Does NBA MVP Kevin Durant owe his and the Thunder's playoff success to a Jewish triple blessing? After defeating the Clippers in the Western Conference Semifinal last week, one can only wonder.
The NBA's league MVP Kevin Durant and his Okalohoma City Thunder are squaring off against the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference Finals. But they might not have made it if Durant hadn't hedged his bets with a triple blessing from a group of rabbis he met at the Jewish Education Movement Community Center last week.
Durant met the rabbis while the team was training (via TMZ):
"Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder were training at the JEM (Jewish Education Movement) Community Center in L.A. before tonight's game ... and clearly rubbed some of the rabbis the right way, because they decided to give him a pre-game blessing.
"'MVP Kevin Durant and his team received a triple rabbi blessing from the founder of JEM, Rabbi Hertzel Illulian, Rabbi Yossi and Rabbi Benjamin Illulian.'"
Apparently, after the Thunder one the game, one of the rabbis was super relieved. He commented that he prayed for Durant to have a good game (TMZ):
"We spoke with Rabbi Illulian -- one-third of the 'Triple Rabbi Blessing' Durant received at the Jewish Education Movement center in L.A. just hours before the Thunder took on the Clippers.
"'I really prayed and I made a spiritual contact with my heart to Kevin,' the Rabbi says...
"'When I heard that [The Thunder] were losing by 16 points, I was a little disappointed ... I said, "Hey God, don't embarrass me today!"'"
However Durant and the Thunder won, they certainly have their hands full against perennial favorites the Spurs.
What do you think? Did the blessing give the Thunder an edge?
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