Maccabi Tel Aviv Coach Refuses to Leave
October 18, 2009 by Stephen Kersey
Filed under Basketball
The New York Knicks finally prevailed over the Maccabi Tel Aviv Euroleague team on Sunday by 106-91 margin. But it wasn’t before a eight-minute delay in the third quarter when the visiting coach, Pini Gershon refused to leave after being ejected.
If it wasn’t odd enough that the coach continued to linger near the bench, at one point a rabbi tried to intervene, asking the officials to allow Gershon to stay.
“I explained that this is not a regular game and the kids are watching and [it's] important that there will be peace and forgive him,” Rabbi Yitchak Dovid Grossman said of …read more
