Mayor slams Maccabi Tel Aviv: 'Drying Israeli players' | Israel Hayom

After 18 years, Hapoel Tel Aviv returned to the playoff final yesterday by beating Hapoel Jerusalem 68:77 to complete a 0-2 victory in the series. The Reds will meet Maccabi Tel Aviv in the final in a best-of-three system, with the first match taking place on Thursday at 21:00.

One person who is particularly excited about the Tel Aviv series is Givatayim Mayor Ran Connick, who tweeted tonight what he thinks about the city's senior team. "A derby in the basketball finals, not only between two Tel Aviv teams, but between one team that promotes Israeli players, whose lineup includes the Israeli Player of the Year and the sixth player of the league, which is coached by a modest Israeli coach who unfortunately is underappreciated and who has been doing wonders almost every season for years, and the 'State Team,' a country that dries Israeli players on the bench.

"And if that's not enough to understand, the youth soccer team reminded us of what the reserve basketball team did before it, but. For those who don't want to, they have a short memory."

A derby in the basketball finals, not only between two Tel Aviv teams, but between one team that promotes Israeli players, whose lineup includes the Israeli player of the year and the sixth player of the league, which is coached by a modest @FrancoachD Israeli coach who unfortunately is not appreciated enough and who has been doing wonders almost every season for years, and the "country's team", Medina...

— Ren Connick (@kunikran) June 4, 2023

Needless to say, the tweet caused an online storm and a high number of comments from angry users. "Very embarrassing," wrote one user, "Maccabi with the most minutes for clueless Israelis like you. I'm sure you don't know the basic rules of the game."

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Another tweeter added: "You'd better post a message that your user has been hacked...".

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