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Sandy Cohen (basketball)

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american-israeli professional basketball player for maccabi tel aviv of the israeli premier league and the euro”. Today it says “american-israeli professional basketball player for maccabi haifa of the liga leumit”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “American basketball player”. It now reads “American-Israeli basketball player”.
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Sandy Cohen III ( Hebrew : סנדי כהן ; born September 22, 1995) is an American-Israeli professional basketball player for Hapoel Afula B.C. of the Israeli Basketball Premier League . A standout at Seymour Community High School who led the team to two Bay Conference championships, Cohen played college basketball for Marquette University and later the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay . Cohen went undrafted in the 2019 NBA draft , and signed a four-year contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv in August 2019.

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american-israeli professional basketball player for maccabi tel aviv of the israeli premier league and the euro”. Today it says “american-israeli professional basketball player for maccabi haifa of the liga leumit”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “American basketball player”. It now reads “American-Israeli basketball player”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

american-israeli professional basketball player for maccabi tel aviv of the israeli premier league and the euro

Now

american-israeli professional basketball player for maccabi haifa of the liga leumit

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