sports communities have been tracking this transformation closely, and the numbers back it up. And honestly, that shift has a name &#8211; Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Some players impress you with numbers. Others are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}