{"id":11050,"date":"2021-12-02T15:28:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=11050"},"modified":"2022-07-25T15:34:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:34:11","slug":"chris-denari-83-inducted-into-hamilton-county-basketball-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2021\/12\/02\/chris-denari-83-inducted-into-hamilton-county-basketball-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Denari &#8217;83 inducted into Hamilton County Basketball Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/broadcaster_pages_2011_photo_chris.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/broadcaster_pages_2011_photo_chris.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11051\" width=\"201\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/broadcaster_pages_2011_photo_chris.jpg 339w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/broadcaster_pages_2011_photo_chris-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Chris Denari<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris Denari &#8217;83, a Westfield High School graduate, was recently inducted into the Hamilton County Basketball Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Denari played for his father, Coach Bob Denari and was an outstanding player for the Shamrocks. He was twice named to the All-Rangeline Conference team, and was also named to the Noblesville Daily Ledger\u2019s All-County team. Denari was also selected to the Academic All-State team by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt means a lot,\u201d Denari in a <a href=\"https:\/\/readthereporter.com\/westfield-graduate-chris-denari-inducted-into-hamilton-county-basketball-hall-of-fame\/\">Hamilton County Reporter article<\/a>. \u201cI only wish my dad was here to see it, but my mom is here. It\u2019s really neat. Hamilton County has produced so many outstanding basketball players. It\u2019s just a real thrill to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While at Wabash, Denari was a two-year letter winner and was inducted into the Wabash College Hall of Fame in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Denari has been the television play-by-play announcer for the Indiana Pacers for the past 16 years, and also called games for the Indiana Fever and Butler University men\u2019s basketball team for 17 years. He is a member of the Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame and was named the organization\u2019s Broadcaster of the Year in 2004. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Denari &#8217;83, a Westfield High School graduate, was recently inducted into the Hamilton County Basketball Hall of Fame. Denari played for his father, Coach Bob Denari and was an outstanding player [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/broadcaster_pages_2011_photo_chris.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11052,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11050\/revisions\/11052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}