{"id":497434,"date":"2026-05-19T12:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=497434"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:24:18","slug":"ofer-yannay-hapoel-tel-aviv-is-better-than-panathinaikos-and-valencia-but-we-wont-be-at-the-f4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ofer-yannay-hapoel-tel-aviv-is-better-than-panathinaikos-and-valencia-but-we-wont-be-at-the-f4\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofer Yannay: \u201cHapoel Tel Aviv is better than Panathinaikos and Valencia, but we won\u2019t be at the F4&#8243;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1296\" data-end=\"1438\"><strong data-start=\"1296\" data-end=\"1311\">Ofer Yannay<\/strong> once again addressed <strong data-start=\"1333\" data-end=\"1354\">Hapoel Tel Aviv\u2019s<\/strong> European ambitions, insisting on the level of his team after the EuroLeague season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1440\" data-end=\"1686\">Speaking to <strong data-start=\"1452\" data-end=\"1468\">Sports Walla<\/strong>, Hapoel\u2019s owner commented on the Panathinaikos-Valencia series: \u201cI watched Panathinaikos against Valencia. We are much better than both Panathinaikos and Valencia. But Valencia will be at the Final Four and we won\u2019t\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1688\" data-end=\"1893\">Yannay also discussed the chances of securing a stable EuroLeague contract: \u201cZero chance, in my opinion. Zero chance they would have given us another EuroLeague spot if we had not finished in the top six\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1895\" data-end=\"2128\">The Hapoel owner also mentioned the <strong data-start=\"1931\" data-end=\"1945\">NBA Europe<\/strong> scenario: \u201cNext year, either we secure franchise status in the EuroLeague, or maybe Adam Silver decides to invite Israel to join NBA Europe and then we will have a chance there too\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2130\" data-end=\"2270\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ofer Yannay once again addressed Hapoel Tel Aviv\u2019s European ambitions, insisting on the level of his team after the EuroLeague season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":490854,"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],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-497434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/IMG_3500.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497434","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=497434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497434"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=497434"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=497434"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=497434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}