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| Nickname | Maccabi The Yellows | ||
| Leagues | Ligat HaAl EuroLeague | ||
| Founded | 1932; 93 years ago (1932) | ||
| Arena | Menora Mivtachim Arena | ||
| Capacity | 10,383 | ||
| Location | Tel Aviv,Israel | ||
| Team colors | Yellow, Blue | ||
| Main sponsor | Rapyd | ||
| CEO | Avi Ben Tal | ||
| President | Shimon Mizrahi | ||
| General manager | Claudio Coldebella | ||
| Head coach | Oded Kattash | ||
| Team captain | John DiBartolomeo | ||
| Ownership | David Federman (29%) Oudi Recanati (29%) Richard Deitz (17.5%) Shimon Mizrahi (14.5%) Ben Ashkenazy (10%) | ||
| Championships | 6EuroLeague 57Israeli Championships 46Israeli State Cups 11Israeli League Cups 1Intercontinental Cup 1Adriatic Championship | ||
| Website | maccabi.co.il | ||
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Maccabi Tel Aviv Basketball Club (Hebrew:מועדון כדורסל מכבי תל אביב), known for sponsorship reasons asMaccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv (מכבי ראפיד תל אביב), is a professionalbasketball club based inTel Aviv,Israel. The team plays in theLigat HaAl (the top tier of Israeli basketball), and internationally in theEuroLeague. Maccabi Tel Aviv is known as one of the best teams in Europe, having won 6 Euroleague titles since joining, and having sent numerous players to the NBA draft.
The club was established in the mid-1930s, as part of theMaccabi Tel Aviv Sports Club, which had been founded in 1906.
With 6 EuroLeague championships (including the2001 FIBA SuproLeague), oneAdriatic League championship, 57 Israeli Basketball Premier League championships, 46Israeli State Cup titles, and 11Israeli League Cup titles, Maccabi has been the most successful basketball team in Israel. Players such asTal Brody,Miki Berkovich,Jim Boatwright,Kevin Magee,Earl Williams, andAulcie Perry; and more recentlyDerrick Sharp,Šarūnas Jasikevičius,Tal Burstein,Anthony Parker andNikola Vujčić, have been among the elite of Europe's basketball players.
TheIsraeli Basketball Super League started in 1954, and Maccabi Tel Aviv was the first champion. It has dominated the championship ever since, winning the title overal 57 times, including 23 consecutive titles (1970 and 1992). The team has also won theIsraeli Basketball State Cup overall 45 times. Maccabi is considered[by whom?] Israel's national sporting representative in the world.[citation needed]
From 1969 until 2008, Maccabi Tel Aviv was sponsored byElite, Israel's largest food company, and carried its name. Since July 2008, Maccabi has had a new sponsor –Electra. In 2015 they switched their sponsor once again, this time to fashion chainFOX.
Since 1963, the club's home court has been the Yad Eliyahu Arena in Tel Aviv (later renamed "Menora Mivtachim Arena"). Originally an open-air court for 5,000 spectators, it is now a modern indoor arena with a capacity of 10,383.[1]
Most Maccabi Tel Avivhead coaches have been former players of the club.Yehoshua Rozin was involved with the club for 40 years.Ralph Klein started as an 18-year-old player and later had several spells as a coach, and led the club to its firstEuroLeague title in the1977–78 season.Zvi Sherf played for Maccabi's second team, and coached the team for three spells.Pini Gershon played in the Youth department and as a coach led Maccabi to three EuroLeague titles; in 2001, 2004, and 2005.
Maccabi Tel Aviv has always provided the seniorIsrael national basketball team with a large number of players. Five Maccabi players, headed byAvraham Shneur, were on the team that represented Israel in its firstEuroBasket, in1953 in Moscow.
Tanhum Cohen-Mintz was one of Europe's topcenters in the sixties, and was selected to the firstFIBA European Selection European All-Star Team, which played in Madrid in 1964.Miki Berkowitz,Motty Aroesti,Lou Silver, andEric Minkin played a major part in winning the silver medal at the1979 EuroBasket in Torino.Doron Jamchy played 16 years for the Israel national team, and holds the record for appearances (191 international games) and points scored (3,515).
