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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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Article 24
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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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Article 16
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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Article 15
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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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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Article 13
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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Classic Jewish Basketball Player Dolph Schayes Discusses Amar'e Stoudemire...
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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Article 11
• 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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For My Jewish Grandfather, the Miami Heat Is ‘Like a Family’
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 Facing Fraud Charges
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 Wins Big With LeBron's Return to Cleveland Cavaliers
“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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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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