{"id":29840,"date":"2010-08-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/amare-stoudemire-practices-at-nokia-arena\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:34:38","slug":"amare-stoudemire-practices-at-nokia-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/amare-stoudemire-practices-at-nokia-arena\/","title":{"rendered":"Amar&#8217;e Stoudemire Practices at Nokia Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>By Amy Samin<\/FONT><BR><BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Amar\u2019e Stoudemire, one of the best forwards in the game of basketball and who has just signed a $99.7 million contract with the New York Knicks, enjoyed a private shooting session with his personal coach at Nokia Arena in the early hours of Monday morning. Maccabi\u2019s chairman of the board Shimon Mizrahi and team manager Gur Shelef were there to observe the amazing skills of this talented athlete, who surprised them by showing up with a yarmulke on his head. At the end of the practice Stoudemire received a gift from the club.<\/FONT><BR><\/P> <P align=center><IMG border=1 hspace=0 alt=\"\" align=baseline src=\"https:\/\/www.maccabi.co.il\/mtpic\/IMG_4746-1.jpg\"><BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Stoudemire said he had been favorably impressed by the country, adding a few words in Hebrew which he had managed to learn from people he had met on his visit. In particular, he mentioned the intense heat Israel has been experiencing in the last few days. After the practice, the player attended a meeting in a hotel in Tel Aviv with Tal Brody and Shimon Mizrahi.<\/FONT><BR><\/P> <P align=center><IMG border=1 hspace=0 alt=\"\" align=baseline src=\"https:\/\/www.maccabi.co.il\/mtpic\/IMG_4766-11.jpg\"><BR><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early hours of Monday morning one of the world\u2019s best forwards, Amar\u2019e Stoudemire, enjoyed a private practice on the home court of Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv.  Maccabi chairman of the board Shimon Mizrahi and team manager Gur Shelef were also present. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-29840","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\/29840","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=29840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495572,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29840\/revisions\/495572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29840"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=29840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}