Hapoel Holon has announced the signing of T.J. Holyfield<\/strong>, 31, 2.03 meters, on a temporary contract as the team deals with a series of injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Holyfield spent last season with the Lioneers in Taiwan<\/strong>, averaging 11.2 points and 8 rebounds<\/strong> per game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before that, he played two seasons for Yamagata<\/strong> in Japan’s B2 League, posting 14 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists and 1.6 steals<\/strong> per game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Holyfield began his European professional career with Kaarina in Finland<\/strong> before moving to Germany to join Oldenburg<\/strong>, where he spent two seasons and also played in the Basketball Champions League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He completed his college career at Texas Tech<\/strong>, averaging 9 points, 5 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before transferring to Texas Tech, Holyfield spent three seasons at Stephen F. Austin<\/strong>, where he was one of the team’s leading players and was named to the All-Defensive Team twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hapoel Holon head coach Predrag Kruni\u0107<\/strong> praised Holyfield’s versatility:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00abT.J. Holyfield is a player who can play both frontcourt positions. He is a team player with strong defense, a good passer and rebounder, and he has good shooting ability from both two- and three-point range.\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Sporting director Daniel Ravitz<\/strong> also highlighted his ability to play both the 4 and 5 positions<\/strong>, describing him as a smart, mobile player who can defend very well and contribute both inside and outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ravitz explained that Holon needed to react quickly following the latest two injuries to foreign big men Greg and Brandon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Holyfield will land in Israel today and join the team’s practices after completing his medical examination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Israeli club has moved quickly to address its injury crisis, signing 31-year-old forward T.J. Holyfield on a temporary contract. The 2.03-meter player will arrive in Israel today and join the team after completing his medical tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":548374,"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":[195,255],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-548376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball-champions-league","category-israel","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-official","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-08-alle-10.31.18.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548376","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548377,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548376\/revisions\/548377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548376"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=548376"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=548376"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=548376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}European experience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Kruni\u0107: \u00abHe can play two frontcourt positions\u00bb<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Signed after injuries to Greg and Brandon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n