{"id":182581,"date":"2025-07-16T21:05:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=182581"},"modified":"2025-07-16T21:05:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:05:47","slug":"vasa-moves-to-war-zone-micic-signs-for-hapoel-tel-aviv-israelis-prepare-serious-sum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/vasa-moves-to-war-zone-micic-signs-for-hapoel-tel-aviv-israelis-prepare-serious-sum\/","title":{"rendered":"VASA MOVES TO WAR ZONE: Mici\u0107 Signs for Hapoel Tel Aviv, Israelis Prepare Serious Sum!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Serbian basketball player <strong>Vasilije Mici\u0107<\/strong> is the newest member of Hapoel, the Tel Aviv club confirmed today, finally bringing to an end one of the longest and most uncertain transfer sagas of this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Israelis cast their &#8220;hook&#8221; for our national team player even before his NBA career concluded. For months, they listened for news from the United States, followed Phoenix&#8217;s moves, the trade to Charlotte, the forwarding to Milwaukee\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They offered big money, publicly expressing their determination to dig deep into their pockets for, at one time, the best basketball player in Europe. They waited and seized the moment to grab him, even though Fenerbah\u00e7e, Olympiacos, Real Madrid, and Crvena Zvezda were also in contention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udca5\ud83d\udea8Hapoel Tel Aviv will be the next team for 31-year-old Vasilije Micic!<br><br>\ud83d\udc49He is set to become one of the highest-paid players in league history. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bn6sogIuxe\">pic.twitter.com\/Bn6sogIuxe<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Eurohoops (@Eurohoopsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eurohoopsnet\/status\/1945383799405068407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mici\u0107&#8217;s Lucrative New Deal and EuroLeague Return<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Mici\u0107 will therefore be <strong>much, much richer<\/strong>, specifically (unofficially) by <strong>six million euros per season<\/strong> over a three-year contract. And, no less importantly, he will have the opportunity to play in the EuroLeague again, as the winner of the last EuroCup will be part of the elite in the 2025\/26 season, along with already acquired reinforcements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vasilije has won the EuroLeague twice with Turkish Efes. Before that, he also played for \u017dalgiris, Tofa\u015f, Crvena Zvezda, Bayern, and Mega, where he started his career. He left a mark everywhere, except in American clubs, where he never got a real chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">MORE TOPICS:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/when-brigitte-macron-was-a-man-heres-what-frances-first-lady-looked-like-when-her-name-was-jean-michel-photos-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">WHEN BRIGITTE MACRON WAS A MAN: Here\u2019s What France\u2019s First Lady Looked Like When Her Name Was Jean-Michel! 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The Israelis cast their &#8220;hook&#8221; for our national team player even before his NBA career concluded. For months, they listened for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":182582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7580,129,249,429,91,113,1393,1661],"class_list":["post-182581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-hapoel","tag-izrael","tag-kosarka-2","tag-kosarka","tag-sport","tag-srbija","tag-tel-aviv","tag-vasilije-micic","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182614,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182581\/revisions\/182614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}