{"id":591974,"date":"2023-01-28T10:01:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T10:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=591974"},"modified":"2023-02-07T09:15:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T09:15:55","slug":"st-georges-retires-hyland-s-no-5-during-denver-nuggets-guard-s-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/st-georges-retires-hyland-s-no-5-during-denver-nuggets-guard-s-homecoming","title":{"rendered":"St. Georges retires Hyland&#8217;s No. 5 during Denver Nuggets guard&#8217;s homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nah&#8217;Shon &#8220;Bizzy Bones&#8221; Hyland stood at a podium erected on the gym floor where he first became familiar to Delaware high school sports followers Friday night. Unlike previous ventures on the St. Georges basketball court, Hyland was unsure which direction to go. He made the rare confession of being at a loss for words. But, really, with humility and pride showing, he&#8217;d already uttered the perfect account of a night set aside to honor him. &#8220;This is bigger than basketball,&#8221; Hyland told the packed gym, where his St. Georges&#8217; jersey No. 5 had just been retired not quite four years after his final game in it. Favorite son The Denver Nuggets, with whom Hyland is a second-year guard, visit the Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday afternoon in an NBA game, so Hyland was in the neighborhood. And since he is a product of his neighborhoods &#8211; those in Wilmington where he grew up and learned to play basketball and the one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nah&#8217;Shon &#8220;Bizzy Bones&#8221; Hyland stood at a podium erected on the gym floor where he first became familiar to Delaware high school sports followers Friday night. Unlike previous ventures on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}