Last week Amar’e Stoudemire announced that he was retiring and he signed a one-day contract with New York so he could retire as a Knick. Though he retired from the NBA, he’s not completely done with basketball. Today he held a press conference and announced that he’s playing next season in Israel.
According to ESPN, Stoudemire will join Hapoel Jerusalem as an active player on a 2-year deal. As part of the agreement, Stoudemire will sell his shares in the team to president and majority owner Dr. Ori Allon
Stoudemire is scheduled to travel to Israel next week as part of an NBA Cares initiative organized by the first Israeli to ever play in the NBA — Sacramento’s Omri Casspi — and has taken a great interest in the country over the past few years since revealing that he has Jewish roots on his mother’s side.
