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Message: [QUOTE="DogMania, post: 5073131, member: 21"] He accepted a lucrative professional contract by the very successful Israeli profession basketball team Maccabi Tel Aviv instead of returning to UConn. If my memory serves me he had a tearful announcement stating that he would not be returning to UConn. He wanted to return but felt a lot of pressure to play for Israel's iconic team which was experiencing a great deal of international success at that time. I, along with many Husky fans, were devistated wishing it wasn't true. We had just come off of the 1990 "Dream Season" where they fell one overtime loss against Dook from our first Final Four, with hopes of finally achieving that the next year. With Nadav not returning, I knew that had slipped away, and it took 9 years and many E-8 and S-16 heartbreaks to finally breakthrough with not only our first F-4 but the first of our 6 MB NCs. I always felt that if Nadav had returned we probably would have kept the momentum going and made our first F-4 sooner than later, but that Nadav would also have been drafted by some NBA team and made it to the League. He did have a very successful pro career in Israel and Europe, where Maccabi competed well in European international competition. [/QUOTE]