Basketball star Amar’e Stoudemire, a star forward for the Israeli team Hapoel Jerusalem, apologized for comments which were taken to be anti-gay. “I want to apologize for my offensive comments against the LGBT community. These remarks were taken from a larger interview where a reporter was asking me hypothetical questions, and all my answers had…
Just days after winning Israel’s Martin Luther King Jr. Award for his philanthropic work, Amar’e Stoudemire found himself under fire for saying he would be uncomfortable playing basketball alongside an openly gay teammate. The comments were delivered in an interview with the Israeli website Walla Sport. Stoudemire was asked how comfortable he would feel with…
(JTA) — Basketball star Amar’e Stoudemire made an unlikely move in August, when he retired from the NBA and signed with an Israeli team. But the 34-year old former New York Knicks center raves about his “adopted homeland” in a recent interview with Sports Illustrated. “I’ve never felt more at home,” Stoudemire told the reporter over…
My best time at the movies this year was seeing “On the Map,” an uplifting documentary directed and written by Dani Menkin about how the hard work of the players of its Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team put Israel on the world map in 1977 by winning the EuroCup. Menkin deftly interweaves archival footage with…
— Jerry Reinsdorf, who as owner of the Chicago Bulls has won six NBA championships, was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Reinsdorf was officially enshrined in the Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Thursday, alongside players including Allen Iverson, Yao Ming, Sheryl Swoopes and Shaquille O’Neal, as well as others. Led…
Former Knicks all-star Amar’e Stoudemire made it official yesterday: On the heels of his departure from the New York team, he will end his professional basketball career with Hapoel Jerusalem The 33-year-old Stoudemeire, who signed a two year contract with the 2015 champions and 2016 runners up of the Israeli basketball Super League, announced his…
JERUALEM — An Israeli lawmaker reportedly has written a letter to the owner of the 2016 NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers asking him to give a championship ring to David Blatt, the team’s former coach. Nachman Shai, of the Zionist Union Party, on Tuesday sent the letter to Cavs owner Dan Gilbert, the Jerusalem Post reported….
The Golden State Warriors are having one of the greatest seasons in the history of American sports. They have revolutionized the game of basketball, they have a near-perfect roster which boasts the best shooter in N.B.A. history (Steph Curry), and they have broken the single-season wins record (72) set by Michael Jordan’s ’1995-’96 Chicago Bulls….
דאָ וועט איר הערן דעם אַרטיקל, „וואָס אַקטיוויסטן פֿאַר שפּראַכן אין אַ סכּנה קענען זיך אָפּלערנען איינער פֿונעם אַנדערן.“
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