Oded Katash carved out a career for himself as one of the most successful Israeli basketball players of his generation.
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Oded Katash carved out a career for himself as one of the most successful Israeli basketball players of his generation during the '90s. At one point he seemed destined to star in the NBA when he was signed by the New York Knicks. However fate took a cruel turn and he never appeared for the New York outfit after the season lockout that took place in the 1998-'99 season. Katash was a point guard by trade and was most heavily associated with Maccabi Tel Aviv whom he joined at the age of nine. The partnership between player and club was to flourish and in the '90s Katash helped Israel's perennial champion win four league championships and two State Cups. But the player whom Tel Aviv nourished was to be its own worst enemy when Maccabi faced Katash's new club, Greek side Panathiniakos, in the 2000 Euroleague final. Katash blazed up the court, scoring 17 points in a dynamic display that would bring the trophy to Athens. After Katash's career was cut short by a serious knee injury later that year he went into coaching, a sphere in which he has had varied success. After coaching Hapoel Galil Elyon to the Final Four in the 2006/7 season he lasted less than a season before resigning from his new post at Maccabi Tel Aviv in January.
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