{"id":12029,"date":"2024-01-14T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T20:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=12029"},"modified":"2024-01-14T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T20:41:07","slug":"steven-izzo-gets-emotional-talking-about-his-first-career-basket-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=12029","title":{"rendered":"Steven Izzo gets emotional talking about his first career basket (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Steven Izzo got emotional while talking about his first career bucket as a Spartan on Sunday afternoon against Rutgers.<\/h2>\n<p>Sunday was a special day for Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo, the fans, and Steven Izzo especially.<\/p>\n<p>After being scoreless for four years as a Spartan, <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/steven-izzo-scores-first-career-points-on-wild-and-one-video\/\">Steven finally got into the scoring column<\/a> with a crazy and-one. The senior walk-on drove to the basket, threw up a shot while getting hit, and it dropped in for his first career bucket as the crowd went insane.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did the crowd go wild but Izzo&#8217;s teammates rushed him while he laid on the floor and celebrated with him like he just hit a 30-footer at the buzzer to win the game. It was quite the sight.<\/p>\n<p>But the best sight was probably Steven sharing a moment with his dad. They shared a smile, an embrace, and a couple of high-fives after the and-one dropped and Steven talked about the moment after the game. He was incredibly emotional about the basket and you know that it had been a long time coming for the walk-on.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Memories that will last a lifetime \ud83d\udc9a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jY4KJahvpF\">pic.twitter.com\/jY4KJahvpF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michigan State Men&#39;s Basketball (@MSU_Basketball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSU_Basketball\/status\/1746617909273907522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hearing just how much this meant to Steven was pretty cool. Knowing that this is what he&#8217;s wanted for a long time and finally scoring has everyone rooting for him. Seeing him get emotional about it made this moment even more special.<\/p>\n<p>Steven is a great team player and gives it his all as a morale guy and during practice throughout the week. And you could see how much this meant to Tom as well as Steven&#8217;s teammates. They all went insane after the basket went in and he completed the three-point play and that had to make Steven even more emotional.<\/p>\n<p>It felt like we had been waiting an eternity for Izzo to score, but it finally happened and a weight has been lifted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This meant the world to Steven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[190,189,504,429],"class_list":["post-12029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news","tag-steven-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}