{"id":486104,"date":"2026-03-01T21:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486104"},"modified":"2026-03-01T21:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:19:11","slug":"maccabi-tel-aviv-ask-euroleague-to-postpone-hapoel-derby-amid-logistics-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/maccabi-tel-aviv-ask-euroleague-to-postpone-hapoel-derby-amid-logistics-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Maccabi Tel Aviv ask EuroLeague to postpone Hapoel derby amid logistics issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1745\" data-end=\"1987\">The Tel Aviv derby between <strong data-start=\"1772\" data-end=\"1783\">Maccabi<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1788\" data-end=\"1798\">Hapoel<\/strong> is not expected to be played in Israel due to the situation linked to the war with Iran, and now the original date is also in question, with tip-off set for <strong data-start=\"1956\" data-end=\"1986\">Thursday, March 5 at 21:05<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1989\" data-end=\"2331\">As reported by ONE, <strong data-start=\"2009\" data-end=\"2029\">Maccabi Tel Aviv<\/strong> have formally submitted a request to <strong data-start=\"2067\" data-end=\"2081\">EuroLeague<\/strong> to push the game back. Their situation is described as complicated, with foreign players reportedly stuck in <strong data-start=\"2191\" data-end=\"2200\">Dubai<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2202\" data-end=\"2217\">Will Rayman<\/strong> in Israel, and part of the staff \u2014 including the physio group \u2014 based in the country, leaving everyone scattered.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2333\" data-end=\"2778\">In contrast, <strong data-start=\"2346\" data-end=\"2365\">Hapoel Tel Aviv<\/strong> have already reached <strong data-start=\"2387\" data-end=\"2396\">Eilat<\/strong> and, if everything goes smoothly, are expected to be in <strong data-start=\"2453\" data-end=\"2463\">Athens<\/strong> tomorrow. A club source also took a swipe at Maccabi, saying: \u201c<strong data-start=\"2527\" data-end=\"2776\">We expect a decorated and well-run club like Maccabi to handle the required logistics just as Hapoel did, and not create major schedule congestion that would hurt teams\u2019 competitiveness. Some of us still have something to compete for this season<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1372\" data-end=\"1456\"><a href=\"https:\/\/m.one.co.il\/Mobile\/Article\/25-26\/2,17,1219,125901\/516147.html?ref=hp\"><em data-start=\"1372\" data-end=\"1388\">Source: <strong data-start=\"1380\" data-end=\"1387\">ONE<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The game scheduled for Thursday, March 5 (21:05) won\u2019t be played in Israel, and Hapoel respond with a pointed message<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":471520,"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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-israel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/STP09932.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486104","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=486104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486104"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486104"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486104"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}