Maccabi Tel Aviv was the first Israeli club to enter theFIBA European Champions Cup (EuroLeague), inthe 1958 season. Since then, it has played over 600 games in European-wide competitions, and was the only Israeli club to play in aFIBA European Cup Winners' Cup (FIBA Saporta Cup)Final (1967 Cup Winners' Cup), and to win theEuropean-wide top-tier level EuroLeague on six occasions (1977, 1981, *2001 FIBA SuproLeague, 2004, 2005, and 2014). Maccabi has played in 15EuroLeague Finals (1977, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1987, 1988, 1989, 2000, *2001 FIBA SuproLeague, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011, and 2014). In1994 Tel Aviv, and in2004 in Tel Aviv, Maccabi organized theEuroLeague Final Four.
The first basketball game between anNBA and a FIBA team was held in 1978, in Tel Aviv. Maccabi Tel Aviv beat the defending NBA championWashington Bullets, 98–97.
Maccabi Tel Aviv has played a record 18 times vs. NBA teams, and became the first European team to win on an NBA floor, when it beat theToronto Raptors, 105–103, in 2005. It also beat thePhoenix Suns andBrooklyn Nets in 1984, to win a tournament in Tel Aviv.
5Israeli League championships, 3Israeli Cups.
Early success in the Israeli League. Rivalry withHapoel Tel Aviv begins.
5Israeli League championships, 5Israeli Cups.
Establishment as an elite club withFIBA European All-Stars, such ascenterTanhum Cohen-Mintz. Fierce rivalry with home-town foes, Hapoel Tel Aviv.
Tal Brody came to Israel in 1966 from the United States, after having been drafted #12 in the1965 National Basketball Association Draft, originally just to take one year out of his life to play for Maccabi Tel Aviv.[2][3][4][5][6]Ralph Klein, Israel's most successful coach at the time, said that up until the enthusiastic Brody's arrival, Israelis had only viewed basketball as a fun game.[2][7] But within a year, with his serious attitude and his inspirational commitment, Brody had inculcated his teammates with his view of basketball as a way of life.[2] At his urging, the team doubled the number of practices it held every week.[8]
To capitalize on Brody's quickness and speed, the coach abandoned the team's formerly slow pace, in favor of a fast-paced motion game, built aroundfast breaks.[2] Brody was the most dominant player in theEuropean-wide second tier levelFIBA European Cup Winners' Cup (FIBA Saporta Cup) in the1966–67 season. In 1967, he was named Israel's Sportsman of the Year.[7][9] The team made it through the first, second, and third rounds of the European Cup Winners' Cup's (Saporta Cup) playoffs, and reached theFinals, finishing second in the league.[2][9][10]
For the first time, the IsraeliPrime Minister (Levi Eshkol), theIsraeli Defense ForcesChief of Staff, andKnesset members came to games. Demand for tickets to games in the team's 5,000-seat stadium was so high that they became exceedingly difficult to obtain.[6][7][11]
1FIBA European Champions Cup (EuroLeague), 10Israeli League championships, 8Israeli Cups.
The rise to the top in Europe. The first EuroLeague championship in 1977 was soon followed by another finals appearance in 1980.Tal Brody was thecaptain of that Maccabi Tel Aviv team.
