Danny Avdiya, an Israeli basketball player who plays for the Portland Trail Blazers team in the NBA, the best basketball league in the world, announced this evening (Thursday), in a story he posted on his Instagram account, that he will be absent from his team's first preseason game, due to Yom Kippur.
The first preseason game for the 2024/25 season will take place on Friday evening, against the Los Angeles Clippers, after Yom Kippur.
Avdiya updated his followers on Instagram: "Tomorrow, on Yom Kippur Eve, the first training game of the upcoming season will take place. When the management informed me of this, it was clear to me from the first moment that I would inform them that I would not take part in the game.
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""I feel that this time the best and most appropriate start to this season will be in honoring Jewish tradition and in unity with my brothers and sisters in Israel and around the world.".
""Basketball has been an integral part of my life since I can remember and has always been my number one priority, but it was precisely after this year that we experienced that I felt that there was something more important than basketball. The people of Israel are alive. A good signature to the entire House of Israel.".
The one who was quick to praise his decision was media personality Ofira Assayag, who wrote to the basketball player on Instagram: "What a champion!!!".
