Fourty eight hours before the tip-off the 2004 Euroleague Final Four, almost all preparations at the NOKIA Arena were completed and tomorrow (Wednedsay) the four contenders will have practice sessions over there.
In the space of 90 minutes this afternoon, Montepaschi Siena, Skipper Bologna & CSKA Moscow, have landed at Ben Gurion Airport. In the evening they trained in Hadar Yosef & Holon. Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv trained in Raanana.<\/p>\n
The official opening of Final Four events will take place tomorrow, at the Tel Aviv Museum of Arts – a press conference attended by: Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo Ron Huldai, CEO Euroleague Basketball Jordi Bertomeu, Maccabi Tel Aviv BC President Shimon Mizrahi, and representatives of the teams: Dusan Ivkovic & Viktor Khryapa (CSKA), Jasmin Repesa & Gianluca Basile (Skipper), Carlo Recalcati & Giacomo Galanda (Montepaschi), Pini Gershon & Gur Shelef (Maccabi).
The four teams will practice in the evening at the NOKIA Arena in the following order: Skipper, Montepaschi, CSKA, Maccabi.
The huge Media Center tent was officially opened this morning and will serve more that 300 media representatives, half of them from overseas. 40 Television stations will broadcast the games, also to the USA.
The semi finals will be played on Thursday: Skipper \u2013 Montepaschi (19:10), Maccabi \u2013 CSKA (21:40). On Friday the Final Four Official Dinner will be held at the Tel Aviv Hilton during which the Euroleague Awards Ceremony will be held.
Other events: The Kamkabel Junior International Tournament in Hadar Yosef (Thursday through Saturday with the participation of: Zalgiris Kaunas, CSKA Moscow, Montepaschi Siena, Reflex Belgrade, Hapoel Jerusalem & Maccabi Tel Aviv. A coaches clinic will be held as well the Euroleague Assembly. <\/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-24909","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\/24909","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=24909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493287,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24909\/revisions\/493287"}],"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=24909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24909"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=24909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}