{"id":446963,"date":"2025-06-18T16:23:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=446963"},"modified":"2025-06-18T16:23:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:23:56","slug":"tensions-in-israel-freeze-basketball-market-oturu-bryant-and-u19-team-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/tensions-in-israel-freeze-basketball-market-oturu-bryant-and-u19-team-in-limbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tensions in Israel Freeze Basketball Market: Oturu, Bryant and U19 Team in Limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"304\" data-end=\"602\">The escalating conflict between <strong data-start=\"351\" data-end=\"370\">Israel and Iran<\/strong> has brought professional basketball activities in Israel to a standstill. The domestic league was <strong data-start=\"469\" data-end=\"511\">cut short without declaring a champion<\/strong>, and all teams\u2014<strong data-start=\"527\" data-end=\"565\">except Maccabi and Hapoel Tel Aviv<\/strong>\u2014have frozen their market operations.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"604\" data-end=\"1122\">Two high-profile names, <strong data-start=\"628\" data-end=\"644\">Daniel Oturu<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"649\" data-end=\"666\">Elijah Bryant<\/strong>, are currently under contract with Hapoel Tel Aviv. Despite speculation, <strong data-start=\"740\" data-end=\"788\">neither has requested a contract termination<\/strong>, and both agreements remain active. However, several EuroLeague clubs are monitoring the situation, hoping to make a move if either player becomes available. Still, precedent shows it\u2019s not easy to break a deal under these conditions\u2014as seen last year when Jonathan Motley attempted to leave Hapoel but was ultimately forced to stay.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1124\" data-end=\"1447\">Meanwhile, <strong data-start=\"1135\" data-end=\"1165\">Israel\u2019s U19 national team<\/strong> is facing uncertainty ahead of the <strong data-start=\"1201\" data-end=\"1234\">FIBA World Cup in Switzerland<\/strong>. The <strong data-start=\"1240\" data-end=\"1279\">FIBA has issued a 24-hour ultimatum<\/strong>, requesting an official document confirming Israel&#8217;s participation. With the nation\u2019s airspace restricted, it&#8217;s unclear whether the team will be able to travel at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Middle East conflict has halted Israeli basketball operations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":445875,"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":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-446963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-israel","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/2024Degaspari24Ottobre152.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446963","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=446963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446963"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=446963"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=446963"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=446963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}