{"id":223247,"date":"2024-02-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/mickey-berkowitz-is-70-years-young\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T12:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:52:41","slug":"mickey-berkowitz-is-70-years-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/mickey-berkowitz-is-70-years-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Berkowitz is 70 years young"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"responsive-video-container\" style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YML8uddmSdw\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Years In yellow &amp; blue: 16&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">1971-1975, 1976-1988<\/p>\n<p> \tTitles<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">2 European championships (1977, 1981)<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">16 Israeli championships (1972-1975, 1977-1988)&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">13 State cups (1972, 1973, 1975, 1977-1983, 1985, 1986, 1987)&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">1 Intercontinental Cup (1980)<\/p>\n<p> \tMaccabi H.O.F class of 2011&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> \tThe greatest legend among Maccabi Tel Aviv players. The eternal #9. The biggest winner of all times.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> \tGrowing up in the Maccabi&#8217;s youth department, it was clear from day one that Mickey was destined to become one of Maccabi&#8217;s all-time greats. By the age of 17 he has joined the first team and it didn&#8217;t take long for him to make a name for himself as he led Maccabi in doing what it does best &ndash; winning titles.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">In 1975, two years after the formation of one of the best duos of that decade &#8211; &#8220;Mickey-Motti&#8221;, Berkowitz traveled to the United States of America where he played college ball in Nevada. Coming back the following year, it felt like Berkowitz never left as the domestic dynasty in yellow and blue was ready to go full throttle mode as now the goal was winning Europe&#8217;s top tier competition &ndash; the champions cup (later became the EuroLeague).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> \tIn his 16 years with the crew in yellow and blue Mickey won it all &ndash; 16 championships, 13 state cups, 2 European championships and 1 intercontinental cup.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> \tIn his amazing career Mickey received personal accolades:<\/span><\/div>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">In 1979 he led the Israeli NT to its biggest accomplishment &#8211; winning the EuroBasket silver medal &ndash; and he was named as the tournament&#8217;s MVP.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">In 1991 he was honored as one of FIBA&#8217;s top 50 players.<\/span><\/li>\n<li> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">In 2011 he was inducted into Maccabi&#8217;s hall of fame.<\/span><\/li>\n<li> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">In 2017 he was inducted into FIBA&#8217;s hall of fame.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the youth department of Maccabi Tel Aviv to the highest peaks of the continent, here is what you must know about the career of the GOAT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-223247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510152,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223247\/revisions\/510152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223247"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=223247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}