{"id":452363,"date":"2025-07-21T10:48:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=452363"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:48:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:48:49","slug":"vasilije-micic-i-feel-safe-in-israel-this-is-the-right-time-to-be-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/vasilije-micic-i-feel-safe-in-israel-this-is-the-right-time-to-be-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Vasilije Micic: I feel safe in Israel. This is the right time to be here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"282\" data-end=\"598\"><strong data-start=\"282\" data-end=\"300\">Vasilije Micic<\/strong> has officially joined <strong data-start=\"323\" data-end=\"342\">Hapoel Tel Aviv<\/strong>. After signing a three-year, $18 million contract, the 31-year-old Serbian guard arrived in Israel and shared his excitement: \u201cI wanted to start something new, to join a team with a long-term vision. Tel Aviv is a beautiful city, and I\u2019m glad to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"600\" data-end=\"989\">Micic credited <strong data-start=\"615\" data-end=\"635\">Dimitris Itoudis<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"640\" data-end=\"655\">Ofer Yannay<\/strong> for making the move happen, and praised the team\u2019s growth: \u201cHapoel is now a solid EuroLeague team. We have a strong roster, and with the right mindset we can build something special.\u201d Regarding the situation in Israel, he calmly added: \u201cI come from a country that\u2019s seen difficult times. If you feel safe here, then I feel safe too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"991\" data-end=\"1227\">After a tough NBA journey with the Thunder, Hornets, Suns and Bucks, <strong data-start=\"1060\" data-end=\"1069\">Micic<\/strong> returns to Europe where he dominated with <strong data-start=\"1112\" data-end=\"1120\">Efes<\/strong>, winning two EuroLeague titles and being named MVP in 2021. Now, he\u2019s ready to write a new chapter in red.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Serbian star landed in Tel Aviv after signing a three-year deal with Hapoel: \u201cWe want to build a dynasty, with trust and hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":452362,"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],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-452363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/GwV5tcyXkAEDt7R.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452363","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=452363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452363"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=452363"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=452363"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=452363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}