{"id":14261,"date":"2014-05-18T17:13:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T23:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=14261"},"modified":"2014-05-19T21:09:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T03:09:53","slug":"maccabi-becomes-europes-new-basketball-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/maccabi-becomes-europes-new-basketball-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Maccabi Becomes Europe&#8217;s New Basketball Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By ANAV SILVERMAN<\/p>\n<p>MILAN (Tazpit News Agency) &#8211; &#8211; For 10,000 Israeli fans that filled the Mediolanum Forum Arena in Milan, Italy, Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv\u2019s win against Spain\u2019s Real Madrid was a sweet victory.<\/p>\n<p>The championship game hit overtime with the final score 98-86, as Israel managed to cement a solid lead in the final five minutes of the game. This is Maccabi Tel Aviv\u2019s sixth Euroleague championship title in the club\u2019s history, with the last one won in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>After a thrilling and unexpected victory against Russia\u2019s CSKA Moscow by just one point on Friday night in the Euroleague Final Four, Israel managed to surprise fans again on Sunday night, after defeating the highly favored Real Madrid.\u00a0 Tel Aviv\u2019s scoring was led by Guard Tyrese Rice with 26\u00a0 points.<\/p>\n<p>Coached by Israeli American, David Blatt, the coach described Israel\u2019s position in an interview before the Real Madrid game, \u201cbut if I\u2019m not mistaken, David was an underdog against Goliath.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Shimon Peres called Coach Blatt right after the game ended to congratulate him, jokingly saying that the intense game almost gave him a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire country is in yellow,\u201d said the 90-year-old Peres, referring to Maccabi\u2019s blue and yellow colored uniforms. The official Euroleage website described Milan decked in yellow as well following the Maccabi win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so happy. We have brought so much honor to the country and to Maccabi fans especially. We never wavered and I\u2019m so proud of everyone,\u201d responded a very pleased Coach Blatt.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Maccabi%20Becomes%20Europe%27s%20New%20Basketball%20Champions\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[1009,5438,8781,8790,8795,5439,8788,412],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14283,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14261\/revisions\/14283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}