Cover Credit: Yehuda Halickman Maor Sela is the next big thing in Israeli basketball. Period. Born October 2010, the 15-year-old big man, who played for both Maccabi Tel Aviv’s U16 and U18 teams last season, stands at 6’8” and can do absolutely incredible things with...
An unimaginable tragedy in Israeli basketball, Raz Adam, who played for the Israel national team and currently Hapoel Galil Elyon, was killed in a car accident at the age of 26 years old. Adam, born in 1999, had been one of Israel’s top basketball players over the...
“I feel like I’m just so happy for the guys. We worked so hard. We had our ups and downs and it wasn’t an easy year for us. But coming here to a play-in game, beating the seventh seed and making the playoffs, it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me in my career...
Like everyone who watched the historic matchup between Portland’s Deni Avdija and Brooklyn’s Ben Saraf and Danny Wolf, I was on edge. The tension came from the fact that while Avdija and Wolf were in the starting lineup, Saraf who had been questionable but was...
“We were like dreamers.” Psalm 126 The Portland Trail Blazers defeated the Brooklyn Nets 114–95 on the road Monday night at the Barclays Center in a historic matchup that featured three Israelis in the NBA and not just any Israelis, All Star Deni Avdija along with...
International Women’s Day is this Sunday March 8th. Over the years, women have held senior roles in Israeli men’s basketball, but they are not many but hopefully more will follow in their footsteps. One of them is Noa Konfino. This season, Konfino known in Israeli...
Maccabi Tel Aviv and Bnei Herzliya will take the court tonight (Thursday, 9:00 PM) at Yad Eliyahu for the State Cup Final. On paper, Maccabi are the clear favorites, but Herzliya have a tradition in the competition, having won it twice, most recently in 2022. The man...
Our own Moshe Halickman wrote a stellar piece for the JTA about Deni Avdija and what it means for the Israeli to have been selected to the NBA All-Star Game: Deni Avdija being named an NBA All-Star reserve is an unbelievable achievement in the mind of every Israeli...
Cover Credit: Yehuda Halickman Ben Saraf was selected as the 26th pick of the 2025 NBA Draft by the Brooklyn Nets, an accomplishment that has turned him into the first Israeli Guard to be selected in the first round of the Draft. In the summer of 2024, after capturing...
Deni Avdija did it again. This time however, the Israeli sensation showed exactly what he can do on National Television across the United States which was witnessed by the likes of Grant Hill, Shaquille O’Neil, who compared him to Toni Kukoc and many others. The...
