{"id":124717,"date":"2021-09-06T02:36:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T02:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=124717"},"modified":"2021-09-06T05:57:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T05:57:53","slug":"mills-given-stunning-heros-welcome-on-torres-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=124717","title":{"rendered":"Mills given stunning hero&#039;s welcome on Torres Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\/boomers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Boomers\">Boomers<\/a> hero <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/basketball\/patty-mills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Patty Mills\">Patty Mills<\/a> has been given a stunning welcome home to the Torres Strait Islands, swamped by family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n<p>Mills was a driving force behind Australia&#x27;s bronze medal triumph at the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Tokyo Olympics\">Tokyo Olympics<\/a> in what was the Boomers&#x27; first ever Games medal.<\/p>\n<p>As a senior member of the team, Mills was instrumental in instilling a strong appreciation of those Boomers that came before them and spoke passionately about what the victory meant for basketball in the country going forward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matt__nicholls\/status\/1434414147618295813\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/matt__nicholls\/status\/1434414147618295813<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a proud Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal man who has always been vocal about what his Indigenous culture means to him, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/basketball\/nba-patty-mills-brooklyn-nets-free-agency-move-from-san-antonio-spurs\/d3b7baae-e677-438a-9ede-5df46ce0338d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"the NBA star\">the NBA star<\/a> was keen to continue the bronze medal celebrations with loved ones back in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old had hundreds of supporters waiting for him as his boat arrived on Thursday Island in incredible scenes.<\/p>\n<p>His parents and wife were among those there with him as locals posed for photos and requested autographs with Australia&#x27;s Olympic flagbearer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CTbLEaAj78l\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-instagram\" data-show-caption=\"true\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CTbLEaAj78l\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Boomers hero Patty Mills has been given a stunning welcome home to the Torres Strait Islands, swamped by family, friends and fans. Mills was a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=124717\" title=\"Mills given stunning hero&#039;s welcome on Torres Strait\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124719,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124717\/revisions\/124719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}