{"id":1486031,"date":"2022-05-20T14:30:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1486031"},"modified":"2022-05-20T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T18:30:15","slug":"6-time-nba-all-star-explains-leaving-the-league-honoring-the-jewish-sabbath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/6-time-nba-all-star-explains-leaving-the-league-honoring-the-jewish-sabbath\/","title":{"rendered":"6-Time NBA All-Star Explains Leaving The League: Honoring The Jewish Sabbath"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F6-time-nba-all-star-explains-leaving-the-league-honoring-the-jewish-sabbath%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1486031&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-97672268.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former six-time NBA All Star and Rookie of the Year Amar\u2019e Stoudemire, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/amare-stoudemire-completes-his-conversion-to-judaism\/amp\/\">converted to Judaism<\/a> in 2020, dismissed the claims in the media for him stepping down from serving as an assistant coach, explaining that the real reason was so he could honor the Jewish Sabbath.<\/p>\n<p>Some in the media had conjectured Stoudemire had a beef with Nets star Kyrie Irving after Stoudemire had said to <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/amare-stoudemire-quits-nets-assistant-job-criticizes-kyrie-irvings-absences-004138426.html\">ESPN<\/a> of Irving\u2019s intermittent absences, \u201cYeah, I think it hurt us. It definitely hurt us because we didn\u2019t have consistency enough with Kyrie to build chemistry with the group, with the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because of his refusal to get the COVID-19 vaccine, Irving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/news\/kyrie-irving-says-he-thought-nets-might-trade-or-release-him-during-absence-over-covid-vaccine\/\">wasn\u2019t allowed to play<\/a> in home games until the end of the regular season. He played a total of 33 regular-season and playoff games all season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s playing only away games depending which city it is \u2026 can\u2019t play in New York \u2026 therefore we had different lineups, different matchups depending on the game schedule,\u201d Stoudemire told ESPN. \u201cSo it made it difficult for us coaches to figure out who\u2019s going to play in spite of Kyrie. So it was difficult for us to manage that so yeah, it was part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his message clarifying why he left the team, Stoudemire stated, \u201cI want to clarify something. I\u2019m seeing articles right now popping saying \u2018Amar\u2019e quits the Nets and criticizes Kyrie on his way out.\u2019 That\u2019s not the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke with Steve Nash before I went on ESPN,\u201d he said. \u201cWe had an easy mutual conversation. I spoke about me not being able to grow in the coaching space because I don\u2019t work on Shabbat and so not working on Friday night and Saturdays is difficult for anyone to grow in the coaching space because coaching\u2019s such a grind and it requires you to be there full time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so for me, I wasn\u2019t able to grow in that space so I did not want to continue coaching,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd on the flip side, the Nets organization want people who can be there full time and I totally understand that. So therefore it was a mutual understanding between them and I. Beautiful organization. \u2026 Amazing experience with the organization there.\u00a0 There\u2019s no hard feelings no way, nohow. There\u2019s no quitting nowhere on my side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, criticizing Kyrie, why would I criticize someone who\u2019s as similar as I am? I also fast during the NBA season for Yom Kippur,\u201d Stoudemire pointed out. \u201cI\u2019m also a guy who has a religious intake. I\u2019m also a guy who\u2019s an activist who speaks about African-American communities, and so forth. So why would I criticize someone who\u2019s very similar to [who] I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe media will try to turn your words against your fellow friend or organization to provide more viewers or more clicks to their article. I\u2019m not gonna allow that to happen. You\u2019re not going to turn me against Kyrie. You\u2019re not going to turn me against the Nets. You\u2019re not gonna turn me against anyone, so you can forget about it. Peace,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Amareisreal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Amareisreal<\/a> quits working as an assistant coach for the Brooklyn Nets \u201cbecause it\u2019s difficult to be a coach and keep Shabbos\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He also addresses the medias desire to create fake controversy between him &#038; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KyrieIrving?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KyrieIrving<\/a> for clickbait purposes.<\/p>\n<p>A true INSPIRATION. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fA8NxEm9Ow\">pic.twitter.com\/fA8NxEm9Ow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Living Lchaim (@LivingLchaim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LivingLchaim\/status\/1526950045731504132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former six-time NBA All Star and Rookie of the Year Amar\u2019e Stoudemire, who converted to Judaism in 2020, dismissed the claims in the media for him stepping down from serving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1486044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1486044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}