(JTA) — Former National Basketball Association All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire will return to the Hapoel Jerusalem basketball team, if he does not secure a position in the NBA, according to an announcement by the team on Sunday.
Stoudemire played for the New York Knicks and Phoenix Suns among other teams in a 16-year NBA career. He previously played for the Jerusalem team for a year, and left in September 2017, citing a desire to return to the NBA. Stoudemire is a partial owner of Hapoel, which he had to suspend in order to play.