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While playing Maccabiah basketball next month, Scott
Zack will look hard at Israel's professional league.

MIKE ROSENBAUM SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

pproximately 600 U.S. ath- years. "It's going to be hard just
letes and coaches will at- being away from home for so long.
tend the 15th World But it's going to be a great expe-
ccabiah Games in Israel rience, hopefully, if everything
next month. But at least one goes right.
"It's another experience. I only
doesn't plan to come back.
have a certain amount of
West Bloomfield High
School graduate Scott Zack, Scott Zack time to do all this ... I really
don't know what to expect
who'll play for the U.S. bas-
at Ohio
ketball team, will stay in Is-
over there. But everyone I've
State.
ever talked to said they loved
rael to begin a professional
it over there."
basketball career.
Zack is no stranger to Maccabi
"I'm going to look at some teams
while I'm over there," Zack says. competition. He participated in
"And I'm probably going to just several North American JCC-
stay over there. Pm talking to a lot Maccabi Youth Games, as well as
of teams right now. It depends on last year's Maccabiah Pan Am
what team I want to go with. Games. He calls the Pan Am "a
That's what Pm going to do for the good experience, meeting all those
different Jewish people from
next couple years."
Zack, who played college bas- around the world."
After starring at West Bloom-
ketball at Ohio State and at Ur-
bana (Ohio) College, believes he field, Zack decided to attend Ohio
can play pro ball in a number of State and play basketball as a
European countries, 'but since I'm walk-on. He didn't see action as a
Jewish, I'm going to try Israel first. freshman, but blossomed as a
'1 guess basketball is getting re- sophomore and played about 10
ally big over there. Israel's in the minutes per game.
"I was a late starter," Zack ex-
European League. There are guys
over there who used to play in the plains. "I never played basketball
NBA, like Tom Chambers and unti110th grade. So I wasn't, prob-
Dennis Hopson. Lawrence Fun- ably, the caliber of player a college
derburke from Ohio State played would've taken, at first. But after
I got to Ohio State they saw that
over there."
Zack has never visited Israel, I had potential."
so he isn't sure how he feels about
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