{"id":429249,"date":"2025-02-19T14:52:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T13:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=429249"},"modified":"2025-02-19T14:52:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T13:52:41","slug":"maccabi-tel-aviv-signs-jimmy-clark-to-multi-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/maccabi-tel-aviv-signs-jimmy-clark-to-multi-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Maccabi Tel Aviv Signs Jimmy Clark to Multi-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1422\" data-end=\"1726\"><strong data-start=\"1422\" data-end=\"1442\">Maccabi Tel Aviv<\/strong> has officially signed <strong data-start=\"1465\" data-end=\"1484\">Jimmy Clark III<\/strong> to a <strong data-start=\"1490\" data-end=\"1522\">two-and-a-half-year contract<\/strong>, keeping him with the club through <strong data-start=\"1558\" data-end=\"1566\">2027<\/strong>. The <strong data-start=\"1572\" data-end=\"1592\">6\u20193\u201d combo guard<\/strong>, who turns <strong data-start=\"1604\" data-end=\"1619\">24 in April<\/strong>, impressed this season with <strong data-start=\"1648\" data-end=\"1660\">Herzliya<\/strong>, showcasing both scoring ability and elite defensive instincts.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1728\" data-end=\"1969\"><em data-start=\"1728\" data-end=\"1933\">&#8220;Jimmy Clark is a young player who has already proven his value on both ends of the court. He has the right mentality for us and significant upside, which makes this a key signing for the club\u2019s future,&#8221;<\/em> said <strong data-start=\"1939\" data-end=\"1966\">head coach Oded Kattash<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1971\" data-end=\"2317\">A <strong data-start=\"1973\" data-end=\"1996\">Duquesne University<\/strong> graduate, Clark led the <strong data-start=\"2021\" data-end=\"2047\">Atlantic 10 Conference<\/strong> in <strong data-start=\"2051\" data-end=\"2061\">steals<\/strong> for two straight seasons. With Herzliya this year, he averaged <strong data-start=\"2125\" data-end=\"2176\">14.5 points, 5.8 assists, and 2 steals per game<\/strong>, shooting <strong data-start=\"2187\" data-end=\"2212\">56.7% on two-pointers<\/strong>. Now, Maccabi hopes he can bolster its backcourt for the <strong data-start=\"2270\" data-end=\"2284\">EuroLeague<\/strong> and domestic league campaigns.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"iw\">\u05db\u05dc \u05d4\u05e4\u05e8\u05d8\u05d9\u05dd &gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AL4ad2pIqw\">https:\/\/t.co\/AL4ad2pIqw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZybuvGrVCw\">pic.twitter.com\/ZybuvGrVCw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maccabi Tel Aviv BC \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1\u200b (@MaccabiTLVBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaccabiTLVBC\/status\/1892183409700528512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Herzliya standout joins the Israeli Cup champions on a contract through 2027<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":429248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199,255],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-429249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-israel","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/GkJinuKXMAAHvWH.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429249"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=429249"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=429249"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=429249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}