SubscribeOmri Casspi: Day One (and beyond)
Omri Casspi’s first “day at school”
Hands across the hardwood?
A new era of Mideast relations?
Hoops, hoops, hurray
Israeli basketball season gets under way. Omri Casspi gets under way soon, too.
Jew on Jew in the NBA
Eight more and they’ll have a minyan.
Bits and pieces
Catching up with bits and pieces of Jewish sports news.
Now warming up, Omri Casspi
Basketball season is just around the corner (No kidding; they already have Halloween candy displays at my local supermarket), so it doesn’t seem all that odd that a profile of the only Israeli player to be chosen in the first round of the draft should be featured in The New York Times.
Casspi, who was selected [...]
Clearing the air
A couple of alert hoops fans wrote in to inform us of that Omri Casspi was not the first Israeli ever selected in the NBA draft, just the first to be selected in the first round.
According to Bob Wechsler, author of Day By Day in Jewish Sports History, noted:
Doron Sheffer was a second-round pick but [...]
Mori on Omri
Whether he signs of not, you can expect the jewish press — the Korner included — to be all over the selection of Omri Casspi as the first Israeli ever chosen in the NBA draft. This piece from the Jewish Week makes an interesting observation:
Casspi’s selection is symbolic in broader terms. The King’s co-owners, Joe [...]
Uh-oh…
From SI.com, analyzing the Kings’ selection of Omri Casspi:
The Israeli small forward has already said he’s willing to spend another season playing in his native country. The Kings, looking to save money, will probably take him up on it.
Why bother [...]
Omri Casspi, NBA draftee!!
In the word of that eminent sports philosopher Marv Alpert, “Yesssssssssssss!”
Casspi was chosen by the Sacremento Kings as the 23rd overall pick in the first round last night to become the first Israeli-born player in the NBA. Unfortunately, this news got short shrift because the Kings also had the #4 pick and chose a high-profile [...]
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