{"id":500580,"date":"2017-06-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/maccabi-signs-israeli-league-mvp-dibartolomeo\/"},"modified":"2017-06-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T09:00:00","slug":"maccabi-signs-israeli-league-mvp-dibartolomeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/maccabi-signs-israeli-league-mvp-dibartolomeo\/","title":{"rendered":"Maccabi signs Israeli League MVP DiBartolomeo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Maccabi Fox Tel Aviv is happy to announce the 2017\/18 season first roster addition, the Winner League 2016\/17 season MVP! <strong>John DiBartolomeo<\/strong> (26, 1.83) to a <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">three year<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> deal.<\/span><br \/> \t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">John is an agile combo guard who plays hard at both ends of the court with great character, who enjoys great shooting from all ranges and can create both for himself and for his teammates.<\/span><br \/> \t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">He joined Maccabi Haifa in the summer of 2015, and the 2016\/17 campaign was his breakout season where he stepped up and <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">putted<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> career high numbers as he became one of the hottest <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">name<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> in the domestic league.<\/span><br \/> \t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">In the 2016\/17 <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">season<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> he has put up a shooting clinic as he averaged 11P 3.9R and 3A in astounding percentages from all ranges: 60% for 2P, 40% for 3P, and 85% FT&#8217;s. During the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">playoffs<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> he presented a tremendous effort and his numbers grew respectively to 19.2P while shooting 21\/38 (55%) from deep and 28\/28 FT&#8217;s. he was selected to the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">All Israeli<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> League and also as the season MVP.<\/span><br \/> \t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">His season high&#8217;s includes: 35P with a 45 PIR against Hapoel Eilat, 22.5 per playoff game vs Hapoel Holon, and was a standout in the F4 semis vs Maccabi Tel Aviv as he led his team while scoring 19P in the second half.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv made 2017 Israeli League MVP John DiBartolomeo its first signing of the summer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-500580","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\/500580","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=500580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500580"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=500580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}