Boaz Janay

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בועז ינאי

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1952|11|9}}

| birth_place = Nahalal, Israel

| nationality = Israeli

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| career_start = 1971

| career_end = 1989

| career_position = Center

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| years1 = 1971–1979

| team1 = Hapoel Gvat/Yagur

| years2 = 1979–1980

| team2 = Hapoel Tel Aviv

| years3 = 1980–1985

| team3 = Hapoel Afula

| years4 = 1986–1989

| team4 = Hapoel Gvat

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Israeli State Cup winner (1976)
Israeli Premier League Top Scorer (1979)

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Boaz Janay ({{Langx|he|בועז ינאי}}; also Yanay or Yanai; born November 9, 1952) is an Israeli former basketball player. He scored a total of 6,985 career points in the Israeli Premier League, which is the 4th-most points scored all-time in the league's history. He also represented the Israeli national team.

Club career

During his club career, Janay, who is 1.99 m (6'6 {{1/2}}") tall, played at the center position.{{Cite web|url=https://basket.co.il/player.asp?PlayerId=6367&lang=en|title=ISRAEL BASKETBALL SUPER LEAGUE | Israel Basketball | 1986-87 Season | Hapoel Gvat | Boaz Janay|website=basket.co.il}} Janay played a total of 16 seasons of club basketball in Israel. He played with the Israeli clubs Hapoel Gvat/Yagur, Hapoel Tel Aviv, and Hapoel Gilboa/Afula, between 1971 and 1989.{{Cite web|url=https://basket.co.il/all-time-players.asp?PlayerId=10009&lang=en|title=ISRAEL BASKETBALL SUPER LEAGUE | History | All-Time Player Points | Boaz Janay|website=basket.co.il}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.jpost.com/sports/sporting-heroes-for-60-years-no-41-boaz-yanai|title=Sporting Heroes for 60 Years: No. 41 Boaz Yanai; If there is one Israeli hoops star who truly proved you do not need to play for the perrenial champs in order to be one of the best, it is Boaz Yanai.|date=March 23, 2008|website=The Jerusalem Post }} During his Israeli club career, Janay scored 6,985 points, which is the 4th-most points scored in the history of the Israeli Premier League. His career scoring average in the Israeli Premier League was 20.2 points per game.

National team career

Janay was a member of the senior men's Israeli national team. At the 1977 Maccabiah Games, he won a silver medal with Team Israel.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/07/21/archives/us-quintet-captures-gold-at-maccabiahs.html | title=U.S. Quintet Captures Gold at Maccabiahs | newspaper=The New York Times | date=21 July 1977 }} He also won a gold medal with Israel at the 1974 Asian Games.

Janay also played with Israel at the following tournaments: 1971 FIBA European Championship, the 1972 FIBA European Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the 1973 FIBA European Championship, the 1975 FIBA European Championship, the 1976 FIBA European Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the 1977 FIBA European Championship, the 1979 FIBA European Championship, the 1980 FIBA European Olympic Qualifying Tournament, and the 1981 FIBA European Championship.{{Cite web|url=https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/rpp//q//pid/64215/_//players.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023080720/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/rpp/q/pid/64215/_/players.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 23, 2020|title=Boaz YANAY (ISR) |website=archive.fiba.com}}

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20230723112150/https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/q/pid/64215/_//players.html FIBA Archive Profile]
[https://www.maariv.co.il/MaarivNewsArticles/Article-464009קלע למטרה: כדורסלן העבר מסביר מה חסר היום לנבחרת], Maariv, February 18, 2015. {{in lang|he}}

Category:1952 births

Category:Living people

Category:Asian Games gold medalists for Israel

Category:Basketball players at the 1974 Asian Games

Category:Centers (basketball)

Category:Competitors at the 1977 Maccabiah Games

Category:Hapoel Gilboa/Afula players

Category:Hapoel Gvat/Yagur B.C. players

Category:Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C. players

Category:Israeli Basketball Premier League players

Category:Israeli men's basketball players

Category:Jewish basketball players