{"id":31278,"date":"2011-08-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/james-im-very-excited-to-join-maccabi-electra-tel-aviv\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:39:19","slug":"james-im-very-excited-to-join-maccabi-electra-tel-aviv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/james-im-very-excited-to-join-maccabi-electra-tel-aviv\/","title":{"rendered":"James: \u201cI\u2019m very excited to join Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>By Amy Samin<\/FONT> <BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial><STRONG>Shawn James<\/STRONG>, together with his wife and children, arrived in Israel this afternoon and was welcomed by dozens of fans at Ben Gurion Airport. \u201cI\u2019m very excited to join Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv. My expectation has always been the same: just have everybody be healthy and go out there and compete. Once we compete, I think we have a chance to win a lot of games.<\/FONT><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>\u201d When asked if he would be able to find his place on the expanded team, James said, \u201cCoach wouldn\u2019t have brought me and management wouldn\u2019t have brought me if they didn\u2019t have expectations of me or know how to use me, so I think I\u2019ll find my place just fine.\u201d<\/FONT> <BR><\/P> <P align=center><IFRAME height=330 src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h9OemZ5mIfw\" frameBorder=0 width=425 allowfullscreen><\/IFRAME><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>\u201cI\u2019m excited to meet Papaloukas; I\u2019ve heard so much about him. I\u2019m excited to meet him just as a person. We all know what type of player he is. I\u2019m excited to see what kind of person he is, off the court.\u201d When asked if he\u2019s ready to play in three leagues, James said, \u201cYeah, I\u2019m ready. I worked very hard this summer just to prepare my body for this moment and I will be ready.\u201d<\/FONT><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial><BR>James was also asked what he thought about going head to head with Hapoel Jerusalem\u2019s new acquisition, Jarvis Varnado. The center replied, \u201cHe\u2019s a high-percentage shot blocker also, but at the end of the day it\u2019s about who\u2019s winning the game. It\u2019s not personal.\u201d<\/FONT><\/P> <P align=center><IMG border=1 hspace=0 alt=\"\" align=baseline src=\"https:\/\/www.maccabi.co.il\/mtpic\/IMG_844436.jpg\"><\/P><FONT size=2 face=Arial><\/FONT> <P><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>Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv\u2019s new center, Shawn James, arrived in Israel today (23 August) and was welcomed by dozens of fans.  \u201cMy expectation has always been the same: just have everybody be healthy and go out there and compete.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-31278","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\/31278","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=31278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496313,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31278\/revisions\/496313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31278"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=31278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}