Maccabi Tel Aviv have denied the rumor that the club is trying to sign ex-NBA guard Ron Mercer, according to crobasket.com, but Croatian coach Neven Spahija is not hiding the fact that he'd like to get Nets guard Zoran Planinic onto the team.  However, if Planinic returns to Europe, Maccabi will have competition for his services.

"Currently because of the situation it is hard to bring players to Maccabi. But after all this ends I would like to see Zoran Planinic in my club. He is currently a player of the NJ Nets and we must negotiate to bring him.", stated Spahija for the Israeli Haaretz.

Kind of a public secret is a offer of Tau Ceramica to Planinic which is similar or little more bigger that Maccabi?s. But the question is would he get enough minutes in Tau.