{"id":31299,"date":"2011-08-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/smith-and-hendrix-arrive-in-israel\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:39:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:39:24","slug":"smith-and-hendrix-arrive-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/smith-and-hendrix-arrive-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith and Hendrix Arrive in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>By Amy Samin<\/FONT> <BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The first practice of Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv\u2019s training camp will take place tomorrow (Sunday) at Nokia Arena. Most of the team\u2019s foreign players will take part, including <B>Richard Hendrix<\/B> (who will be starting his second season with Maccabi) and newly-acquired swingman <B>Devin Smith,<\/B> both of whom arrived in Israel today (Saturday). Several hours earlier, the team\u2019s two Greek players, Theo Papaloukas and Sofo Schortsanitis, also landed at Ben Gurion Airport. Jon Scheyer will arrive in Israel on Tuesday, and Serbian Milan Ma\u0107van will join his teammates once he has completed his participation in the European Championship.<\/FONT> <\/P> <P align=center><IFRAME height=330 src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e0qzjMn7k_Q\" frameBorder=0 width=425 allowfullscreen><\/IFRAME><\/P> <P align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to come in here and be received by such good fans,\u201d said Smith of the welcome. \u201cI came to just be myself. The coaches know the type of player I am, and I\u2019m not trying to do anything outside of what I\u2019m capable of. I met Richard in Philadelphia [before the flight to Tel Aviv]; it\u2019s nice to meet someone who\u2019s going to be on the team with you. We\u2019re going to start practicing and we\u2019re going to work hard. It\u2019s an opportunity for me to play with Papaloukas and the other great players. It\u2019s definitely a wonderful chance for me.\u201d<\/FONT> <\/P> <P align=center><IMG style=\"WIDTH: 425px; HEIGHT: 283px\" border=1 hspace=0 alt=\"Devin Smith and Richard Hendrix Arrive in Israel\" align=baseline src=\"https:\/\/www.maccabi.co.il\/mtpic\/IMG_9003-1.jpg\"><BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hendrix said, \u201cI\u2019m glad to be back. I\u2019m ready to get back to playing ball with my teammates. I\u2019m looking forward to a good year. We\u2019re expecting this to be a great season. We\u2019ll have a lot of challenges and we\u2019ll need to work hard. It won\u2019t be easy. I know the team and the new players, and I\u2019m looking forward to working with Farmar and Smith. I\u2019m going to continue to play hard and do what I like to do on the court. I think I can carve a niche on this team in all three leagues.\u201d<\/FONT> <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>Another pair of players has arrived in Israel: Americans Devin Smith and Richard Hendrix landed in Tel Aviv on Saturday afternoon and were welcomed by dozens of Maccabi fans.  Smith: \u201cIt\u2019s a warm welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-31299","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\/31299","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=31299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496331,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31299\/revisions\/496331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31299"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=31299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}