For years, Ama're Stoudemire has been a man in the middle, but in the last several off-seasons, he has been a man in the middle east. In 2010, he traveled to Israel for a week to research his Hebrew heritage. This year, he and a band of businessmen have submitted a bid to buy the basketball team Hapoel Jerusalem and he has helped coach the Canadian team at the Maccabiah Games, an event for Jewish athletes held every four years, which we're now nicknaming the "Oy-lympics".
Because of the mensch's many mitzvahs, Israel's President, Shimon Peres, said "shalom" to Stoudemire last week and personally asked him to play for the national team. Stoudemire last suited up for the stars and stripes in 2007 and was a member of the shanda squad at the 2004 Olympics, for whom bronze might as well have been bupkis.
Should Stoudemire be swayed by the schmoozing, he'd light up the scoreboard like it's a menorah (and likely get burned on defense like a candle). Even if he says "feh" to the feeler, Stoudemire will still have best "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" essay in The Association.
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