{"id":24358,"date":"2003-07-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-06T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/eurolegue-ceo-we-open-the-season-in-tel-aviv-and-here-we-will-close-it\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:14:18","slug":"eurolegue-ceo-we-open-the-season-in-tel-aviv-and-here-we-will-close-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/eurolegue-ceo-we-open-the-season-in-tel-aviv-and-here-we-will-close-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurolegue CEO: We open the season in Tel Aviv and here we will close it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is a special thing for us to be in Tel Aviv because of the importance of Maccabi Tel Aviv Basketball Club to the Euroleague and to European basketball in general&#8221;. These were the words of Mr. Jordi Bertomeu, Chief Executive Office of the Euroleague in a press conference this evening in the Hilton Hotel in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p> Bertomeu and all the Euroleague staff, are in Tel Aviv for the Regular Season draw to be held tomorrow. Bertomeu said:&#8221;We open the 2003\/04 season in Tel Aviv and we will close it here with the Final Four&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> He also explained that it was his decision to move last season&#8217;s games vs Virtus Bologna &#038; Benetton Treviso from Tel Aviv to Thessaloniki because of the war in Iraq. &#8220;It was a very hard decision to take and I hope we will not have yo make the same decisions any more&#8221;.<\/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-24358","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\/24358","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=24358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493019,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24358\/revisions\/493019"}],"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=24358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24358"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=24358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}