{"id":31174,"date":"2011-07-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/derrick-sharp-named-assistant-coach\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:38:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:38:55","slug":"derrick-sharp-named-assistant-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/derrick-sharp-named-assistant-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Derrick Sharp Named Assistant Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>By Amy Samin<\/FONT><\/P> <P><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>The management of Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv is delighted to announce that long-time player and beloved team captain Derrick Sharp will join Guy Goodes in serving as assistant coach to head coach David Blatt.<\/FONT><\/P> <P><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>Maccabi is certain that in his new role with the team that he has served faithfully and so well for the last fifteen years, Derrick Sharp&#8217;s superb talent and wealth of experience will enable him to guide and lead the players and instill in them and in the system as a whole the values of excellence and success that have epitomized his contributions to Maccabi as both player and team captain and which have made him the heart and soul of Maccabi.<\/FONT><\/P> <P align=center><IFRAME height=330 src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/77_YnW4v7hc\" frameBorder=0 width=425 allowfullscreen><\/IFRAME><\/P> <P><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>Derrick Sharp is a well-respected and incredibly important part of the Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv basketball club. As the second part of his career begins \u2013 the career of a coach \u2013 there will likely be a number of ceremonies honoring his career as a player.<\/FONT><\/P> <P><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>For the last fifteen years, Sharp has played an enormous role in the tremendous success the team has experienced: three European championships, 13 Israeli championships and 11 Israel Cups \u2013 a total of no less than 27 titles! He had a hand in innumerable heroic plays while wearing the yellow and blue, first and foremost, of course, being the Zalgiris Miracle of 2004.<\/FONT><\/P> <P align=center><IFRAME height=330 src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T44ijSraSlY\" frameBorder=0 width=425 allowfullscreen><\/IFRAME><\/P> <P><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>The management of Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv wishes to thank Derrick Sharp from the bottom of their hearts for the fifteen fabulous years he has given them as a player, and they are sure he will continue to contribute to the success of the team in his new and exciting role.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The management of Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv is delighted to announce that long-time player and beloved team captain Derrick Sharp will join Guy Goodes in serving as assistant coach to head coach David Blatt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-31174","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\/31174","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=31174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496237,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31174\/revisions\/496237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31174"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=31174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}