{"id":510513,"date":"2024-07-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/john-dibartolomeo-extended-until-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:20:18","slug":"john-dibartolomeo-extended-until-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/john-dibartolomeo-extended-until-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"John DiBartolomeo extended until 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv extended John DiBartolomeo&#8217;s contract for two more years, until 2026. The energetic guard, fresh off his sixth Israeli championship in seven seasons with the team, would hold the record for most consecutive seasons as the captain in the club&#8217;s history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;My brothers, I&#8217;m happy to say we&#8217;re staying together for two more years&#8221;, announced DiBartolomeo himself. &#8220;Maccabi and Israel have become my home. I can&#8217;t wait to get back out there and start the season. Maccabi is in my heart, let&#8217;s get it!&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/jd20hanafa20169.jpg\" style=\"\" class=\"wp-image-517537 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/jd20hanafa20169.jpg 980w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/jd20hanafa20169-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/jd20hanafa20169-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">John-D joined the yellows from Maccabi Haifa after winning the Israeli league MVP honor in 2017. During his first season in Tel Aviv, he was appointed as team captain. A year later, he lead the league in plus-minus and FT shooting percentage, and was named as the MVP of the Final Four.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">He remained a key factor for the team throughout his time in Tel Aviv, leading the EuroLeague in FT accuracy two seasons ago and ranking fourth in plus-minus last season. He posted 9.3 PPG in the Israeli league in the last campagin, shooting 47.9% from three and grabbing 1.2 steals per game.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv&#8217;s captain, fresh off his sixth championship with the team, signed a new two-year contract: &#8220;Maccabi and Isarel are my home&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":517536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-510513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510513","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=510513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517542,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510513\/revisions\/517542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510513"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=510513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}