{"id":499731,"date":"2016-10-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/parker-this-is-so-much-more-than-i-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:23:54","slug":"parker-this-is-so-much-more-than-i-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/parker-this-is-so-much-more-than-i-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Parker: &#8220;This is so much more than I expected&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"responsive-video-container\" style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ppRmodsuSoU\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"LTR\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Anthony Parker was inducted into Maccabi Fox Tel Aviv&#8217;s hall of fame before the exhibition match against Darussafaka. The ceremony included an extended standing ovation from Ten thousand eager fans at Menora. Darussafaka coach, David Blatt also received an extremely warm welcome from the crowd.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"LTR\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"LTR\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&#8220;Thank you so much&#8221;, said an emotional Parker while speaking to the audience, &#8220;I remember how it all started, with some guys who took a chance on a skinny kid from the US and let him play for this great club. I want to thank my teammates, it&#8217;s an honor to share this evening with the great coach Blatt, even though I won&#8217;t be cheering for him tonight&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"LTR\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"LTR\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&#8220;I want to thank everyone who put this evening together and most of all, I want to thank you guys, the fans. Everyone always asks what do I miss about not playing anymore, well it&#8217;s nights like this&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div> \t\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Parker was inducted into Maccabi&#8217;s hall of fame before the game against Darussafaka in an emotional ceremony: &#8220;I miss nights like these&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-499731","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\/499731","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=499731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499733,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499731\/revisions\/499733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499731"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=499731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}