Hapoel Tel Aviv announced that guard Yam Madar exercised his contract's exit clause, becoming a free agent and reportedly en route to rival Maccabi Tel Aviv. The club said it had offered Madar an unprecedented five-year deal but he declined, according to N12.
Hapoel Tel Aviv made a formal announcement late Tuesday confirming that star guard Yam Madar activated the exit clause in his contract, making him a free agent. The club said it had offered Madar a five-year contract described as unprecedented "in Israeli and European terms" in a final attempt to keep him, but the player turned it down.
All indications point to Madar crossing the city to Maccabi Tel Aviv, in what would be one of the most sensational moves in Israeli basketball in years. As The Zioneer reported on June 30, the dynamic guard's switch to the yellow-and-blue was already being framed as a near-certainty.
Another round of the perennial Hapoel-Maccabi rivalry for top Israeli talent now appears to be ending with the financially stronger club winning the latest battle — though some details of the deal remain to be finalized before any official confirmation.
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