{"id":24418,"date":"2003-09-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-07T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/burstein-led-to-a-great-win-over-latvia\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:14:26","slug":"burstein-led-to-a-great-win-over-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/burstein-led-to-a-great-win-over-latvia\/","title":{"rendered":"Burstein led to a great win over Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Israel National Team this evening brat Latvia 91-75 and qualified to the next stage of the European Championship. Tomorrow they will play Slovenia in the city of Lulea for a place in the 1\/4 finals.<BR> Israel played brilliantly in the first half, led by Tal Burstein who scored 19 pts by half time. Burstein was the MVP with 21 pts (3-5 for three), 8 rebound &#038; 6 assists. Captain Yoav Saffar scored 16 pts (4-6 for three). Derrick Sharp had 13 pts (3-4 for three), Gur Shelef 7 pts, 5 assists &#038; 4 rbds &#038; Yotam Halperin 2 pts.<BR> Sarunas Jasikevicius, who will join Maccabi after the Championship, scored 14 pts &#038; handed 9 assists in Lithuania crushing 93-71 win over Germany and a place in the 1\/4 finals.<BR> <\/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-24418","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\/24418","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=24418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493059,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24418\/revisions\/493059"}],"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=24418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24418"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=24418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}