{"id":541789,"date":"2026-05-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8081\/maccabi-signs-david-efianayi\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T14:08:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:08:44","slug":"maccabi-signs-david-efianayi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/maccabi-signs-david-efianayi\/","title":{"rendered":"Maccabi Signs David Efianayi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv has signed David Efianayi (1.88 m, 30) until the end of the current season. He is an athletic scoring guard with extensive international experience and a strong familiarity with the Israeli League. His addition aims to bolster the backcourt ahead of the playoffs, following the release of Jeff Dowtin and injuries to Lonnie Walker and Amit Ebo.<\/span><\/div>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.maccabi.co.il\/en\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><u><strong>Shop Maccabi &gt;<\/strong><\/u><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;We signed David to provide depth and additional options in our backcourt,&#8221; explained head coach Oded Kattash. &#8220;He is a player with versatile skills who knows the league and can help us in the final stretch of the season.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;I want to thank the management and the coaching staff for the opportunity to join a historic club at the highest level like Maccabi Tel Aviv,&#8221; David Efianayi told maccabi.co.il. &#8220;I&#8217;m excited to get started, meet the fans, and do everything I can to help the team in the final stretch of the season. I&#8217;ve played at the Menora Arena before, but now I&#8217;ll be doing it wearing the famous yellow jersey. Let&#8217;s go Maccabi!&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"730\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/da20action20169.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\" class=\"wp-image-541787 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/da20action20169.jpg 980w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/da20action20169-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/da20action20169-768x572.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> \t<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Background<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">David Efianayi was born on December 19, 1995, in Connecticut, USA, and grew up in Florida. After his college career, he crossed the Atlantic in 2019 to play in Denmark. Two years later, he moved to France, and in the summer of 2022, he was signed by Hapoel Beer Sheva. In the Israeli League, he posted impressive numbers (averaging 16.5 points and 4.3 assists per game), was selected as an All-Star, and caught fire in the playoff series against Maccabi, averaging 19.7 points and 5.3 assists per night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In the summer of 2023, Efianayi signed with Petkim Spor in the tough Turkish league, impressing with 20.4 points per game, which led to a signing with Galatasaray. After a few months, he moved to Mersin, and last summer returned for another stint with Petkim, contributing 14.3 points, 5.2 assists, and 2.4 rebounds per night.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scoring guard, who played in the Turkish league this season and previously starred in the Israeli League, has signed until the end of the season. Kattash: &#8220;A player with versatile skills who knows the league and can help us in the final stretch of the season&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":541786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-541789","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\/541789","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=541789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541792,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541789\/revisions\/541792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541789"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=541789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}