The year 1977 was the apex of theCold War, and the Soviet Union was boycotting Israel.[9] In the first round of theFIBA European Champions Cup (EuroLeague) Maccabi Tel Aviv defeatedReal Madrid, 94–85. In the second round, it beatBC Brno,Czechoslovakian League, for the first time, 91–76, on 15 February 1977.[2][12]
In the FIBA European Champions Cup semifinals, Maccabi Tel Aviv was matched againstCSKA Moscow – theRed Army team.[9][10][12] CSKA Moscow was a powerhouse. TheSoviet Army team had won the priorUSSR League championship.[2][9][12][13] Six of its players had played on theSoviet national team that had defeated theUnited States in the1972 Summer Olympics, and their captain wasSergei Belov.[10][14] And theCommunists were well known for using sports to glorify what they billed as their supremacy over the West.[2]
The Soviet Union had broken off diplomatic relations with Israel a decade earlier, and politically and militarily backed Israel's Arab enemies. For political reasons, therefore, CSKA Moscow refused to play in Tel Aviv. And the Soviets also refused to grant visas to the Israelis, to allow them to come play in Moscow.[2][9][10] In the end, Maccabi Tel Aviv's "home game" was played in the small, neutral town ofVirton, Belgium.[2][9][10][12]
The game took place in an emotional atmosphere. It was of huge symbolic value for Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, and for many Israelis who ordinarily had no interest in basketball.[2][15] The game pitted the capitalist West against the Communist East, and Israel against the country that was supplying its enemies with weapons.[2][16] The game also matched the country of Israel, with a total of a mere 4 million inhabitants, against the Soviets, with their 290 million people.[2] The newspaperMaariv billed the 17 February 1977, game as "the fight betweenDavid and Goliath."[2] Most of Israel's population watched the game, which was broadcast on Israel's only TV channel at the time.[2]
Maccabi Tel Aviv upset the heavily favored Soviets, 91–79.[2] The feeling among Israelis was not only that CSKA Moscow had been defeated, but that a victory – albeit small – had been achieved against the mighty Soviet Union.[10][12] The game has for decades been recognized as a key event in the forging of Israel's national identity. Even decades later, it was being replayed repeatedly on Israeli television.[2][8]
"We are on the map!" proclaimed a euphoricTal Brody, in his heavily American-accentedHebrew, as a TV announcer pushed a microphone in front of him for a post-game quote, while people danced thehora around, him in excitement and celebration. "And we are staying on the map – not only in sports, but in everything."[10][17][18][19] The phrase "We are on the map!" ("anachnu al hamapa, ve'anahnu nisharim al hamapa!"), a literal translation of an English phrase into his adopted language, but a novel saying in Hebrew, became a new, popular phrase in Israel.[18][20] It reflected a physical victory by the nascent JewishZionist idea, and national pride.[11][18][21] It became Israel's most famous quote,[3] and a staple of Israeli speech.[8][22][23][24][25]
Back home, hundreds of thousands of Israelis celebrated spontaneously in the streets, and 150,000 in Tel Aviv congregated in celebration in what is nowRabin Square. Many jumped into its fountain, splashing in water and champagne.[2][10][26] Recalling the moment, an Israeli quoted in the bookFrom Beirut to Jerusalem told authorThomas Friedman that on one level it was Brody the star basketball player and his teammates beating the Russians, but on another level it was "my grandfather beating them. It was our retroactive victory over theCossacks."[27]
The FIBA European Champions Cup Finals were played inBelgrade,Yugoslavia, on 7 April 1977.[28] Yugoslavia was a Non-Aligned country that supported Palestine, and with which Israel did not have diplomatic relations, and theEl Al plane that brought the Maccabi Tel Aviv players over to it for the game, was the first Israeli plane ever allowed to land there.[19][29]
The Israelis were pitted against the highly favoredMobilgirgi Varese, the champions of Italy'stop league.[28] Mobilgirgi Varese had beaten the Israelis twice that year, and had beaten them in theEuropean-wide second-tier levelFIBA European Cup Winners' Cup (FIBA Saporta Cup)Finals, ten years earlier, when Brody first started playing for Maccabi Tel Aviv.[28] Back in Israel, the entire country watched the game on television.[2][7][10][12][30]
Maccabi Tel Aviv went on to defeat Mobilgirgi Varese by one point, 78–77, in theFIBA European Champions Cup Finals.[28][31] Brody, as the team's captain, received the FIBA European Cup trophy fromFIBA's Secretary General, and lifted it over his head.[2][10]Jim Boatwright wasthe game's leading scorer, with 26 points.
It was Israel's first FIBA European Champions Cup title, in the 23-nation league.[29] It was also the first time that Israel had won a championship of that caliber in any sport, and was, at the time, Israel's greatest achievement in international sports.[2][4][9][30] The victory greatly lifted the spirit and morale of the country.[4][9] In Israel, 200,000 people gathered to celebrate in Israel's National Park, and the event was celebrated as a national holiday. When the team returned home, it found 150,000 Israelis waiting for it.[10][19][32]
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1FIBA European Champions Cup (EuroLeague), 1FIBA Intercontinental Cup, 10Israeli League championships, 8Israeli Cups.
