{"id":26119,"date":"2006-07-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/the-season-with-maccabi-changed-kirk-penney-completely\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:18:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:18:53","slug":"the-season-with-maccabi-changed-kirk-penney-completely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/the-season-with-maccabi-changed-kirk-penney-completely\/","title":{"rendered":"The season with Maccabi changed Kirk Penney completely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                               New Zealand suffered two more defeats vs Brazil and left for Argentina where they  will play four more games in preparation for the World Championship. The outstanding player for the Tall Blacks in the Brazil series, was Kirk Penney. In the third game in Rio Claro (95-83 for Brazil) he scored 25 pts (4-4 for three) and pulled down 4 rbds. In Sao Paolo (90-80 for Brazil) he scored 14 pts and grabbed 4 rbds. In the four games he scored 95 pts, an average of 24.  The New Zealand coach Tab Baldwin said: Kirk has been outstanding, really. He has been a different player to the one we knew before he joined Maccabi Tel Aviv. He is very comfortable with the defense &#038; the offense and is playing a relaxed role rather then thinking and pressuring himself too much&#8221;.                                                 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand coach praised Penney contribution by scoring an average of 24 pts<br \/>\nin the international vs Brazil.<\/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-26119","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\/26119","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=26119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493820,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26119\/revisions\/493820"}],"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=26119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26119"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=26119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}