“The referees let them get away with physicality, especially in the fourth quarter. I’ve never seen anything like it. For two minutes, we couldn’t even get a pass through. When a team becomes overly aggressive and the other team gets sent to the line on every...
The Portland Trail Blazers defeated the Golden State Warriors 123-118 at home Wednesday night in their first preseason game ahead of the 2026-27 NBA campaign and with that it’s the perfect time for The Sports Rabbi to analyze Deni Avdija’s performance. Avdija’s...
Hapoel Holon will open its Basketball Champions League campaign on Tuesday evening when it faces French side Cholet in a “home” game in Samokov, Bulgaria. As the Purples begin a new chapter, one familiar face will be looking to play a much bigger role. Shahar Amir is...
1. You Can’t Count Maccabi Tel Aviv Out — At Least Domestically Maccabi Tel Aviv entered its Winner Cup semifinal against Hapoel Jerusalem in a crisis after opening its EuroLeague campaign 0-3. Yet, at least domestically, the Yellow-and-Blue once again showed why they...
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...
