{"id":24304,"date":"2003-04-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-29T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/burstein-led-to-the-cup-final\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:14:14","slug":"burstein-led-to-the-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/burstein-led-to-the-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Burstein led to the Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv will play in its 37th National Cup Final after a 83-66 win over Hapoel Samsung Tel Aviv in the semi finals. Gur Shelef led Maccabi to an excellebt start (21-7) and 21-11 at the end of the first period. But in the second half Maccabi got stuck and led by Dror Hajaj , Hapoel went on a 31-16 and took a 42-37 into the break. Their biggest lead was 44-37 but then Maccabi came back with an 18-8 run. Five consecutive pts by David Bluthenthal. put Maccabi into a 55-52 lead. The Yellow &#038; Blues opened the final quarter on 57-56. Then Tal Burstein took over and his team won the final period 26-10. Burstein finished the game with 19 pts, 5 rbds, 3 Assists &#038; 2 steals. An excellent game also for Bluthenthal with 18 pts (4-6 for three) &#038; 3 rbds. Other scorers: Shelef 16 pts, 6 rbds, 4 Assists, Vujcic 13, Goree 9, Lewis 4, Lubin 2, Sharp 2. Top scorers for Hapoel: Hajaj  16, Bulatovic 16, Keys 13. In the Final Maccabi will play Maccabi Goivat Shmuel who beat Bnei Hasharon 86-83. Top scorers for Givat Shmuel: Moshe Brenner 20, Kelly McCarthy 19. For Bnei Hasharon: Silas Mills 16. Jerrod Stevenson 15.     <\/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-24304","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\/24304","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=24304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493001,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24304\/revisions\/493001"}],"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=24304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24304"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=24304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}