Basketball player Elijah Bryant shares his game-day meals while playing EuroLeague in Israel during lockdown. He starts with bone broth and eggs in ghee, eats chicken and rice before games, and avoids large meals within four hours of playing. Post-game, he recovers with a protein bar and ribeye steak his wife made.
Here he goes again, Elijah Bryant, dazzling dribble, dancing. All right, so, mm-hmm.
I don't know if you can hear me, but— Whoa, that could have been really bad. Look what happened to the table. It's like sun tan. Today's game day, and I'm gonna show you guys what I eat day of the game. First, we had bone broth, 2 eggs with some ghee. The ghee was my lubricant oil stuff I use for the eggs so they don't stick. All right, so this is the mask we have to wear for EuroLeague. So I'm heading to shoot around and yeah. So the reason All this, all I'm wearing this is because it takes me 5 minutes to get to work instead of 20 minutes in traffic. Israel is in a current state of lockdown. To Israel now where Prime Minister Netanyahu has just announced a new COVID-19 lockdown. 3 weeks of lockdown. You can't go 500 meters from your house.
4,000 new cases a day for a country with just under 9 million people.
And being a basketball player, I can't even go outside of my house. I can only go to the gym and back. I'm not even allowed to go to the grocery store or anywhere else.
So thankfully, I love basketball.
So Israel's in a pandemic right now and we're supposed to be on lockdown for 3 weeks, but does this look like lockdown to you guys? This doesn't look like lockdown to me. Well, that's how I get to work during the pandemic, or not the pandemic. Pandemic being Corona. There's so many cases in Israel, so make sure you're wearing your mask. Stay safe out there. Went to shootaround. We had pregame meal after, and I ate the chicken and rice, and I came home probably about an hour later, and I'm about to get into some more chicken and rice. So I like to make sure that I'm not eating anything big protein-wise at least 4 hours before before the game. Then I'll, then I'll, then I'll wake up and I'll have some sort of snack, maybe with a matcha depending on how I slept. I'll head to the game. Yep, just added a plum so I can get all that food out of there. For my nap, take like a 40 to 45 minute nap, and then I drink my matcha. Then I take my toasted almond butter and honey. I eat this right before about to head up to try to give me a little bit of boost of energy. I don't really like taking those gels and all that stuff, so I like to eat food instead of taking that type of stuff.
Well, in comes Ben Lammers, first-year man. It's the baseline jump shot attempt from Lammers. Wilberkin now in the open floor. Wilberkin's in the cylinder and he scores as he goes hard to the rack. And Sandy Cohen with an extra step in his ladder in the first half. Another assist from Jones to Blazer. And then Sigma gets caught. Jones' shot no good. Now Siva comes out of the pack. Nice strip by Bryant. Great defense by Elijah Bryant. But the turnovers now starting to mount for Alba. They're 12. Good transition defense here. And 15 points, Alba. Yeah, good movement of the basketball by Maccabi. And Alba know that seconds are running out on them. And so the good news is that EuroLeague is back.
It is really far from ideal, especially, um, just because us, Maccabi, we finished in the end of July, so we didn't have the training camp and the preseason games, the preparation that a lot of these other EuroLeague teams had. So I mean, this was an unbelievably gutsy win by us, you know. This is really our, what, our third game of the season.
How was the Ronies? Jeff Ronies? Felt violated, you know? Felt violated? Better than first time. First time it felt like it, I don't know. Let's get the Ronies test, Doc. How are you? That's it. Thank you. All right, so I just got back from the game. We won, as you saw. I ate a protein bar after the game, and wifey has been marinating this steak for 2 days now. It's the— what's it having it? It's like the Hawaiian ribeye from Houston's that we marinated. Mashed potatoes. So I've been waiting for that.
