{"id":25680,"date":"2005-10-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/the-magic-brings-maccabi-back-to-earth\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:17:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:17:37","slug":"the-magic-brings-maccabi-back-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/the-magic-brings-maccabi-back-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magic brings Maccabi back to earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv will return home tomorrow heads high in spite of the 79-93 loss in Orlando vs the Magic. Once more Pini Gershon\u2019s players had a good &#038; solid game vs an NBA team that displayed all their top players. This was Maccabi\u2019s first defeat in preseason games and they are now 8-1. <br \/> Maccabi started impressively ans led 20-10 &#038; 26-21. But at the end of the first quarter the Magic held a 29-28 lead. An excellent game by Anthony Parker, Will Solomon &#038; Derrick Sharp kept Maccabi in the game (44-44) and at half time the host led 51-45. <br \/> The Yellows took a 56-55 lead in the third with a Sharp\u2019s three pointer. But the Magic played some strong defense and ran 17-3 to take a 72-59 leas and 73-62 at the end of the third. Baston was fouled out with 4.24 minutes to go. Maccabi reduced the margin to 79-85 but Steve Francis and his team mates ran 8-0 and assured their victory. <br \/> Maccabi scorers: Parker 20, Solomon 19 (3 three pointers), Baston 16, Sharp 12 (3 three pointers), Vujcic 8, Burstein 2, Penney 2. Green played but did not score <br \/>. Top scorers for Orlando: Francic 20, Howard 16, Turkoglu 11, Hill 10 pts.  <\/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-25680","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\/25680","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=25680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493653,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25680\/revisions\/493653"}],"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=25680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25680"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=25680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}