{"id":487779,"date":"2026-03-12T15:57:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=487779"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:57:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:57:57","slug":"hapoel-tel-aviv-open-contract-extension-talks-with-ish-wainright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/hapoel-tel-aviv-open-contract-extension-talks-with-ish-wainright\/","title":{"rendered":"Hapoel Tel Aviv open contract extension talks with Ish Wainright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"205\" data-end=\"538\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C.<\/span><\/span> have opened negotiations to extend the contract of <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Ish Wainright<\/span><\/span>, according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sport5.co.il\/articles.aspx?FolderID=274&amp;docID=537061\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Sport5<\/span><\/span><\/a>. The forward is currently in his second season with the Israeli club and played an important role in the team\u2019s EuroCup success last season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"540\" data-end=\"784\">Hapoel are therefore looking to retain one of their key players. Despite the presence of several high-level talents on the roster, Wainright continues to be an important piece in the system of head coach <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Dimitris Itoudis<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"786\" data-end=\"925\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">So far in this season\u2019s <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">EuroLeague<\/span><\/span>, Wainright is averaging 4.6 points and 2.6 rebounds in 24.8 minutes per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The forward is in his second season with the Israeli club and was a key piece in last year\u2019s EuroCup triumph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":487778,"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-487779","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\/2026\/03\/P5A2649.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487779","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=487779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487779"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=487779"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=487779"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=487779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}