{"id":497494,"date":"2013-08-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/hickman-it-will-be-fun-to-play-against-my-teammates-from-maccabi\/"},"modified":"2013-08-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T09:00:00","slug":"hickman-it-will-be-fun-to-play-against-my-teammates-from-maccabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/hickman-it-will-be-fun-to-play-against-my-teammates-from-maccabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Hickman: \u201cIt will be fun to play against my teammates from Maccabi\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"> \tBy Amy Samin<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"> \tRicky Hickman arrived in Israel, but not in order to wear the yellow and blue (yet). The American guard is part of the Georgian National Team, and is here with them as part of the European Championship competition. \u201cThey were looking for someone who plays my position, and things just kind of went from there. It\u2019s a special feeling, representing a country, and I\u2019m doing the best I can. The fact that Giorgi (Shermadini) is here really helped me to fit in, because we know each other from Maccabi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"> \t\u201cIt will be fun to play against my teammates \u2013 Guy (Pnini), Yogev (Ohayon) and Lior (Eliyahu). I\u2019m sure they will also enjoy playing against me. It\u2019s always fun to come back here. Basically, just like the Israeli National Team, we want to improve and be ready for the championship, where everyone\u2019s goal will be to make it to the second round. I expect these two games to be good ones, and difficult ones, too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv\u2019s guard Ricky Hickman landed in Israel together with the rest of the Georgian National Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":497348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-497494","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\/497494","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=497494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497494"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=497494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}