{"id":32733,"date":"2012-10-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/malcolm-thomas-signs-with-maccabi-electra-tel-aviv\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:44:26","slug":"malcolm-thomas-signs-with-maccabi-electra-tel-aviv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/malcolm-thomas-signs-with-maccabi-electra-tel-aviv\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm Thomas Signs with Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0pt; \"> \t<span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; \">By Amy Samin<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0pt; \"> \t<span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; \">Maccabi Electra Tel A<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; \">viv is pleased to announce that it has signed American forward Malcolm Thomas (23, 6\u20199\u201d) to a one year contract, with an option for an additional year. Thomas is an outstanding athlete with excellent finishing skills in the paint, a great shot blocker and rebounder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: center; \"> \t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jB11eJDGJlE\" width=\"425\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0pt; \"> \t<span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; \">In his last season at San Diego State University (2010 \u2013 2011), Thomas finished with averages of 11.4 points, 8.1 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 2 blocks per game. Due to the NBA lockout, Thomas began his first season as a professional (2011 \u2013 2012)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; \"> in Asia, where he was a stand-out  with his 21 points, 11 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 blocks per game playing for Mobis Phoebus of South Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0pt; \"> \t<span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; \">When the lockout ended, Thomas signed with the Los Angeles Lakers, but was sent to play for the team\u2019s D-League <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; \">club, the Los Angeles D-Fenders, where he was impressive with averages of 14.9 points, 10.1 rebounds, and 1.8 blocks per game. Thomas went on to play for two other teams in the D-League, and also played three games in the NBA for the San Antonio Spurs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0pt; \"> \t<span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; \">Thomas played for the Chicago Bulls in the 2012 NBA Summer League, where he earned praise for his 11.4 points and 12.4 rebounds per game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0pt; \"> \t<span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; \">Maccabi\u2019s head coach, <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; \">David Blatt<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; \">, said of his new player: \u201cWe\u2019re happy to have signed a quality player with a huge amount of potential like Malcolm Thomas at such a relatively late date. He\u2019ll bring us a lot of energy in various categories on both ends of the court. I can\u2019t wait to work with him and to quickly integrate him into the Maccabi system and our method of play.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0pt; \"> \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.samintranslations.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; \">www.samintranslations.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv has signed a 1 and 1 contract with American forward Malcolm Thomas (23, 6\u20199\u201d), who last season was a leading player in the NBA D-League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-32733","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\/32733","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=32733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497001,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32733\/revisions\/497001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32733"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=32733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}