{"id":25668,"date":"2005-10-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/today-1900-in-toronto-raptors-vs-maccabi\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:17:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:17:34","slug":"today-1900-in-toronto-raptors-vs-maccabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/today-1900-in-toronto-raptors-vs-maccabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Today  (19:00) in Toronto \u2013 Raptors vs Maccabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv will play this evening (Sunday, 16\/10\/05) at the Air Canada Center their 11th game vs an NBA team when then they meet the Toronto Raptors (13:00 Toronto time, 19:00 in Israel). The game will be broadcasted on Channel 10 stating at 23:00. <br \/> The Washington Bullets, then World Champions, were the first team to face Maccabi in 1978 in Tel Aviv with the Israeli champions winning 98-97. Maccabi played four times in the USA vs Philadelphia, Miami, Los Angels Lakers &#038; Los Angeles Clippers. The six other games were played in Tel Aviv, the last one in October 1999 vs the Miami Heat. Maccabi won four of the ten games. <br \/> The Euroleague Champions arrived in Toronto on Friday morning and held two practice sessions. . The players &#038; coaches take the game seriously and are looking for another win. It will be a specials occasion for Maceo Baston who will face the team he played for before joining Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv. The organizers expect a full house of 19,000 for Sunday&#8217;s game. <br \/>  The Raptors lost last night their second preseason game, 100-107 vs Boston Celtics. Their starting line up included: Mike James (1.88) who scored 20 pts &#038; handed 4 asists. Mat Bonner (2.08) with 16 pts &#038; 5 rbds, Chris Bosh with 12 pts, 6 rbds &#038; 4 bsts, Jalen Rose (2.03) with 11 pts &#038; Brazilian Rafael Araujo (2.11) with 7 pts. Charlie Villenueva (2.11) came off the bench with 17 pts &#038; 6 rbds. A familiar name is Spaniard Jose Calderon, who played for TAU Vitoria in last season&#8217;s Euroleague Final in Moscow when they were beaten by Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv. Head Coach of the Raptors is Sam Mitchell.<br \/>  In the meantime Sarunas Jasikevicius is doing well with the Indiana Pacers in the preseason games. Saras was a starter in the 93-84 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves. He played 24 min, scored 9 pts, made 2 assists &#038; 2 steals.  <\/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-25668","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\/25668","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=25668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493645,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25668\/revisions\/493645"}],"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=25668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25668"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=25668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}