{"id":7397,"date":"2023-02-02T15:53:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T15:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=7397"},"modified":"2023-02-02T15:53:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T15:53:30","slug":"elysian-avenue-becomes-dennis-hopson-way-in-honor-the-basketball-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/02\/elysian-avenue-becomes-dennis-hopson-way-in-honor-the-basketball-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Elysian Avenue Becomes Dennis Hopson Way in Honor the Basketball Star"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hopson with Councilmembers John Hobbs, Tiffany Preston Whitman, Cerssandra McPherson and Katie Moline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Truth Staff<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

On a very cold Saturday afternoon, a large crowd of Dennis Hopson supporters gathered at the corner of Elysian Avenue and Dorr Street to witness the unveiling of a new street sign \u2013 a street sign designating Elysian as Dennis Hopson Way.<\/p>\n

Such honors happen frequently in Toledo but the size of the crowd that gathered on Saturday to honor Hopson was truly unprecedented.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been working on this a long time,\u201d said Toledo Councilman John Hobbs, III, a childhood friend of Hopson and the driving force behind the honor for the Lourdes University Men\u2019s Basketball Coach of naming the street where Hopson\u2019s childhood home was located.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday is an example to young men \u2026 and women \u2026 that there is another way,\u201d Hobbs continued while addressing the large crowd containing Hopson\u2019s family and friends, various teammates from past years, his Lourdes basketball team, Lourdes colleagues an staff and elected officials.<\/p>\n

Hopson, a 1982 Bowsher graduate, the all-time leading scorer in Ohio State University history and an NBA champion with the Chicago Bulls, became coach of Lourdes Gray Wolves men\u2019s basketball team in 2019 and led the team to a conference tournament championship in the 2021-22 season. The team is 10-4 so far this year in conference play and 16-6 overall.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cOf all the places Coach Hopson could have lived, he came back to Toledo,\u201d said Hobbs of the athletic hero whose playing days took him to New Jersey, Chicago, Sacramento and overseas to Spain, France, the Philippines, Turkey, Israel and Venezuela. Hopson\u2019s coaching years were spent in West Palm Beach, Florida, Bowling Green State University, Bedford High School in Temperance, Michigan before he returned home to Toledo.<\/p>\n

Before uncovering the new street sign, Hopson thanked those in the audience profusely for helping him every step of the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thank each and every one of you,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s really not about me, it\u2019s about what we can do for each other \u2026 if I was able to do it, it can be dome because of the people I had around me.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can be done,\u201d Hopson continued. \u201cIt\u2019s all what you put into it. I think doing the right thing and putting the energy and the time and the dedication and commitment into your craft, then anything can happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Truth Staff On a very cold Saturday afternoon, a large crowd of Dennis Hopson supporters gathered at the corner of Elysian Avenue and Dorr Street to witness the unveiling of a new street sign \u2013 a street sign designating Elysian as Dennis Hopson Way. Such honors happen frequently in Toledo but the size of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[160],"class_list":["post-7397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7402,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions\/7402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7397"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=7397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}