Hapoel Tel Aviv owner Ofer Yannay gave an interview to the club\u2019s official channels, revealing a sensational transfer story. The Israeli club was reportedly very close to signing Nigel Hayes-Davis, the recent MVP of the EuroLeague Final Four. Below are his statements.<\/p>\n
Yannay\u2019s words<\/strong>: \u201c<\/em>We were certain we would bring in Nigel Hayes-Davis. We were convinced it would happen. He had an option in the NBA and, in fact, told us he would join us only if he failed to secure a contract overseas. We talked about it and that\u2019s what was supposed to happen, but then Phoenix offered him $7.5 million per season and promised 15 minutes per game.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Hapoel Tel Aviv thus came close to pulling off a major signing this past summer, and next season will compete in the EuroLeague as the reigning EuroCup champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hapoel Tel Aviv owner Ofer Yannay reveals that the Israeli club was very close to signing Nigel Hayes-Davis, the recent MVP of the EuroLeague Final Four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":397760,"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":[82,57,92],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-456598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-israele","category-nba","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/2022Degaspari24Novembre030.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456598","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456598"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=456598"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=456598"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=456598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}