{"id":502374,"date":"2018-08-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/people-really-respect-maccabi-and-for-me-its-an-honor\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T10:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:18:24","slug":"people-really-respect-maccabi-and-for-me-its-an-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/people-really-respect-maccabi-and-for-me-its-an-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;People really respect Maccabi and for me it&#8217;s an honor&#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\/uajjvc5fcK0\" 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 style=\"direction: ltr;\">\n<div> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&#8220;When you look at the EuroLeague, it&#8217;s the second best league in the world and a place where really good NBA players have come from and when Maccabi called obviously it&#8217;s a really great franchise and it&#8217;s a no brainer coming here and help this club win but also help myself get back to where are I think I belong&#8221; said O&#8217;Bryant who also added: &#8220;I&#8217;m a really skilled player I didn&#8217;t get to really show it in the NBA, I can do passing and shooting, just bringing kinda an all-around big man to the team and a guy that can do a lot to help his team win&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">About whether he&#8217;s concerned about his EuroLeague debut Johnny said: &#8220;A little bit, I talked to some guys and obviously the rules are different but for the most part basketball is basketball so I&#8217;m gonna do my best and work with the coaches and try to learn as quick s possible&#8221;. About his preferred position (PF or C) Jonny added: &#8220;It don&#8217;t really matter, whatever the team needs me to do I think I can play the 4 and stretch the floor and shoot the ball but also play the 5, it really is what the coach needs&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a historic club, people really respect Maccabi Tel Aviv Basketball, and for me it&#8217;s an honor to really help the club win, my expectation is to try and win as many games as possible&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Yellow and Blue arrival has started yesterday with coach Spahija and continued today with Ex-NBAer Johnny O&#8217;Bryant who already knows what being a Maccabist is all about: &#8220;My expectation is to try and win as many games as possible&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-502374","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\/502374","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=502374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502376,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502374\/revisions\/502376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502374"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=502374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}