{"id":565150,"date":"2026-01-28T00:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/565150\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T00:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:39:14","slug":"a-suns-game-400-kids-and-a-memory-that-lasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/565150\/","title":{"rendered":"A Suns game, 400 kids, and a memory that lasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tonight\u2019s the night. Dave King\u2019s Bright Side Night. 400+ underprivileged kids walking into a Phoenix Suns game, eyes wide, senses overloaded. The sights. The sounds. The smell of Wetzel\u2019s Pretzels and hot dogs. The kind of night that sticks with you long after the final buzzer. They\u2019ll be loud and the team will hear them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The hope is not only that they see a Suns win, but that they leave with something bigger. A memory. A spark. A feeling that this game, this team, this place belongs to them too. Who knows, maybe the next great Suns podcaster or Bright Side contributor has their origin story written tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So thank you. Truly. To everyone who donated time, money, energy, or effort to make this happen. To everyone who gave selflessly. This matters more than the box score ever will.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Before tipoff, there\u2019s a special Q and A with Suns legend and current team ambassador Rex Chapman. I\u2019ll do my best to capture the moment and bring those quotes back here to Bright Side. Nights like this are why this community exists. Thank you for making it real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonight\u2019s the night. Dave King\u2019s Bright Side Night. 400+ underprivileged kids walking into a Phoenix Suns game, eyes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,65515,6,2065,472,4045,604],"class_list":["post-565150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix-suns","tag-basketball","tag-dave-kings-bright-side-night","tag-nba","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-phoenixsuns","tag-suns"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115969941020852368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}