A golden era of the Maccabi Tel Aviv ball club. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Maccabi dominated theIsraeli Basketball Super League, winning all 20 league championships consecutively. Winning theFIBA European Champions Cup (EuroLeague) title in 1981, and reaching theFIBA European Champions CupFinals for four more times, in 1982, 1987, 1988, and 1989.Miki Berkovich 1971–75, and 1976–88,Motti Aroesti 1974–88,Doron Jamchi 1985–96 and 1999–2000,Kevin Magee 1984–90,Lou Silver 1975–85,Ken Barlow 1987–90,Aulcie Perry 1976–85, andLaVon Mercer 1988–95 were the superstars of that Maccabi run.
Maccabi Tel Aviv beatSinudyne Bologna, 80–79, in theFinals game, inStrasbourg, under head coachRudy D'Amico. It was proof that Maccabi was at the top of European professionalclub basketball for good.
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9Israeli League championships, 5Israeli Cups.
For Maccabi Tel Aviv there was no European-wide title in the decade, and the team had struggles in European competitions. However, the club was still considered to be one of the European powerhouses of that era, as the club then featured European All-Stars such asDoron Jamchy andOded Kattash, as wellLaVon Mercer. With the exception of 1993, Maccabi absolutely dominated the Israel League, winning every championship.
3EuroLeague championships, 9Israeli League championships, 7Israeli Cups, 1Israeli League Cup.
The "second golden era" of Maccabi Tel Aviv, making it the second most successful European basketball club of that decade. Maccabi made it to theFIBA EuroLeague'stitle game in 2000, which marked the start of Maccabi's second "golden era", the most successful of the club to date. During this decade, the club won three EuroLeague championships, in2001 (FIBA SuproLeague),2004, and2005 respectively. They also reached the European title game on two more occasions, in2006 and2008.Ariel McDonald 1999–2002,Anthony Parker 2000–02 and 2003–06,Nate Huffman 1999–2002,Šarūnas Jasikevičius 2003–05,Maceo Baston 2003–06,Derrick Sharp 1996–2011,Nikola Vujčić 2002–08, andTal Burstein 2000–09 and 2010–12 were the top players of Maccabi during this era.
The return to European glory for the club. This was the only year in European-wide professional club basketball history, with two recognizedtop-tier level European-wide champions, from two different organizations. Maccabi Tel Aviv was recognized as the winner of the traditionalFIBA tournament, which had been renamed from the FIBA EuroLeague, to theFIBA SuproLeague; andKinder Bologna, which was recognized as the champions of the newly establishedEuroLeague, which was organized byEuroLeague Basketball.
Maccabi Tel Aviv fans did not have to wait too much for another big title, as it all clicked in the 2003–04 season.Sharp's miracle three-pointer to survive the EuroLeague Top 16 that year has become one of the classic shots in European basketball history, and is unforgettable for any Maccabi fan. Once in the2004 EuroLeague Final Four, Maccabi turned in a record breaking performance, with an outstanding 118-point title game performance. Maccabi won back-to-back EuroLeague titlesin 2005, becoming the first team to do so since 1991. The players Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Anthony Parker, Tal Burstein, Maceo Baston, and Nikola Vujčić, coached byPini Gershon, became a classic lineup in European basketball history. This team of 2003–04 and 2004–05 is generally considered one of the best basketball teams in European club history, and certainly one of the most fun to watch ever in basketball history. After startingpoint guard "Saras" Jasikevičius left the team, to fulfill his lifelong dream and play in the NBA, Maccabiwent back to the EuroLeague Final, in the 2005–06 season, but CSKA Moscow stood in the way of a three-peat. Anthony Parker and Maceo Baston left after that year, and returned home, signing multi-million dollar contracts with NBA teams. Center Nikola Vujčić stayed with Maccabi for two more years, playing inone more final, in the 2007–08 season, before leaving the team, and signing a multi-million dollar deal withOlympiacos. Israeli Super League legends Derrick Sharp and Tal Burstein, remained with Maccabi, and continued to play for the team until 2011 and 2012, respectively. Maccabi also dominated the Israel League, winning every tournament from 1993 to 2007, and winning multiple Cup tournaments.
1EuroLeague Championship, 5Israeli League championships, 8Israeli Cups, 6Israeli League Cups, 1Adriatic League championship.
