{"id":269904,"date":"2026-02-02T07:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/269904\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:24:07","slug":"deni-avdija-becomes-first-israeli-selected-for-nba-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/269904\/","title":{"rendered":"Deni Avdija Becomes First Israeli Selected For NBA All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Israeli NBA forward Deni Avdija was selected Sunday night for the NBA All-Star Game, marking a historic milestone in his career and a rare achievement for Israeli basketball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Avdija earned one of 24 roster spots following a standout season with the Portland Trail Blazers. He will represent the Western Conference at the All-Star Game on February 15 in Los Angeles, alongside stars including Nikola Jokic, Luka Doncic, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Drafted to the NBA in 2020, <a data-is=\"component-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/international\/americas\/artc-israeli-basketball-star-pushes-back-on-political-labels-judge-me-by-my-game\" title=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/international\/americas\/artc-israeli-basketball-star-pushes-back-on-political-labels-judge-me-by-my-game\" target=\"\" class=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Avdija<\/a> is enjoying the strongest season of his career and has emerged as one of the league\u2019s most talked-about players. His performances have driven a sharp rise in attention this season, with a record-breaking 34,911 mentions in January, reflecting his growing significance in the NBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli NBA forward Deni Avdija was selected Sunday night for the NBA All-Star Game, marking a historic milestone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-269904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}