{"id":24370,"date":"2003-07-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/new-signing-maceo-baston\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:14:20","slug":"new-signing-maceo-baston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/new-signing-maceo-baston\/","title":{"rendered":"New signing: Maceo Baston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maceo Baston will be the new player at the forward\/center position for Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv. Baston signed today with the club for the 2003\/04 and 2004\/05 seasons.<\/p>\n<p> Baston, a forward\/center 2.06 m tall, was born on 29\/05\/75 in Corsicana, Texas. Graduate of the University of Michigan. Selected in the 1998 NBA Draft by Chicago Bulls (#58). Played two seasons for Quad city Thunders in the CBA alongside Anthony Parker. Was named best defensive player of the league.<\/p>\n<p> Joined Italian Club SC Montecatini for the 2000\/01 season where he averaged 20.3 pts, 8.5 rbds &#038; 1.8 bsts.<\/p>\n<p> Moved to Joventut Badalona in the Spanish League for the 2000\/02 season and ended the season with averages of 15.9 pts, 6.6 rbds &#038; 1.9 bsst.<\/p>\n<p> Started the 2002\/03 season with Joventut and played 9 games in the ULRB Cup where he averaged 16.1 pts, 6.7 rbds &#038; 2.1 bsts.<\/p>\n<p> In February 2003 moved to Toronto Raptors of the NBA as replacement to the imnjured Nate Huffman. Played 16 gamed with the following averages: 2.2 pts &#038; 1.4 rbds. Lately played for the Raptors in the Summer League in Long Beach where he averaged 9.3 pts &#038; 4.00 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-24370","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\/24370","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=24370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493027,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24370\/revisions\/493027"}],"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=24370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24370"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=24370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}