For the 2010–11 season, management brought back head coachDavid Blatt, and added new premier players. Maccabi Tel Aviv reeled off nine consecutive wins to finish the EuroLeague regular season. Highlights includedDavid Blu's game-winning triple againstKhmki,Sofoklis Schortsanitis's dominance inside, and the defense of steals leadersChuck Eidson andDoron Perkins. The momentum ended with a road loss atRegal FC Barcelona, at the start of the EuroLeague Top 16, but Maccabi surged again with three straight wins to reach the EuroLeague playoffs. Barca handed Maccabi another loss, this time in Tel Aviv – the only home defeat of the season – and ended Blatt's hopes for home-court advantage, in the next stage againstCaja Laboral.
Maccabi Tel Aviv prevailed in the EuroLeague playoff series, as the injured Perkins' replacement in the starting lineup,Guy Pnini, set a single-game-career-high in scoring, along the way, and the team moved on to the2011 Final Four.Jeremy Pargo finished with the bestperformance index rating, and the second-most points per game, among all playoffs participants. He also ranked among the top five players in three-pointers made, assists, and steals. Backup centerRichard Hendrix was namedMVP of the first round of the EuroLeague Playoffs, and finished as the overall playoff leader in rebounds and blocks. Maccabi Tel Aviv beat Real Madrid in the EuroLeague semifinals, 82–63, advancing to theEuroLeague Final game. On 8 May 2011, Maccabi lost the final game, 70–78, toPanathinaikos. With the exception of 2008 and 2010, Maccabi, up to 2011, also won every Israeli League from 1993.
Maccabi announced that it would join the Adriatic League for the2011–12 season, joining the league for the second time, as it had also joined the league for the2002–03 season, when it reached the League's finals game.[33] This was supposed to bridge the gap between the highest basketball level Maccabi engages in, in the EuroLeague, and the low-level Israeli league.
On 3 August 2011, NBApoint guardJordan Farmar of theNew Jersey Nets signed a one-year contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv, in the wake of the2011 NBA lockout. He played for the team during the lockout.[8][34][35] It was reported on 14 November 2011, that Maccabi also agreed to terms with Israeli NBAsmall forwardOmri Casspi, to join the team in several weeks.[36] However, the end of the NBA lockout, and the 25 December 2011 start date for the 2011–12 season, brought Casspi and Farmar back from Tel Aviv, to join their NBA teams (Cleveland and Brooklyn, respectively).
Maccabi Tel Aviv ended the season winning four titles: theIsraeli League Cup, theIsraeli State Cup, theIsraeli Super League, and theAdriatic League. In the 2012–13 season, Maccabi won theIsraeli League Cup and theIsraeli State Cup, and reached the EuroLeague playoffs, losing to Real Madrid 0:3. In theIsraeli Super League, Maccabi suffered a huge disappointment, as they lost toMaccabi Haifa 79:86 in the finals.
In the2013–14 EuroLeague season, Maccabi Tel Aviv finished first in their regular season group. The team went on to finish third in their top 16 group, leading to a best-of-5 playoff series againstEmporio Armani Milano, without thehome-court advantage.In the first game, Maccabi stunned the hosts from Milano, by turning a 7-point deficit, with 30 seconds remaining on the clock, into a 101–99 overtime victory.[37] Maccabi then won two home games, to win the series 3–1, and to secure its place in the2014 EuroLeague Final Four.
In the EuroLeague semifinals, Maccabi came from behind to defeat the heavily favored CSKA Moscow, with a last-second basket, after CSKA had been up by 15 points late in the game.Tyrese Rice scored the game-winninglay-up, with 5.5 seconds to go.[38]
Maccabi Tel Aviv head coachDavid Blatt admitted after the semifinal that Maccabi had overshot every possible expectation during the season. When asked if the sky was the limit, Blatt said that "in this storm of a season, Maccabi long ago touched the sky, and reached the moon".
On 18 May 2014, Maccabi Tel Aviv won its sixth EuroLeague championship, after it defeated Real Madrid, by a score of 98–86, in overtime, to win the EuroLeague championship.[39] Tyrese Rice was named theEuroLeague Final Four MVP. The game received worldwide media attention, after in response to Real Madrid's loss to Maccabi, over 18,000anti-Semitic messages were posted onTwitter, in an outpouring of hatred againstJews.[40] Maccabi entered theEuroLeague Finals as an underdog, with few expecting the team to even make it into the EuroLeague Final Four, let alone to go all the way and win the championship.[41]
Following the success of winning the EuroLeague championship, Maccabi Tel Aviv's head coach David Blatt was hired to be the head coach of the NBA'sCleveland Cavaliers.[42] Blatt's assistant,Guy Goodes was then appointed as his replacement at Maccabi.
