1. Maccabi Didn't Show Up Maccabi Tel Aviv can talk all it wants before EuroLeague games about how winning is a must, but the team has done little to demonstrate that on the court. After opening the season with a road loss to ASVEL, Maccabi was thoroughly outclassed...
Hapoel Tel Aviv begins their second season in the Euroleague and will look to duplicate the success they had on their debut year which saw the reds finish in fifth place in the standings. By advancing to the playoffs, Dimitrios Itoudis’s team secured for themselves a...
Roman Sorkin has been considered the best Israeli basketball player in the Premier League for several years now and certainly the most influential. He demonstrated that once again in Thursday’s Super Cup game against Hapoel Tel Aviv, as the Maccabi Tel Aviv star...
The Israel National Basketball Team will begin the first and crucial window of the second stage of the World Cup Qualifiers on Thursday, 21:00 (Israel time) when it will play a home away from home game against Poland in Riga. It will then face the host nation Latvia...
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...
