{"id":28933,"date":"2009-08-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/hoopsworld-shimon-mizrahi-one-of-the-most-influential-people-in-basketball\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:29:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:29:57","slug":"hoopsworld-shimon-mizrahi-one-of-the-most-influential-people-in-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/hoopsworld-shimon-mizrahi-one-of-the-most-influential-people-in-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"HOOPSWORLD: Shimon Mizrahi \u2013 One of the Most Influential People in Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\">By Amy Samin<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\"><o:p><br \/><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\">The well-known website, HOOPSWORLD.com, has selected Maccabi\u2019s Shimon Mizrahi as one of the most influential people in basketball.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><br \/> <\/SPAN>The website described Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv\u2019s supremacy in Israeli basketball, among other things.<o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\"><o:p><br \/><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\">The entire text reads: \u201c<\/SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Israel<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"> is a dominant basketball market and Maccabi is the top team in the country. The Maccabi fan base is worldwide and they have become an attractive launching point for NBA careers and are extremely competitive in luring players away from the NBA. Maccabi will play an instrumental role in whatever European expansion plans the NBA may be considering, as Maccabi is one of the more profitable brands in international basketball.\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><o:p><br \/><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The website is currently preparing its list of the top 55 most influential people in basketball today.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><br \/> <\/SPAN>Obviously, most are connected in some way to the NBA, which is the central focus of the website.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><br \/> <\/SPAN>The holders of positions 55 \u2013 36 were published on Monday, with the remainder of the list to be published shortly.<o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><o:p><br \/><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv\u2019s chairman of the board, <B>Shimon Mizrahi<\/B>, had this to say about his inclusion on the list: \u201cI very much appreciate being chosen for the list, even more so because it shows recognition of my 40+ years of involvement.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><br \/> <\/SPAN>I am also happy for the club, because the club and I are as one.\u201d<\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\"><o:p><br \/><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\"><o:p><br \/><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: HE; mso-bidi-language: HE\"><A href=\"mailto:samintranslations@yahoo.com\">samintranslations@yahoo.com<\/A><\/SPAN><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of the board of Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv, Shimon Mizrahi, was named to the popular basketball website\u2019s \u201cTop 55 NBA Most Influential\u201d list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-28933","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\/28933","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=28933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495151,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28933\/revisions\/495151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28933"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=28933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}