The magical journey of Kiryat Ata urbanites continues.
The wonderful season of Sharon Abrahami and his apprentices received another impressive milestone this evening (Sunday) after an impressive and dramatic home victory over Hapoel Jerusalem with a score of 74:76.
The humble team from the Kiryat that managed to beat Maccabi Tel Aviv, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Hapoel Holon this year, added another impressive victory to its resume and justified the title it won this season - "the black sheep of the greats".
The game was close throughout, with the red side in the lead for most of the minutes of the fourth quarter.
Raz Adam's big three-pointer in the closing seconds gave the host the impressive victory and inflicted the first loss of the season on Hapoel Jerusalem in the Elias Kanzouris era.
Raz Adam and James Bateman led the winning scorers with 15 points each.
Danny Franco.
His team continues to provide good basketball, photo: Danny Maron
Hapoel Tel Aviv continues to be eager and this evening (Sunday) had no difficulty defeating Hapoel Haifa 84:103.
Dani Franco's side continue to lead the table with a record of 1:10, with their faces now turned to the very important Eurocup game against Besiktas on Wednesday.
In the first half, the bottom team from Haifa was still in the game, but in the third quarter came the escape.
The story of the game is the number of assists of the Reds.
Hapoel handed out 35 assists in this game - a new season record.
The players who recently returned from injury are getting in good shape.
Jaylen Hurd finished with 29 points shooting 90 percent from the field and Jacob Brown finished with a double-double with 12 points and 10 assists.
For the loser, John Davis scored 17 and Amit Gershon added 16.
In another game: the newcomer Hapoel Afula stopped the streak of four victories of Bnei Herzliya and achieved an impressive home victory with a score of 64:65 over Dan Shamir's team.
Noam Avivi led the list of scorers for the host with 18 points.
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