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Missouri's McIntyre
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HARLAN C. ABBEY SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
hat's a fellow
named John McIn-
tyre, a graduate of
Catholic Central
High School in Detroit, doing
representing the nation of
Israel in the World Universi-
ty Games?
McIntyre, a star long-range
shooter for the University of
Missouri, was interviewed at
the Games, which were being
held in the United States for
the first time, in mid-July, in
Buffalo.
"The only things I knew
about 'Jewish; he said, "were
going to a friend's bar mitz-
vah when we both were 13
and going to junior high in
Detroit, and maybe eating a
bagel at Mizoo.
"I didn't have many Jewish
friends as I grew up and I
didn't even know that there
were Jewish fraternities at
Missouri. Now I'm married to
a Jewish woman — whose
father was a rabbi — and our
son, who'll be born in a few
weeks — will be raised as a
Jew"
At Missouri, McIntyre set
the school record for most
three-point baskets in a
season (50) and also is in the
record books as tying for the
most assists in one game, 13.
Most of his passes went to
Doug Smith and Anthony
Peeler, now playing in the
NBA, as Missouri was ranked
No. 1 among college teams for
four weeks in 1989-90.
"This past season I was
signed by a Division I team
for $185,000 over three
years," McIntyre continued.
"In our first three games, of
which we won one, I averag-
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ed 15 points a game.
"But then the team decided
to replace me with a big man,
stopped paying me, and the
situation is still in arbitra-
tion." The team continued to
pay his apartment rent and in
the meantime he was married
to Yaffa — in Crete, because in
Israel only Orthodox rabbis
can perform "life cycle"
events. It was a civil
ceremony. Their son is due in
late August.
As for the coming year
McIntyre has heard he will be
assigned to a Division III
team as an Israeli — although
he is not a citizen — "and
should do well in that league?'
He believes his Division I
team, Maccabi Haifa, will pay
part of his salary.
In Buffalo, McIntyre had
his ups and downs as Israel
finished sixth — but not
before defeating silver-
medalist Canada and being
in a nip-and-tuck game with
bronze-medalist China until
the last two minutes.
Israel beat North Korea,
89-79,. then lost to Finland,
72-71, in probably McIntyre's
best game, 25 points in-
cluding five 3-pointers late in
the contest; all Israel had to
do was not lose by nine points
to advance to the next round.
Israel had chances for the
tying basket against Finland,
but players with lay-ups pit-
ched the ball out past the
3-point line, fearing a tie
score in regulation might lead
to a defeat in overtime by
more than 9 points.
Israel lost to China, 91-79,
then to a 65 percent shooting
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Undrafted by the NBA,
McIntyre played in the Con-
tinental Breakfast Associa-
tion but "I just wasn't getting
the minutes; I was averaging
10 points per game but play-
ing only 18 minutes and there
wasn't going to be any call
from the NBA on that basis,"
he said.
"An agent asked me if I'd be
interested in playing in
Israel, so I went there."
Playing in that nation's
Division II, which allows each
team to have two "import"
players (the rest are Israeli
nationals), McIntyre averag-
ed 38 points per game. He was
paid $35,000 plus was given
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of a car, cash for meal money
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