{"id":492664,"date":"2026-04-13T10:57:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=492664"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:57:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:57:39","slug":"jimmy-clark-confirms-nba-interest-but-leaves-door-open-to-maccabi-tel-aviv-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jimmy-clark-confirms-nba-interest-but-leaves-door-open-to-maccabi-tel-aviv-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Clark confirms NBA interest but leaves door open to Maccabi Tel Aviv return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1679\" data-end=\"2040\"><strong data-start=\"1679\" data-end=\"1694\">Jimmy Clark<\/strong> has confirmed for the first time that he has received interest from <strong data-start=\"1763\" data-end=\"1770\">NBA<\/strong> teams, while still keeping the door open to remain with <strong data-start=\"1827\" data-end=\"1847\">Maccabi Tel Aviv<\/strong>. After a breakout season, the guard said: \u201c<strong data-start=\"1891\" data-end=\"1949\">Playing in the NBA has been my dream since I was a kid<\/strong>,\u201d adding that he feels \u201c<strong data-start=\"1974\" data-end=\"2038\">lucky that big teams in the best league in the world want me<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2042\" data-end=\"2403\">Clark also addressed his future in Israel and made it clear that a return remains possible. \u201c<strong data-start=\"2135\" data-end=\"2219\">I would be more than happy to come back for another season with Maccabi Tel Aviv<\/strong>,\u201d he said, while noting that everything will depend on how things develop during the summer. His words confirm a strong connection with the club despite the growing overseas interest.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2405\" data-end=\"2671\">From a team perspective, Clark also showed confidence in Maccabi\u2019s chances to finish the season strongly. After the EuroLeague disappointment, he believes the team can still win the domestic title: \u201c<strong data-start=\"2604\" data-end=\"2669\">Yes, without a doubt. We can and want to win the championship<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1308\" data-end=\"1329\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelhayom.co.il\/sport\/israeli-basketball\/article\/20313375\"><em data-start=\"1308\" data-end=\"1329\">Fonte: Israel Hayom<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guard admitted he has received interest from NBA teams and called the league his lifelong dream<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":492663,"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":[199,255,399],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-492664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-israel","category-nba","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/Jimmy-Clark-Iii-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492664","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=492664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492664"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=492664"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=492664"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=492664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}