<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Yotam Halperin will play for Maccabi Tel Aviv next season after signing a new threeyear contract with the team on Tuesday. Halperin grabbed most of the attention at Maccabi's season-opening press conference Tuesday evening in which all of Tel Aviv's new players and coaches were introduced. The 22-year-old guard was the subject of intensive speculation in recent weeks that claimed he may be joining the Seattle SuperSonics of the NBA. However, Halperin ended the uncertainty about his future on Tuesday with the signing of his new contract. "I'm coming home," he said at the press conference. "I've decided that this is the best place for me and therefore I'm staying. The NBA remains a dream, at least for this season, and now I'm only thinking of achieving success with Maccabi." Halperin is the latest part of Maccabi's rebuilding process, with the team replacing its entire coaching staff and adding five new players. One of the new players is American guard Will Bynum. "There is a good atmosphere in the club. There are excellent players here," Bynum said Tuesday. "There is pressure everywhere, but I'm ready. I want to win wherever I play." </div> Source
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Shard:</div><div class="quote_post">No worries, we have Nikolas Tshkishvili (too lazy to find correct spelling/don't care).</div> Just refer to him as Skita
A better title for this article should have been, "Halperin Fabricates a Sonics Offer to Secure Maccabi Deal." How can he choose Maccabi over Seattle when he was never offered a guaranteed deal from the Sonics? Good for him though because he wasn't going to maximize his earning potential trying to make our roster. I'm wondering if we are going to bring in a third point guard? We are definitely the thinnest at that position.
