{"id":13939,"date":"2016-04-02T09:09:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T13:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=13939"},"modified":"2016-04-02T09:09:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T13:09:04","slug":"half-court-shot-nets-kia-buyer-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=13939","title":{"rendered":"Half court shot nets Kia buyer $5K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Basketball-300x291.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1324330\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Basketball-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"Basketball\" \/><\/a>There\u2019s nothing quite like the thrill and exhilaration of making a half-court shot \u2013 especially when the pressure is on. Just ask Richie Hamilton of Eddystone, who recently won $5,000 for swishing a long-distance shot at Jim Sipala\u2019s Kia of West Chester dealership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In recognition of the NCAA College Basketball Men\u2019s Division I championships held each year in March, Kia of West Chester brought a basketball hoop to their outside lot. Measuring the distance for a half-court attempt, they allowed each customer purchasing a vehicle one attempt to make a basket and win the $5,000. Hamilton took full advantage of this opportunity, draining the shot without even touching the rim!<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Once Hamilton picked out his 2013 Kia Optima, he was all set for his date with destiny. \u201cThey let me have one practice shot, and I came close. That allowed me to make adjustments,\u201d said Hamilton. \u201cI work at the post office where we sort mail, and sometimes we toss non-fragile mail from one part of the mail room to another. I think that helped me know what to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hamilton says he had such a great experience at the dealership he would have been perfectly happy even if he didn\u2019t make the long-range shot. \u201cCody (Hahn), my sales guy, was getting everyone to cheer for me, and my mother was talking to my sister on her phone when I took the shot. She hung up on her when the ball went through the net \u2013 and she started screaming for joy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kia of West Chester owner Jim Sipala couldn\u2019t be happier for Hamilton. \u201cI guess you could say we had a bit of Madness in March of our own here at the dealership,\u201d he said with a laugh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s nothing quite like the thrill and exhilaration of making a half-court shot \u2013 especially when the pressure is on. Just ask Richie Hamilton of Eddystone, who recently won $5,000 for swishing a long-distance shot at Jim Sipala\u2019s Kia of West Chester dealership. In recognition of the NCAA College Basketball Men\u2019s Division I championships held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5155,5672,4769,1908],"class_list":["post-13939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-basketball","tag-cars","tag-kia-of-west-chester","tag-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}