{"id":474722,"date":"2025-12-17T17:43:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=474722"},"modified":"2025-12-17T17:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:43:24","slug":"elijah-bryant-and-antonio-blakeney-close-to-new-deals-as-hapoel-tel-aviv-plans-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/elijah-bryant-and-antonio-blakeney-close-to-new-deals-as-hapoel-tel-aviv-plans-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Elijah Bryant and Antonio Blakeney Close to New Deals as Hapoel Tel Aviv Plans for the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hapoel Tel Aviv is already looking ahead to the future and appear to be close to locking up Elijah Bryant with a lucrative contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>The guard\u2019s current deal runs through June 2028, with an annual salary of about $2.8 million and an opt-out clause that can be exercised as early as next summer.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sport5.co.il\/articles.aspx?FolderID=405&amp;docID=528161&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=sport5&amp;utm_content=rss\">Noa Poplinger of Sport5.co.il<\/a>, the Israeli club has made Bryant an offer that would keep him with the team through the end of the 2028\/29 season, remove the exit clause, and include a significant salary increase.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Antonio Blakeney is also in negotiations over a new contract. The talented scorer, who currently earns $1.4 million per season and is under contract through the end of the 2026\/27 campaign, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sport5.co.il\/articles.aspx?FolderID=405&amp;docID=528161&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=sport5&amp;utm_content=rss\"><em>The Sports Channel<\/em><\/a> last night after the win over Red Star Belgrade \u2014 a game in which he scored five crucial points in the fourth quarter \u2014: \u201cAs far as I\u2019m concerned, I love Israel and I would like to stay. This place feels like home to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bryant and Blakeney are Hapoel Tel Aviv\u2019s two leading scorers in the EuroLeague, averaging 15.4 and 13.5 points per game, respectively.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"359\" data-end=\"707\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-474720 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/hhh-1024x158.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"158\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli team sits alone at the top of the EuroLeague standings with 12 wins in 16 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":474719,"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-474722","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\/12\/STP02335.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474722","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474722"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=474722"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=474722"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=474722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}