{"id":26793,"date":"2007-08-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/maccabi-released-sasson-to-jerusalem\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:20:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:20:57","slug":"maccabi-released-sasson-to-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/maccabi-released-sasson-to-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Maccabi released Sasson to Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 150%\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"><\/SPAN><br \/><\/P> <P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 150%\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">Sharon Sasson signed for Hapoel Jerusalem on Thursday, leaving Maccabi Tel Aviv after two seasons. Sasson scored an average of 3.2 points in his 44 Euroleague games for Maccabi.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 150%\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">&#8220;I thank Maccabi Tel Aviv for the wonderful years and for the support and help,&#8221; Sasson said on Thursday. &#8220;I thank them for releasing me to Hapoel Jerusalem. Israeli basketball will benefit from their decision&#8221;. . <o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 150%\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">Maccabi statement: &#8220;Even though Sasson is one of the most loved and appreciated players at the club we decided that the right move would be to release him. Sharon got our blessing to sign for two seasons at Jerusalem and we wish him all the best.&#8221; <o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 150%\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">&#8220;I would like to first of all wish Sharon good luck,&#8221; new Maccabi coach Oded Katash said. <o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 150%\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">&#8220;He contributed a lot in his two seasons at the club and I&#8217;m certain Jerusalem have acquired a great player. Unfortunately, I never got the chance to coach him. My feeling is that Sharon Sasson&#8217;s love affair with Maccabi Tel Aviv is not over yet.&#8221;<\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The club statement: Even though Sasson is one of the most loved and appreciated players we decided that the right move would be to release him<\/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-26793","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\/26793","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=26793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494117,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26793\/revisions\/494117"}],"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=26793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26793"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=26793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}