Maccabi Tel Aviv Wins 58th Israeli Basketball Championship
Translated & summarized from Channel 13 by baba
Maccabi Tel Aviv beat Hapoel 81-79 on Tuesday to win the Israeli basketball championship 3-1. It was the club’s 58th title, after winning the first two games and losing Game 3 before closing out the series in Game 4.
The story in 5 lines · by baba
- Maccabi Tel Aviv beat Hapoel 81-79 in Game 4 to win the title 3-1.
- The championship was Maccabi’s 58th in club history.
- Maccabi had won the first two games and lost Game 3 before clinching on Tuesday.
- Dimitris Itoudis’s Hapoel failed to force a fifth and deciding game.
- Lonnie Walker, Roman Sorkin and Jasiel Rivero led Maccabi, while Yam Madar and Tomer Ginat stood out for Hapoel.
Maccabi Tel Aviv captured the Israeli basketball title on Tuesday night after edging Hapoel in the city derby, 81-79, to seal the best-of-five final 3-1. It is the club’s 58th championship in its history.
Maccabi had opened the series with a dominant 96-75 win and then took the second game 102-98, but it lost the third game 80-74 and missed a chance to clinch a clean sweep and celebrate at home on Sunday. Hapoel, coached by Dimitris Itoudis, was trying to force a fifth and deciding game and keep its title hopes alive.
Lonnie Walker, Roman Sorkin and Jasiel Rivero led Maccabi in a tight contest decided in the fourth quarter. For Hapoel, Yam Madar and Tomer Ginat stood out, but they could not become the first team in Israeli basketball history to erase a 2-0 deficit in a championship series.
The result ensures that Israeli basketball’s top trophy stays in Maccabi Tel Aviv’s crowded cabinet. Last year’s final between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Jerusalem was stopped at 1-1, and the decisive game was canceled because of Operation With the Lion, leaving the season without a champion.
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