Louis “Red” Klotz, the driving force behind the team that served as the foil for the Harlem Globetrotters, has died. Klotz, who with his Globetrotters counterpart, Abe Saperstein, formed a Jewish-run traveling basketball show that has traveled around the world for more than six decades, died Saturday at his home in Margate, N.J. He was…
Rookie Cleveland Cavaliers Coach David Blatt won a European title with Maccabi Tel Aviv. Now he gets to coach Lebron James. Getty Images One year ago, David Blatt was working with Maccabi Tel Aviv’s management on signing new players for the upcoming season. A year later, Blatt is coaching the best basketball player on the…
(Reuters) — Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling lashed out at his estranged wife following her court testimony in a trial over the $2 billion sale of the NBA team. Sterling, 80, who is fighting to scuttle the deal his wife Shelly Sterling negotiated with former Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, lashed out…
Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Donald Sterling on Tuesday sparred with his estranged wife’s attorney at a trial over the $2 billion sale of the NBA franchise, interrupting and shouting during testimony and saying that he wants to hold onto the team for financial reasons. The 80-year-old real estate billionaire, who has been deemed by physicians…
Attorneys for Donald Sterling told a probate court judge on Monday that the Los Angeles Clippers co-owner had been duped into medical examinations that determined he lacked the mental capacity to have a say in the $2 billion sale of his team. Sterling’s attorneys, speaking during a pre-trial hearing in the legal battle for control…
(JTA) — In 1981, David Blatt moved to Israel in pursuit of a path of lifelong worship – to play professional basketball. Now, more than 30 years later, Blatt is leaving Israel to make a different, and totally unprecedented, form of aliyah – to leave the ranks of Israeli basketball to coach in the NBA….
David Blatt, who recently resigned from his job as coach of the championship Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team, is set to meet with the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. Blatt will interview Wednesday with the Cleveland Cavaliers for their vacant head coaching position, Yahoo Sports first reported Sunday citing what it called “league sources.” Blatt, 55, stepped…
David Blatt, who guided Maccabi Tel Aviv to the Euroleague basketball championship, stepped down as the Israeli team’s coach to pursue opportunities in the NBA. Blatt made the announcement Thursday at a news conference in Tel Aviv. The Cleveland Cavaliers reportedly have contacted Blatt for their vacant head coaching post. New York, Minnesota and Golden…
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