JULY 22 • 2021 | 29

SPORTS

media, and texts and phone 
calls to family and friends to 
get the word out about the 
league as he tried to orga-
nize it. Old-fashioned word 
of mouth helped, too.
The effort began over the 
July 4 holiday weekend.
Plans to begin league play 
July 7 were squashed when 
players couldn’t get into 
Farber because of a power 
failure that followed strong 
storms that pelted southeast 
Michigan earlier in the day.
Power was still out in the 
Farber area the next night, 
so the opening night league 
games were pushed forward 
a week, as was the league 
schedule.
League games are two 
20-minute halves with run-
ning time except for the 
final two minutes of the 
second half, which are stop 
time.
Paid officials are calling 
the games.
Four weeks of regu-
lar-season league play will 
be followed by two weeks of 
single-elimination playoffs. 
all on Wednesday nights at 
Farber.
On the first playoff night, 

the No. 4 seed and No. 5 
seed teams will play.
Then the No. 1 seed will 
get the choice of facing the 
winner of the No. 4 seed vs. 
No. 5 seed game, or the No. 
2 or No. 3 seed in the semi-
finals that night.
The two teams the No. 1 
seed doesn’t select will play 
in the other semifinal game 
that night.
Shamayev plans to have 
special rules in place for 
the league championship 
game the following week. He 
hasn’t decided what those 
rules will be.
The champion team will 
win something paid for from 
the teams’ league entry fee, 
perhaps dinner at a kosher 
restaurant, Shamayev said.
Shamayev isn’t thinking 
about the league’s future 
at the moment. He’s more 
focused on the current sea-
son.
“If I’m in town, I’ll be 
happy to run the league each 
summer,” he said. “If I’m not 
around, hopefully somebody 
else will run it.” 

Please send sports news to 

stevestein502004@yahoo.com.

Young Israel of Oak Park and 
Young Israel of Southfield 
players take a break on 
opening night of the Detroit 
Shul Basketball League.

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