{"id":24162,"date":"2002-12-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/first-loss-in-the-premier-league-74-76-in-jerusalem\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T14:20:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:20:56","slug":"first-loss-in-the-premier-league-74-76-in-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/first-loss-in-the-premier-league-74-76-in-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"First loss in the Premier League, 74-76 in Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First loss this season in the Premier League and the third in four days for Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv, 74-76 in Malha vs Hapoel Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p> After the home losses to TAU Vitoria and Red Star Belgrade, there was a lot of pressure on the Maccabi players. But this did not prevent them to lead for most of the game: 25-22 at the end of the first quarter, 43-38 at half time &#038; 59-54 at the end of the third.<\/p>\n<p>  Two minutes into the final period Maccabi had a 64-54 lead but then Gerald Brown took over and Jerusalem ran 10-0, evened the score and took a 70-66 lead. Maccabi replied and made the score 74-74. Brown mad two free throws with 10 seconds to go. Derrick Sharp tried a shot from the corner, Nikola Vujcic ulled down the rebound, tried a shot, missed and then tried a tap in and found the rim.<\/p>\n<p> Brown scorer of 14 of Jerusalem\u2019s last points, was the MVP with 27 pts &#038; 4 assists. Marcus Goree was Maccabi\u2019s top player with 17 pts &#038; 6 rbds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-24162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24162","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=24162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24162"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=24162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}