Maccabi Tel-Aviv (basketball) - Definition

Maccabi Tel-Aviv (מכבי תל-אביב) is a basketball team based in Tel-Aviv, Israel. It is part of the Maccabi Tel Aviv sports club.

Maccabi Tel-Aviv is without doubt Israel's best basketball team (having won the Israeli championship 43 times), and among Europe's best basketball teams, having won the European cup 4 times since 1977, and finishing second 6 other times.

Maccabi's first European championship was in 1977. In the words of its captain Tal Brody, this win put Maccabi on the map to stay. Maccabi won European championships again in 1981, 2001 (Suproleague), and in 2004 (Euroleague).

In May 2004, Maccabi's latest Euroleague victory, it beat Skipper Bologna in the final game in an unprecedented landslide (118:74).

Trophies and Titles

• Domestic championships: 44.
• Domestic cups: 34.
• European championships: 1977, 1981, 2001, 2004 (4).

Known players

Past players:

• Miki Berkovich
• Tal Brody
• Aulcie Perry
• Moti Aroesti
• Oded Kattash
• Nadav Henefeld
• Doron Jamchi (Israel's top scorer)
• Nate Huffman

Current players:

• Derrick Sharp
• Sarunas Jasikevicius ("Sharas")
• Anthony Parker
• Tal Burstein
• Nikola Vujcic
• Maceo Baston

External link

• Maccabi Tel-Aviv Basketball Club (http://www.maccabi.co.il/english.asp) homepage
• Maccabi Tel-Aviv set many new records in the Final Four victory (http://www.euroleague.net/finalfour04/noticia.jsp?temporada=E03&jornada=22&id=684) (Euroleague)

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