Tag: NBA
Deni Avdija out for rest of season with ankle injury
On Wednesday night, 2,133 lucky Washington Wizards fans saw their hometown team in person at the Capitol One Arena for the first time this season and for the first time in 407 days. They...
NBA player caught using anti-Jewish slur on video-game platform
Miami Heat NBA basketball player Meyers Leonard was caught this week using an anti-Semitic slur on Twitch, a live-streaming video-game platform.
“Don’t f***ing snipe me, you f***ing kike bitch,” Leonard, 29, said while playing “Call...
On and off the court, Israel’s NBA star is making the grade
As Deni Avdija and the Washington Wizards mark the halfway point of the season and celebrate his selection to the 2020-21 NBA Rising Stars World Team roster, 21-year-old Wizards super-fan Matan Karudo could not be happier....
Israeli rookie Deni Avdija selected to NBA Rising Stars World Team squad
Washington Wizards Israeli rookie forward Deni Avdija has been selected to the 2020-21 NBA Rising Stars World Team roster, the National Basketball Association announced on Wednesday. He will be joined by his teammate Rui Hachimura of...
Ice Cube cries foul after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s slam dunk on anti-Semitism
Ice Cube has fired back at NBA icon Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for calling out the rapper for his anti-Semitic rhetoric.
In a column published on Tuesday by The Hollywood Reporter, Abdul-Jabbar wrote that the anti-Semitic posts made by Ice Cube and...
Meet the Jewish African American Basketball Superstar
Let's be honest, when discussing a Jewish athlete we consider them a star at any point if they were able to make it to a professional League. However, the athlete we are going to...
Israelis pay tribute to Kobe Bryant after NBA legend dies in helicopter crash
Following the news that famed NBA player Kobe Bryant died on Sunday in a helicopter crash in California, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted that the 41-year-old was “one of the greatest basketball players in history,”...
Brooklyn Nets warm up in shirts featuring ADL logo ‘No Place for Hate’
Prior to playing the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., the home team Brooklyn Nets warmed up in shirts that read “No Place for Hate,” featuring the Anti-Defamation League’s...
Toronto Raptors object to BDS claiming victory behind canceled Israel trip
Despite activists from the anti-Israel BDS movement claiming victory over the Toronto Raptors canceling their planned visit to Israel this summer after winning the NBA championship this year, the team’s co-owner Larry Tanenbaum said...
Former NBA player Mike Sweetney: Life on the rebound
Mike Sweetney had it all.
Named the best high school basketball player in the Washington, D.C., area in 2000, he then joined the list of star centers for Georgetown University. At Georgetown, he averaged 18.2...