{"id":25830,"date":"2006-01-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/tonight-vs-efes-pilsen-for-top-place-in-the-group\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:18:06","slug":"tonight-vs-efes-pilsen-for-top-place-in-the-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/tonight-vs-efes-pilsen-for-top-place-in-the-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight vs Efes Pilsen for top place in the group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t       Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv will tonight (NOKIA Arena, 20:40) start a series of four games to establish the final standings in Group B of the Euroleague Regular Season.  Maccabi will play Efes Pilsen Istanbul with both teams on a 7-3 record. The third team at the top, Lietuvos Rytas, lost last night 63-65 in Piraeus vs Olympiacos and is now on 7-4. On November 24 in Istanbul, Maccabi lost 88-90 to Efes Pilsen who holds a 9-5 record vs Maccabi in European competitions. Furthermore \u2013 the Turks won three of the last four games in Tel Aviv, including 78-76 on their last visit on February 2002. In the loss in Istanbul, Maceo Baston led Maccabi with 29 pts &#038; 9 rbds. Will Solomon, playing against the team he played for last season, scored 28 pts. Top scorers for Efes Pilsen were Marco Popovic 21 &#038; Henry Domercant 19 pts. In another game in group B, Armani Jeans Milano beat Cibona Zagreb 84-64.  \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the loss of Lietuvos Rytas in Piraeus last night, a win for Maccabi will give them first place in Group B. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-25830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25830","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=25830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493707,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25830\/revisions\/493707"}],"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=25830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25830"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=25830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}