{"id":25629,"date":"2005-09-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/burstein-shelef-stunned-spain\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:17:24","slug":"burstein-shelef-stunned-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/burstein-shelef-stunned-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Burstein &#038; Shelef stunned Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Israel National Team assured its place in the playoffs of the European Basketball Championship with a stunning 85-77 win over Spain in Novi Sad. This is one of the greatest wins ever for the Israeli team. <br \/> Tal Burstein &#038; Gur Shelef were the top players. Burstein played 37 minutes, scored 19 pts, pulled down 4 rbds &#038; made 5 assists. Shelef had 15 pts, 2 rbds &#038; 3 assists. Yaniv Geeen scored 11 pts &#038; Yotam Halperin 5 pts. <br \/> Israel&#8217;s opponents in the playoffs on Tuesday in Belgrade (21:30) will be Greece. Serbia beat Latvia 82-67 and will face France. <br \/> Nikola Vujcic scored 20 pts for Croatia  in the 80-67 over Turkey and will now play Italy. Germany will play Turkey. Four teams have already qualified for the quarter finals: Russia, Lithuania, Slovenia &#038; Spain.<\/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-25629","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\/25629","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=25629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493619,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25629\/revisions\/493619"}],"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=25629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25629"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=25629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}