Jew Guys Can Jump!!!

It seems I have had a few more Jewish related posts the past few days., I am not sure why. I had a conversation last week with a friend of mine where we discussed why some people are anti Jewish. Growing up I never got it because Jesus was Jewish and so was his mom.How could you be anti Jewish? Maybe that is what got me thinking about it.

Still it has got to thinking about anti Jewish feeling.

How does this relate to basketball? Well a little history via the Atlantic I did not know about. Also get a load of that quote I put in BOLD GEEZ!!!!


The Secret Relationship Between Blacks And Jews
Heh, the conversation about that fake all-white basketball league (and subesequent questions over whether Jews would get to play) got me thinking about the bygone era when Jews ran this thing:

Sure the dude that invented basketball was Canadian, but there was a time when Jews dominated basketball the way they now dominate media and finance. And world governments. OK, I'm kidding about world Jew domination, but I'm not kidding about basketball. In fact, the first basket scored in the NBA was on November 1, 1946 by Ossie Schectman of the New York Knickerbockers against the Toronto Huskies. Schectman and his teammates Sonny Hertzberg, Stan Stutz, Hank Rosenstein, Ralph Kaplowitz, Jake Weber, and Leo "Ace" Gottlieb went on to win the opening game 68 - 66.

This, of course, is a favorite of mine:
New York Daily News sports editor Paul Gallico wrote in the mid 1930s that basketball "appeals to the Hebrew with his Oriental background [because] the game places a premium on an alert, scheming mind and flashy trickiness, artful dodging and general smartalecness." We see how qualities such as cunning and wiliness were posited as the keys to Jewish basketball success and how these kinds of statements were indicative of early 20th century America.Heh "scheming mind."

Here's a trailer from the film, The First Basket.

Vid at the link

Anyway what happen to the great Jewish Baskeball players?