Hapoel Tel Aviv’s tremendous victory over Panathinaikos on Friday night brought back memories of another era back to the 2024/25 season, when it was still acceptable to call Dimitrios Itoudis’ team a Cinderella story (while also describing it as a Galacticos-style...
Even if we take the final 30 seconds of last night’s game at Valencia’s arena into account (and we don’t necessarily have to), one thing still needs to be said: Maccabi Tel Aviv deserved its win over the Spanish side in orange. It’s an achievement shared by only one...
The talent gap Hapoel Tel Aviv had over Red Star Belgrade last night, with the Reds in white, produced run after run throughout the evening. The final one was enough to secure Hapoel’s first win of the season at Belgrade Arena. The talent advantage in Dimitris...
Enough time has passed, the dust has settled and I’ve just returned from a football trip to England that might still be talked about on this site for a while, so it finally feels like the right moment to summarize Hapoel Tel Aviv’s debut EuroLeague season....
Facundo Campazzo was once again everything Hapoel Tel Aviv simply isn’t in this series. The veteran point guard came out again and delivered a masterclass of precision and efficiency, a display of individual skill and team intelligence, a concert of composure and...
In Part A, we went over various ambitious sports projects involving Messi and Ronaldo and saw that it’s not so simple to build a “Galacticos” team that will conquer Europe overnight. In Part B, we’ll start getting closer to projects that more closely resemble the...
I’ll open with an important life tip: always make sure money is the means, not the goal. Don’t think you’ve stumbled onto an article about mindfulness or Buddhismת I’m here to talk about basketball, among other things. I’m not knowledgeable about, interested in, or...
Thursday comes around yet again and here we are at the 8888 Arena in Sofia. Once again against a super-team that came all the way from Athens but feels completely at home. Once again a close game. Once again a 4-point margin, but not in the right direction for Hapoel...
In the spirit of Passover, there’s no question that Hapoel Tel Aviv put in some hard labor to pick up the victory over Panathinaikos and in the spirit of the ongoing tensions with Iran, we might even hear one of the club’s leaders declare that this was “a victory that...
Another EuroLeague night, another emotional rollercoaster in the amusement park that is Maccabi Tel Aviv’s 2025/26 season. It started as an evening that saw the yellow-and-blue dancing on the court in Belgrade, continued with a muddy trench battle that slowly eroded...
