When you think about the history of basketball, there are a great number of Jewish players, executives and broadcasters that have been a part of the sport like Red Auerbach, Larry Brown, Red Holzman, Ernie Grunfeld, Sue Bird, Dolph Schayes, Nat Holman, Nancy Lieberman, Marty Glickman and Jordan Farmar.
And that’s just to name a few.
So given the connection between the sport of basketball and Jewish athletes, it was appropriate that the Long Island Nets, the G-League affiliate of the Brooklyn Nets, celebrated the third night of Hanukkah Thursday evening with Jewish Heritage Night at the Nassau Coliseum.