Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. - Through The Decades - 2010, On

2010, On

2 Israeli Championship, 2 Israeli Cup, 1 League Cup, 1 Adriatic Championship.

For the 2010–11 season, management brought back head coach David Blatt, and adding new premier players. Maccabi reeled off nine consecutive wins to finish the regular season. Highlights included David Blu's game-winning triple against Khimki, Sofoklis Schortsanitis's dominance inside, and the defense of steals leaders Chuck Eidson and Doron Perkins. The momentum ended with a road loss at Regal FC Barcelona at the start of the Top 16, but Maccabi surged again with three straight wins to reach the playoffs. Barca handed Maccabi another loss, this time in Tel Aviv – the only home defeat of the season – and ended Blatt's hopes for home-court advantage in the next stage against Laboral.

Maccabi prevailed in the series, as the injured Perkins’ replacement in the starting lineup, Guy Pnini, set a game-career-high in scoring along the way and moved on to the Final Four. Pargo finished with the best performance index ranking, and the second-most points per game, among all playoffs participants. He also ranked among the top five players in three-pointers made, assists, and steals. Backup forward Richard Hendrix was named MVP of the first round of the Euroleague Playoffs, and finished as the overall playoff leader in rebounds and blocks. Maccabi Tel Aviv beat Real Madrid in the semi-final 82–63, advancing to the final game. On May 8, 2011, Maccabi lost the final game, 70–78 to Panathinaikos Athens.

In order to add income ($3 million dollars per year) and quality games to its schedule, Maccabi announced that it would join the Adriatic League for the 2011–12 season for the second time since the 2002–03 season, when it reached the final game. This was supposed to bridge the gap between the highest basketball level Maccabi engages in, the Euroleague, and the low-level Israeli league. The Adriatic League is generally regarded as the third-highest European basketball competition, behind the Euroleague and the Spanish ACB.

In June 2011, guard Jon Scheyer signed a two-year contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv, worth a reported $450,000. While the team is limited to no more than four players who are both non-Israeli and non-Jewish, because Scheyer is Jewish and was thus entitled to Israeli citizenship, a right he availed himself of by taking becoming an Israeli citizen in September 2011, he does not count towards that limit. Scheyer led his high school team to an Illinois state basketball championship as a high school All-American while he was named Illinois Mr. Basketball, and the 2009–10 Duke Blue Devils to the 2010 NCAA Basketball Championship as the team's captain and point guard and a college All-American. He was a prolific high school scorer, and later an Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) leader in numerous statistical categories, ranging from free throw percentage and three point shots/game to assists/turnover ratio.

On August 3, 2011, NBA point guard Jordan Farmar of the New Jersey Nets signed a one-year contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv, in the wake of the 2011 NBA lockout. He played for the team during the lockout. Farmar said that he was very excited to be coming to Tel Aviv, because his step-father is from the city, he spent time there as a child, and it is a beautiful beach city.

Because Farmar is Jewish, he is eligible to obtain Israeli citizenship, which he indicated he would apply for. If he becomes an Israeli citizen, he will be considered an Israeli player, and thereby avoid being counted against the Israeli league's limit of four non-Israeli players per team. If he is granted Israeli citizenship, Farmar will also be eligible to play for the Israel national basketball team in the Olympics and other international competitions.

Israeli NBA forward Omri Casspi signed with Maccabi Tel Aviv in November. It was reported on November 14, 2011, that according to Creative Artists Agency which represents Casspi, he would join the team in several weeks. However, the end of the NBA lockout and the December 25, 2011, start date for the 2011-12 season brought Casspi and Farmar back from Tel Aviv to join their NBA teams (Cleveland and Brooklyn, respectively).