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The David Blatt Era in Cleveland Has Officially Begun
The David Blatt era in Cleveland is officially underway. Last night, the star-studded Cleveland Cavaliers defeated coach David Blatt’s visiting former team, Maccabi Tel Aviv, 107-80 in front of a...
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David Blatt, LeBron James Face Upstart Boston in First Round of NBA Playoffs
The NBA playoffs are ready to roll. Last night’s final slate of regular season games determined the playoff pairings and sealed the fate for a number of not-quite-good-enough teams. The Oklahoma City...
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With Their Backs to the Wall, the Celtics Need Inspiration From Red Auerbach
After losing the first two games of its opening round playoff series with the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Boston Celtics are in dire need of a win tonight in Beantown. And though the Celts are giving the...
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David Blatt's Cavs Play Dirty, Defeat Celtics To Move On In NBA Playoffs
Last May, David Blatt led Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv, a Israeli professional basketball team, to an overtime victory over Real Madrid to take the Euroleague Championship. Shortly thereafter, Blatt was...
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Does the Bible Predict a Victory for the Cleveland Cavaliers?
The NBA Finals are well under way, and to the list of those predicting it will end with the triumph of the Cleveland Cavaliers you can now add the Holy Bible: as eagle-eyed observers in Israel—where...
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Youngest NBA Scoring King, a Jew, Unseated
If you notice an uncharacteristic lack of sports-related posts for the rest of this week and all of next, it is because I will be on vacation, and The Scroll will be in the hands of people who spend...
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Which Team Will Farmar Sign With?
Tonight at 9 E.S.T., basketball player corporate brand LeBron James will announce which NBA team he will sign with. It’s basically among the Cleveland Cavaliers (his current team), the Miami Heat (as...
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Farmar Heads to Jersey
Jordan Farmar—currently the only Jewish NBA player who is not the Sacramento Kings’ Israeli forward Omri Casspi—signed a three-year, $12 million contract with the New Jersey Nets. This is exciting for...
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Amar’e Stoudemire’s Excellent Adventure
Amar’e Stoudemire, the sporting world’s most famous maybe-Jew, departed Israel yesterday after a week-long trip. The New York Knicks power forward’s Twitter feed lets us piece together his itinerary:...
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LeBron Consults Shady Kabbalist Rabbi
Capping off a summer of brilliant PR moves, LeBron James has hired Rabbi Yishayahu Yosef Pinto, a Hebrew-only-speaking, 37-year-old rabbi-to-the-minor-stars who also may be a sketchy businessman who...
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Kobe Cited as Potential Future Jew
Former Tablet Magazine intern (and Dallas native) Jordan Hirsch sends news that, in the wake of the Amar’e Stoudemire phenomenon, a bookmaking Website has fixed odds to the likelihoods of 10 NBA stars’...
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Where the Rabbi Gets His Money
Josh Nathan-Kazis at the Forward has done some digging into the finances of revered Rabbi Yoshiyayu Yosef Pinto, and, turns out, the heir to a prominent line of Moroccan rabbis who was weirdly...
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Top Pinto Aide Connected to Bootlegged Porn
New Rabbi Pinto news! You may remember that Rabbi Yishayahu Yosef Pinto, the Hebrew-speaking scion of a prominent Moroccan rabbinical family, is a spiritual adviser to the stars (including LeBron...
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Dolph Schayes Sez: Go Mavs!
Last night, Tablet Magazine’s team, the Dallas Mavericks, lost the first game of the NBA Finals to the hosting Miami Heat, 84-92. Most worrying was that the Heat were able to play their game, relying...
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The Dallas Mavericks Are NBA Champs
Last night, after the Dallas Mavericks won their first ever NBA championship—defeating the favored Miami Heat in a six-game series, including two wins in Miami (the Heat’s arena isn’t in South...
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A Rabbi, an Imam, and a Weiner Walk in a Bar
Just when the Anthony Weiner story is dying down (or should be), two irresistible items! First, a “goodwill ambassador” for a group of West Bank settlers wrote a column in the “Communities” section of...
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Schayes, Nowitzki Team Up to Win Fantasy Title
Dolph Schayes, the greatest Jewish basketball player who ever lived, was the seventh man on the team that won Sports Illustrated’s all-time fantasy league. To back up: Ten SI writers drafted 12 players...
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Omri Casspi Is a Cleveland Cavalier
The first and only Israeli to play in the NBA was traded by the Sacramento Kings, his team for his first two seasons, to Cleveland along with a conditional first-round pick in exchange for J.J....
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Oh, Amar’e. ‘You Do Stupid Things Sometimes.’
It’s time for the NBA Playoffs, which means it’s time to check in with our old friend, Dolph Schayes, a real estate developer in upstate New York who also happens to be the greatest Jewish basketball...
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Two All Stars, a Draft Pick, and Red Auerbach
• There will be at least two Jews selected for baseball’s All-Star teams. The Milwaukee Brewers’ Ryan Braun is one, of course. The other is the Texas Rangers’ Ian Kinsler, currently leading all...
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How LeBron James and the Miami Heat Brought Me and My Grandfather Together
My grandfather is 94 years old. He lives in the aptly named Century Village retirement community in South Florida—and he is a huge Miami Heat fan. It all started around six years ago. Before that, my...
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Congressman Michael Grimm Charged With Fraud
You might remember Republican Congressman Michael Grimm, from Staten Island, as one of the first-term lawmakers who joined in a midnight swim in the Sea of Galilee during an official tour of Israel in...
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David Blatt to Coach LeBron James in Cleveland
“Mr. @KingJames meet Coach Blatt,” tweeted the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team earlier today, referencing NBA star Lebron James’ decision to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers after four seasons with...
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David Blatt Flashes Hebrew Skills in Israeli NBA Commercial
Cleveland Cavaliers head coach David Blatt was working in the Midwest last night, drawing up x’s and o’s tactical enough for a home win over the New York Knicks, probably yelling something along the...
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Identity Politics on the Court
Last Friday, the Cleveland Cavaliers fired head coach and Israeli basketball legend David Blatt. During the Cavs’ first post-Blatt home game, two women in the stands triumphantly unfurled a Palestinian...
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Hey, LeBron, the Cup of Your Sister!
When the Cleveland Cavaliers fired David Blatt as their head coach, Israelis took to the Internet to express their outrage. The former coach of perennial champion Maccabi Tel Aviv, and the national...
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LeBron Cries After Willing Cavs to NBA Title. Somewhere, David Blatt Is...
If you’re into watching men beat the snot out of one another, then holy smokes was Sunday night a good night for you. This collective four-hour pop culture orgasm was brought to you by the good folks...
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The Cleveland Cavaliers, Maimonides, and Redemption
Finals MVP LeBron James celebrates with fans in Cleveland, Ohio, June 22, 2016. (Facebook) On Wednesday, LeBron James, the best basketball player on the planet, soaked in the Cleveland sun—and the...
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David Blatt Gets Ring From Team That Became Champions Because They Fired Him
I get that breakups can be messy, and that we all, deep down inside, hope we’re able to make them mostly clean and cordial again, but this is one make-up I just don’t understand. Basketball reporter...
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