Why does stoudemire

In Streetwise Hebrew for the Times of Israel Community, each month we learn several colloquial Hebrew phrases around a common theme. These are bite-size audio Hebrew classes that we think you'll really enjoy. This month, we're learning phrases on the topic of strength and power. This is what he wants and he can handle it. We're going to do it together. After months of dancing around and toward one another, the Knicks and Anthony were finally united. The collateral damage was deemed a necessary sacrifice.

Stoudemire needed a star partner, that second scorer to help him carry the Knicks toward a championship. Anthony and Stoudemire's honeymoon was short-lived, though. New York played.

More troubling than the Knicks' mediocre record was Stoudemire's play next to Anthony. His numbers dipped significantly during those final 28 games. Playing next to Anthony, a statistical decline of some sort, especially on offense, was to be expected.

Next to him, Stoudemire was no longer the first option, which meant fewer touches and, therefore, fewer scoring opportunities. Then again, the Knicks traded away a stable's worth of firepower for Anthony. There should have been more than enough individual possessions to go around.

Come playoff time, none of that mattered. The Knicks had their two stars and a first-round date with the third-seeded Boston Celtics. It was time to see how far their brand-new duo could lead them. It has to be better. I knew last night I wasn't percent. I wasn't 50 percent last night. I was pretty much in pain the whole game, from start to finish. I just don't want to further injure the injury. We understand how bright the future is here with the organization. We want to continue that success out here in the next few years.

So we don't want to damage anything by overdoing it. Having already lost Chauncey Billups and Game 1 against the Celtics along with him, the Knicks needed their two stars to bear an even heavier burden.

What they got was another dropped bomb. Stoudemire suffered back spasms during Game 2 warm-ups. Though he attempted to play through them, he wound up sitting the entire second half, watching as Anthony nearly shot the Knicks to victory. Following the loss, Stoudemire told reporters he wasn't able to move leading into the first quarter, according to NESN's Evans Clinchy :.

I could hardly move. I was trying to play through it. I went to the training staff and had it worked on before the game. Right before the national anthem, I went to get a little more work done. I tried to push through it and play on it, but once I felt that sharp pain, I just couldn't take it. Stoudemire suited up and played 33 minutes in Game 3, going 2-of-8 from the floor for seven points. Boston clobbered New York to set up a series-clinching Game 4. Once again, Stoudemire took the floor in hopes of helping the Knicks stave off elimination.

On this night, he logged 44 minutes and finished with 19 points on 5-of shooting. The Knicks lost the game and the series. We all have done thing out of anger that we regret.

That makes us human. Kabbalat Shabbat. Shapers of Israel. Maariv Online. Maariv News. Tools and services. JPost Premium. Ulpan Online. JPost Newsletter. JPost News Ticker. Our Magazines. Learn Hebrew. Around a year or two later, he decided to devote more of himself to Judaism.

He began studying for his conversion, though he prefers the term reconnection. I asked why. So at that point we then converted from what we were in Egypt, to following God. I was curious about what someone like him—a very famous person with access to whatever he wants and the world seemingly at his fingertips—viewed as the appeal.

Stoudemire said he doesn't see it that way. He created all these beautiful things for us and we'll just go on and eat the food without even thinking about it?

Our conversation was coming to a close. He paused for a moment. How he was a reluctant leader, how he never envisioned himself being the type of person capable of leading the Jews out of slavery, how God had to call his name twice at the burning bush.

Also, my three-and-half-year-old daughter, who, despite it being an hour past her bedtime, had pleaded to stay up for the Seder, which she had learned about in school.

My daughter drank grape juice and hopped from family member to family member. She fiddled with her toy matzah and placed it onto the Seder plate she had made. She asked for more grape juice.