{"id":31019,"date":"2011-05-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/eliyahu-and-pargo-named-among-top-5-players-perkins-top-defender\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:38:21","slug":"eliyahu-and-pargo-named-among-top-5-players-perkins-top-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/eliyahu-and-pargo-named-among-top-5-players-perkins-top-defender\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliyahu and Pargo Named Among Top 5 Players; Perkins Top Defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>By Amy Samin<\/FONT> <BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The Final Four of 2011 got underway Thursday night off the basketball court, with the Israeli Basketball League Administration holding its traditional Gala in the V.I.P. tent outside of Nokia Arena. In attendance were the four teams who will play in the semi-final games on Tuesday, as well as many people from the worlds of basketball and business.<\/FONT> <\/P> <P align=center><IFRAME height=330 src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_nyLV3iUuB0\" frameBorder=0 width=425 allowfullscreen><\/IFRAME><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The biggest headline of the evening was the selection of forward <B>Lior Eliyahu<\/B> and guard <B>Jeremy Pargo<\/B> to the Top Five players of the 2010 \u2013 2011 Lotto League season. Eliyahu, who returned to Maccabi this season after a year away, posted averages of 13.6 points and 4.8 rebounds, providing a rating of 17.7 index points per game. Pargo, who was also named to the second All-Euroleague team this season, averaged 9.8 points, 6.3 assists, and 3.4 rebounds, giving him an average of 12 index points per game.<\/FONT> <\/P> <P align=center><IFRAME height=330 src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_zhDnQu--Fk\" frameBorder=0 width=425 allowfullscreen><\/IFRAME><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>One other player worthy of mention is <B>Doron Perkins<\/B>, who was named the league\u2019s Best Defensive Player of the 2010 \u2013 2011 season. His averages this season included 14.2 points, 5 assists, 4.6 rebounds, and 2.3 steals per game, which gave him an average of 21.7 index points per game in 22 games. One of Perkins\u2019 best games of the season was against Hapoel Jerusalem, in which he earned an impressive triple-double that featured 10 points, 10 rebounds, and 11 assists.<\/FONT> <BR><\/P><FONT size=2 face=Arial><\/FONT> <P align=center><IFRAME height=330 src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/moHbCFNfkcY\" frameBorder=0 width=425 allowfullscreen><\/IFRAME><\/P> <P align=center><BR><BR><\/P> <P><A href=\"https:\/\/www.samintranslations.com\/\" target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><U>www.samintranslations.com<\/U><\/FONT><\/A><FONT size=2 face=Arial> <\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli Basketball League Administration held its annual Gala Thursday night, and named Jeremy Pargo and Lior Eliyahu among the top five players in the Lotto League this season.  Doron Perkins was chosen Best Defensive Player of the season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-31019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-54"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31019","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=31019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496123,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31019\/revisions\/496123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31019"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=31019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}