After winning the 2014 Euroleague Championship, Maccabi Tel Aviv was invited by FIBA to play2014 FIBA Intercontinental Cup against Brazil's Flamengo,[43] who won the2014 FIBA Americas League. The two-game aggregate score tournament took place at the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 26–28 September 2014, to determine the champion.[44] After beating Flamengo at the first game by 69–66, Maccabi lost the second game by 90–77. The aggregate score was 156–146, which made Flamengo the 2014 FIBA International Cup champion. Guy Goodes was Maccabi's coach at these two games.
Head coach David Blatt left Maccabi to coach the Cleveland Cavaliers. Assistant coach Guy Goodes was promoted to head coach. In the 2014–15 season, Maccabi Tel Aviv was defeated 2–3 in the Super League Semifinals byHapoel Eilat. It was the first time in 22 years that Maccabi would not play in the Finals.[45] In the EuroLeague, Maccabi lost in the playoffs toFenerbahçe Ülker 0:3.
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Starting from the 2015–16 season, the team was named MaccabiFOX Tel Aviv, referring to the new main fashion line sponsor. New players were signed, including some proven players such asTaylor Rochestie andVítor Faverani. Jordan Farmar returned, and prospectDragan Bender gained more playing time as well.
After a slow start in the EuroLeague (1–3) and Israeli League (3–2), head coach Goodes was sacked on 9 November 2015.[46] On 14 November,Žan Tabak signed a deal to become the head coach of Maccabi.[47] Tabak lead the team to an Israeli Cup victory. Maccabi Tel Aviv was eventually eliminated from the EuroLeague after the regular season, and played in the2015–16 Eurocup Basketball Last 32 phase, but failed to qualify for the playoffs after a loss at home toBC Nizhny Novgorod. The Israeli League season proved to be a disaster, when Maccabi was eliminated in the semifinal for the second consecutive season, this time by the eventual champions inMaccabi Rishon LeZion. This started a three-year spell of not doing well in either league.
The 2016–17 season was even worse for Maccabi Tel Aviv. During the summer, solid players such asSonny Weems andAndrew Goudelock were signed, in hopes that they would lead Maccabi back to glory.Erez Edelstein was named the head coach. However, the season began with difficulties in both the Israeli League, and with losses in the EuroLeague, and Edelstein was fired. AssistantRami Hadar briefly served as coach, before resigning after a series of losses, and Maccabi hiredAinars Bagatskis, who served as David Blatt's assistant inDarüşşafaka, as the new head coach. While Maccabi won the Israeli Cup with a win over rivalHapoel Jerusalem, in the EuroLeague, Maccabi finished in 14th place in the new format, while only finishing in 4th place in the Israeli League regular season. Bagatskis was fired just before the playoffs, withArik Shivek becoming the new head coach for Maccabi. Maccabi made the2017 Israeli Basketball Super League Final Four, but suffered a shocking loss to Maccabi Haifa in the semifinals, on the homeMenora Mivtachim Arena floor. After the season, longtime playerDevin Smith, with the team since the 2011–12 season, announced his retirement.
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Neven Spahija returned to Maccabi Tel Aviv as the new head coach, having coached the team in the 2006–07 season. Forming a completely new team, Maccabi had a successful season – in the Euroleague, Maccabi fought for most of the season for a place in the playoffs, falling short only in the end, but finishing in 10th place, a huge improvement from the previous Euroleague seasons. In Israel, while Maccabi lost the Israeli State Cup for the first time since 2008, toHapoel Holon, Maccabi won the Israel League Cup. In the Israeli League, Maccabi finished in 1st place in the regular season, and dominated in the playoffs, finishing by winning the2018 Israeli Basketball Premier League Final Four, defeating Hapoel Tel Aviv 98:74 in the semifinals, and crushing Cup winner Hapoel Holon 95:75 in the finals, winning their first Israeli League since 2014.Alex Tyus was named the MVP.
