{"id":504154,"date":"2019-08-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/maccabi-signed-sandy-cohen-iii\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T11:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:01:14","slug":"maccabi-signed-sandy-cohen-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/maccabi-signed-sandy-cohen-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Maccabi signed Sandy Cohen III"},"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\/hLw_ptkXoY8\" 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;\">Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv signed Guard-Forward Sandy Cohen III (23, 1.98m) on a long term contract for the next 4 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;Sandy Cohen is a very talented player whose potential can fit into a high-level team like Maccabi,&#8221; said coach <strong>Giannis Sfairopoulos<\/strong> to maccabi.co.il. &#8220;Maccabi has already shown that it wants to work with prospects and give them a chance, so we are very happy that Sandy is joining the club&#8217;s program&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Sandy Cohen III (23, 1.98), who is capable of playing in the Guard and Forward positions, was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He played at Seymour High School in the 2013\/14 season and finished with an impressive 21.3 points per game avg, being selected as the MVP of the season after two consecutive championships.<\/p>\n<p> \t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Sandy Cohen started his season in the NCAA playing for marquette, but at the beginning of his third season he moved to Wisconsin-Green Bay where he played two years. In his final season (2018\/19) he delivered wonderful averages of 17.5 points, 6.4 rebounds, 4.7 assists and 1.9 steals per game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">After not being selected in the last draft, Cohen took part in the NBA Summer League in the Cleveland Cavaliers uniform alongside Yovel Zoosman and also been training with the Minnesota Timberwolves and Indiana Pacers.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guard-forward, who has provided 17.5 points, 6.4 rebounds and 4.7 assists per game in college last season, has been awarded a long-term contract. Sfairopoulos: &#8220;His potential can fit a high-level team like Maccabi&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":504151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-504154","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\/504154","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=504154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504157,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504154\/revisions\/504157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504154"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=504154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}