{"id":497535,"date":"2013-08-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/devin-smith-is-back-in-israel-maccabi-is-the-place-to-be\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:51:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:51:52","slug":"devin-smith-is-back-in-israel-maccabi-is-the-place-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/devin-smith-is-back-in-israel-maccabi-is-the-place-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Smith is Back in Israel: \u201cMaccabi is the place to be\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;\"> \t<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Devin Smith<\/span> arrived in Israel on Tuesday ahead of preseason practices, which begin on Sunday. &ldquo;This is where I wanted to be,&rdquo; said Smith. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m excited and happy to be a part of Maccabi Tel Aviv. I love this place.&rdquo; When asked for his thoughts on the coming season, Smith said, &ldquo;We want to win every game. Our goal is to get stronger as a team during the preseason and to take back the championship at the end of it. That&rsquo;s what Maccabi is all about.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"> \t&ldquo;We also want to succeed in the Euroleague, but we have to get back the championship. All we can do is work with our people and keep moving forward as a team. I&rsquo;m looking forward to working with Sofo. Sometimes you have to give him a little push, but when he works hard, he&rsquo;s really something special.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: center;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv\u2019s forward, Devin Smith, is back in Israel for his third straight season with the club. \u201cThe goal, like always, is to work hard every day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":497533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-497535","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\/497535","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=497535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497537,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497535\/revisions\/497537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497535"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=497535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}