For the 2018–19 season Maccabi Tel Aviv had high hopes. Coach Spahija started the season, but after four consecutive losses and a 1–6 start to the2018–19 EuroLeague Season, Maccabi fired Spahija and hiredIoannis Sfairopoulos as the head coach. Maccabi improved, and nearly qualified for the Euroleague playoffs, though a few losses in the end prevented the team from qualification. Maccabi finished 10th. While Maccabi lost both Cup tournaments, they dominated the Israeli League – winning both 1st place in the regular season, and the2019 Israeli Basketball Premier League Final Four tournament, held in Tel Aviv, to win the Israeli League for the second consecutive season, withJohn DiBartolomeo winning the MVP award.
In the 2020–21 season, Maccabi Tel Aviv started off with no fans in attendance due to theCOVID-19 pandemic in Israel, and got off to a rocky start, winning 14 out of 34 Euroleague games. In theWinner League, Maccabi beatHapoel Gilboa Galil to win theIsraeli finals series 2–1, to win its 55th championship.
Through the summer of 2021, Maccabi signedJalen Reynolds who had already played for the club, alongsideJames Nunnally andDerrick Williams.
Due to theRussian invasion of Ukraine, the records of all regular season matches against Russian teams were annulled, and team won-loss records adjusted accordingly, dramatically affecting league standings. In the case of Maccabi Tel Aviv, it had lost three of four games against the Russian teams.[48][49]
Due to theGaza war, Maccabi have played all home games atAleksandar Nikolic Hall inBelgrade, Serbia since the2023–24 EuroLeague season.
Yad Eliyahu Arena, for sponsorship reasons known as theMenora Mivtachim Arena, is located in theYad Eliyahu neighborhood inTel Aviv and has a capacity of 10,383. The arena has been serving as the team's home arena since 1964.
Due to the events of theGaza war, The EuroLeague detractive board decided that Maccabi will host its’ “home” games in theAleksandar Nikolić Hall inBelgrade,Serbia until all matters are resolved
In Yad Eliyahu Arena, Maccabi is followed by one organised group: "The GATE" which was founded in 2017 after the merger of two organized groups, the first one is "Gate 11" and the second one is "Gate 7".
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Points scored in the EuroLeague
Miki Berkovich – 3,588Doron Jamchi – 3,262
Kevin Magee – 2,081Aulcie Perry – 2,077Lou Silver – 1,999Anthony Parker – 1,804
Scottie Wilbekin – 1,801Derrick Sharp – 1,755
Nikola Vujčić – 1,730Devin Smith – 1,539Nadav Henefeld – 1,519Jim Boatwright – 1,481Tal Brody – 1,378David Blu – 1,244Earl Williams – 1,227Tal Burstein – 1,224Points scored in the Israeli League
Miki Berkovich – 6,060Tanhum Cohen-Mintz – 5,170Doron Jamchi – 4,896Tal Brody – 4,049Kevin Magee – 3,215Lou Silver – 3,195Ralph Klein – 2,817Derrick Sharp – 2,664Nadav Henefeld – 2,438Jim Boatwright – 2,282Motti Daniel – 2,281Aulcie Perry – 2,171Motti Aroesti – 2,067Tal Burstein – 2,043Micha Schwartz – 1,963Total titles: 115
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The club's website also offers a narrative abouttheir history vs NBA teams, as well as theirfirst victory in 1978.
