An unusual incident occurred this evening (Tuesday) during Hapoel Tel Aviv’s victory over Bnei Herzliya at Hichal Shlomo. Towards the end of the third quarter, when the Reds had a promising lead, Reds coach Danny Franco took a timeout and began scolding his players. During the timeout, Franco shoved the sports channel’s linebacker, Noa Poplinger, who was present near the bench. He then added another movement and demanded that she move out of the area, while his assistant Barak Lederer also pushes her slightly.
Franco may be sued by the Basketball Association, if the Sports Channel, the body that broadcasts the Premier League basketball games, files a complaint once morest him following his conduct. Otherwise, only if the union prosecutor decides that his actions deviated from the norm, he will be prosecuted. This was not the only incident of the Reds in the game. Hapoel registered six Israelis and five foreigners to compete, but Dusty Hanas, the team’s new reinforcement player, is not counted among the number of Israelis for the minimum since he is a new citizen, and therefore Hapoel violated the regulations of the league administration.
Franco’s apology
I was wrong, period. apologetic. There are no excuses, and there is not a single person who knows me who would say that the timeout incident characterizes me. Never happened before and won’t happen once more. @HapoelTLVBC @Noapoplinger @sport5il @WinnerLeague pic.twitter.com/29BNiyQaDJ
— Danny Franco (@FrancoachD) March 5, 2024
Danny Franco commented on the incident and said: “I’ll start by apologizing to Poppy for interrupting me during an uneasy time, I’m usually a very nice person, today I was less nice and that’s not okay. It hasn’t happened to date and it won’t happen. I close it with this, who Whoever is involved here knows me well enough. I mean it.”
“We have another game in Eilat on Friday, it’s important for us to go down there and build up there properly,” Franco added, “to come next Wednesday with more connection and better personal fitness. To feel that we can exhaust the level of preparation. We have many players who are recovering, but this The challenge, we like challenges and we will stand up to them. Glad the audience enjoyed the game, it was a fun and rhythmic game, we enjoyed playing it, except for some nonsense we did with Tyler Stone”
Will he be punished for the incident? Danny Franco Danny Maron
“An honest mistake in the interpretation of the regulations led to the non-registration of Israeli Shishi. We acknowledge the mistake and apologize for it,” the club admitted in an official statement. The Reds are expected to be fined following the mistake, as Maccabi Tel Aviv will incur for similar conduct in the victory over Maccabi Ramat Gan from last week.
Assisted in the preparation of the article: Ohad Scheuerman
