{"id":26131,"date":"2006-08-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/a-combination-of-nba-and-europe-in-maccabis-pre-season-games\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:18:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:18:57","slug":"a-combination-of-nba-and-europe-in-maccabis-pre-season-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/a-combination-of-nba-and-europe-in-maccabis-pre-season-games\/","title":{"rendered":"A combination of NBA and Europe in Maccabi`s pre season games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                               The games vs NBA teams will be the main talking point during the Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv 2006\/07 pre season. In less than two weeks Maccabi will face three or four NBA teams in Europe and North America. &#8220;It is a privilege and honor to our club to accept the invitation tp play Toronto and Clevland&#8221;, says Shimon Mizrahi, President of Maccabi Tel Aviv BC. &#8220;This will be our sixth visit to the US &#038; Canada since 1988 to meet with NBA teams, which indicates our close relationship with the NBA, and will come immediately after we participate in NBA Europe Live presented by EA SPORTS&#8221;. The first game will be played on October 8 in Paris Bercy vs San Antonio Spurs with Tym Duncan, Tony Parker &#038; Tony Parker. From there Maccabi will move to Cologne, Germany for a four team tournament. On October 10th Maccabi will play CSKA Moscow in a repeat of the 2006 Euroleague Final in Prague. On the same night the Phoenix Suns will play the Philadelphia 76. The winners will play the final on October 11 and the losers will play for third place.  After a short stay in Israel Maccabi will travel to North America. On October 17 they will play in Cleveland vs Lebron James and the Cavaliers and two days later in Toronto vs Anthony Parker &#038; the Raptors which Maccabi beat last year 105-103.  Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv will leave on September 20 to Zrece, Slovenia, for pre season training. They will play there two warm up games. On September 29 they will play in Vilnius vs Lietuvos Rytas and on October 5 in the Paris suburb of Levallois vs Climamio Bologna \t  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will play in Paris vs San Antonio and in Cleveland &#038; Toronto. Will also face Lietuvos Rytas, Climamio Bologna &#038; CSKA Moscow <\/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-26131","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\/26131","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=26131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493828,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26131\/revisions\/493828"}],"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=26131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26131"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=26131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}