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2020s
Jaylen Hoard 1 seasons: '24 - '25
Rokas Jokubaitis 1 seasons: '24– '25Bonzie Colson 2 seasons: ‘22 - ‘24
Josh Nebo 2 seasons: ‘22 - ‘24
Lorenzo Brown 2 seasons: ‘22 - ‘24Scottie Wilbekin 4 seasons: ‘18 - ‘22Wade Baldwin IV 2 seasons: ‘23 - ‘24Ante Zizic 2 seasons: ‘20 - '22Derrick Williams 1 seasons: ‘21 - '222010s
Tyler Dorsey2 seasons: '19-'21Elijah Bryant2 seasons: '19-'21
Othello Hunter2 seasons: '19-'21Nate Wolters2 seasons: '19-'20Tarik Black2 seasons: '18-'20Johnny O'Bryant III1 season: '18-'19
Deni Avdija3 seasons: '17-'20
DeAndre Kane2 seasons: '17-'19
Michael Roll2 seasons: '17-'19
Jonah Bolden1 season: '17-'18Deshaun Thomas1 season: '17-'18Norris Cole1 season: '17-'18Pierre Jackson1 season: '17-'18Andrew Goudelock1 season: '16-'17Yovel Zoosman5 seasons: '15-'21Brian Randle2 seasons: '14-'16
Tyrese Rice1 season: '13-'14Joe Ingles1 season: '13-'14Alex Tyus4 seasons: '13-'15, '17-'19
Ricky Hickman2 seasons: '12-'14Itay Segev4 seasons: '12-'13, '15-'18Sylven Landesberg5 seasons: '12-'17Devin Smith6 seasons: '11-'17Yogev Ohayon6 seasons: '11-'17Shawn James3 seasons: '11-'14Jordan Farmar2 seasons: '11, '15-'16Keith Langford1 season: '11-'12Sofoklis Schortsanitis4 seasons: '10-'12, '13-'15Jeremy Pargo4 seasons: '10-'11, '14-'15, '18-'19
Richard Hendrix3 seasons: '10-'12, '16Gal Mekel3 seasons: '09-'10, '16-'17Guy Pnini8 seasons: '09-17Doron Perkins2 seasons: '09-'11Chuck Eidson2 seasons: '09-'11Alan Anderson1 season: '09-'10D'or Fischer2 seasons: '08-'10
Carlos Arroyo1 season: '08-'09Marcus Brown1 season: '08-'09Terence Morris1 season: '07-'08Lior Eliyahu6 seasons: '06-'09, '10-'13Will Bynum2 seasons: '06-'08Omri Casspi5 seasons: '05-'09, '19-21Jamie Arnold2 seasons: '05-'07Yaniv Green6 seasons: '04-'07, '08-'11Maceo Baston3 seasons: '03-'06Will Solomon1 season: '05-'06Šarūnas Jasikevičius2 seasons: '03-'05Deon Thomas2 seasons: '03-'05David Blu7 seasons: '02-'04, '07-'08, '09-'14Nikola Vujčić6 seasons: '02-'08Beno Udrih1 season: '02-'03Yotam Halperin6 seasons: '01-'05, '06-'08Tal Burstein11 seasons: '00-'09, '10-'12Anthony Parker5 seasons: '00-'02, '03-'06Nate Huffman3 seasons: '99-'02Ariel McDonald3 seasons: '99-'02Mark Brisker3 seasons: '99-'02Gur Shelef7 seasons: '98-'05Rashard Griffith1 season: '97-'98Derrick Sharp15 seasons: '96-'11Doron Sheffer5 seasons: '96-'00, '02-'03
Constantin Popa4 seasons: '96-'00Velibor Radović4 seasons: '96-'99, '00-'01Randy White2 seasons: '96-'98Oded Kattash4 seasons: '95-'99Brad Leaf3 seasons: '95-'98Tom Chambers1 season: '95-'96Radisav Ćurčić4 seasons: '94-'96, '00-'02Wendell Alexis1 season: '93-'94David Ancrum1 season: '92-'93Nadav Henefeld12 seasons: '91-'02Guy Goodes8 seasons: '90-'97, '98-'99LaVon Mercer6 seasons: '88-'94Motti Daniel9 seasons: '87-'96Willie Sims5 seasons: '87-'92Ken Barlow3 season: '87-'90Doron Jamchi12 seasons: '85-'96, '99-'00Kevin Magee6 season: '84-'90Lee Johnson3 season: '84-'87Hen Lippin9 season: '83-'92Howard Lassoff6 season: '81-'87Earl Williams4 seasons: '79-'83Shmuel Zysman3 seasons: '78-'81Aulcie Perry9 seasons: '76-'85Shuki Schwartz5 seasons: '76-'81Lou Silver10 seasons: '75-'85Bob Griffin3 seasons: '75-'78Motti Aroesti14 seasons: '74-'88Jim Boatwright8 seasons: '74-'82Eric Minkin6 seasons: '73-'79Miki Berkovich16 seasons: '71-'88Ronald Green2 seasons: '70-'71Gabi Noimark8 seasons: '67-'75Micha Schwartz9 seasons: '67-'76Tal Brody14 seasons: '66-'80Avraham Hoffman5 seasons: '63-'68Haim Shtarkman13 seasons: '63-'76Amnon Avidan9 seasons: '62-'71Shabtai Ben-Basat9 seasons: '57-'69Tanhum Cohen-Mintz14 seasons: '58-'72Abraham Shneior5 seasons: '54-'59Ralph Klein12 seasons: '53-'65Brody.
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