{"id":26065,"date":"2006-06-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/to-go-past-nahariya-and-prepare-for-the-final\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:18:39","slug":"to-go-past-nahariya-and-prepare-for-the-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/to-go-past-nahariya-and-prepare-for-the-final\/","title":{"rendered":"To go past Nahariya and prepare for the Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                               The Final Four games, to determine the 2005\/06 Super League champions, will open tomorrow, Tuesday at the NOKIA Arena with Hapoel Migdal Jerusalem playing Maccabi Rishon Letsion (18:15).Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv will play Ironi Iscar Nahariya in the second semi final (20:50). This is the first season since 1954 that the champions will be decided at the end of a Final Four. This system has already been criticized by most Super League coaches. But the Super League has already announced that it will be continued next season.  Maccabi has reached the Final Four from top place in the standings (26-4) whilst Nahariya was ranked fourth (17-13). Maccabi won the three regular season game 86-82 &#038; 95-84 at the NOKIA Arena &#038; 90-83 at Ein Sara. After the disappointment of the Euroleague Final, Derrick Sharp and co are determined  to win the domestic title. The first hurdle is Avi Ashekanzi\u2019s team including players like Corrie Carr, Ottis Hill, Jayson Wells, Avi Sukar &#038; captain Barak Peleg. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow (NOKIA Arena, 20:50) in the semi final of the Final Four. After three defeats in the regular season, Barak Peleg and his teammates, believe they can surprise the champions on their home court.<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-26065","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\/26065","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=26065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493788,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26065\/revisions\/493788"}],"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=26065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26065"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=26065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}