Former six-time NBA All Star and Rookie of the Year Amar’e Stoudemire, who converted to Judaism in 2020, dismissed the claims in the media for him stepping down from serving as an assistant coach, explaining that the real reason was so he could honor the Jewish Sabbath. Some in the media had conjectured Stoudemire had a beef with Nets star Kyrie Irving after Stoudemire had said to ESPN of Irving’s intermittent absences, “Yeah, I think it hurt us. It definitely hurt us because we didn’t have consistency enough with Kyrie to build chemistry with the group, with the team.” Because...