{"id":502337,"date":"2018-08-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/i-was-given-an-exceptional-opportunity-to-play-for-maccabi\/"},"modified":"2018-08-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T09:00:00","slug":"i-was-given-an-exceptional-opportunity-to-play-for-maccabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/i-was-given-an-exceptional-opportunity-to-play-for-maccabi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI was given an exceptional opportunity to play for Maccabi\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"direction: ltr;\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv announced yesterday on its newest roster addition, <strong>Johnny O\u2019Braynt<\/strong>. We talked to Johnny who said To Maccabi\u2019s official website: \u201cI\u2019m excited to be given an exceptional opportunity to play for Maccabi Tel Aviv\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> \tThe big man will make his European debut with the yellow and blue squad added: \u201cI\u2019m honored to join an organization with a history and tradition of winning like Maccabi has. I can\u2019t wait to arrive to the city and meet in person the coaching staff and my teammates which some I obviously already know and of course our passionate fans who support this magnificent club\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> \tWith time passing by and with the 2018\/19 season lurking just around the corner, all the players will arrive later this month and they will go through physical checkups, their first practices, the official opening practice with the fans, the season opener presser, photo shoot and much more.<\/p>\n<p> \tSo far Maccabi has added to its roster: Scottie Wilbekin, Kendrick Ray, Angelo Caloiaro Nimrod Levi and of course Johnny O\u2019Braynt. They will be joining Michael Roll, Jeremy Pargo, DeAndre Kane, Alex Tyus, Jake Cohen, John DiBartolomeo, Yovel Zoosman, Karam Mashour and Deni Avdija who just like Coach Spahija and his assistant Guy Goodes will continue in yellow and blue.<\/p>\n<p> \tMaccabi was invited to participate in numerous prestigious preseason tournaments, with the yellows accepting three invitations: Zadar, Cyprus and Athens. The opponents which Maccabi will face: Panathinaikos, AEK Athens, Khimki\u00a0 Moscow Region, CSKA Moscow, Fenerbahce, Olimpia Milan, Bayern Munich, Liaoning (CBA Champs). Maccabi will face some of these opponents more than once.<\/p>\n<p> \tSee You Soon&#8230;..<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi\u2019s new big man talks for the first time as a Maccabi player: \u201cI\u2019m honored to join an organization with a history and tradition of winning\u201d. The Maccabi players will arrive to Israel in August<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-502337","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\/502337","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=502337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502337"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=502337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}