Irving is from West Orange, which boasts a large and vibrant Jewish population
For four of Kyrie Irving’s most formative basketball years, when the young teenager was honing the talent that would lead to him to being the 2011 No. 1 NBA draft selection, he was picked up for practice every day by a Jewish man named Sandy Pyonin.at a Hebrew day school in Irving’s hometown of West Orange, would shuttle Irving to the gym at the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association in Union — a dingy spot where the floor was well-worn and mezuzahs were affixed to the doors.
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