This guys Katz is an amateur. "Pray for us"??? Katz should call up the experts - the guys at Shas and hire them as consultants on different ways to leverage Torah to win support. They could provide a whole menu of services: Amulets, promises of heaven, putting a curse on the enemy (sons of pigs and monkeys etc.)

this jew is praying for shaq and the heat.

is most likely to be Answered after you have put on tefilllin, given charity, and supported the publication of Torah-based books.

All America prays for the Miami Heat and that great Jewish American, Shaquille Ben O'Nealstein.

who cares who the owner is?

he should invest his money in Israel, not Miami.

Hey Israeli dude . You just contradicted yourself....LOL

Unbelievable arrogance and chutzpah! How dare Raanan Katz ask Israelis to go to the Western Wall to pray for his basketball team. If Israelis go to pray, it should be for what Israel needs and that is protection from the heat that surrounds the tiny country. This incredible arrogance is characteristic of too many Israelis, and there is a terrible lesson coming.

Whoever doesn't like the Heat just because there owner is an Israeli redefines what it means to be a chaunchbag. You need to wise up, mister.

Root for the Mavs!

These people who pray to God over a sporting event really make me laugh. Is this the same God who didn't do anything to stop the Holocaust?

Fairest guy in the world. He's worked hard and deserves everything he has. I'm not an Israeli, but I'm praying for Miami!!

Praying at the Western Wall or anywhere else for a sport team victory? Ata mishugah...

I'll pray for you. They need to go to the wall...and puke.. I know you have money on the game.. Your most valued thing in life.

maybe instead of us going to the wall, all the players on the Heat should huddle up and give themselves a Chai Five!! god just might then allow them to sink a few more 3 pointers...

The owner of a team doesn't really matter. Praying for a sports team to do well? We all have graver concerns than that.

How silly can you get!! If there is a god and he is paying attention to the planet, there must be a lot more to concern himself with than a basketball game. And Israel has many more things to be concrened with than a basketball game!!! Get a clue and "pray" for something that is worth "praying" for!!! End world hunger, racial issues, end to terrorism, etc!!!

Boruch ata Hashem alukeyni melech h’olem borey pre hashaq!

I prayed for the Mavericks last night. It looks like God answered my prayers. If God is rooting for the Mavericks there is no need to pray.

The only thing I will be praying for is that I get rich enough one day to own a pro basketball team.

Mr. Katz had better think twice before asking Israel for help. Consider this: Dallas Maverick owner Mark Cuban is also Jewish, as is Dallas Mayor Laura Miller. Looks like Dallas has Miami double-teamed here.

With all the strife and violence in Mr. Katz's home country, and the Middle East in general, I am disgusted he would request Wailing Wall prayers for something as trite and trivial as a BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP. In fact, I am often shamed by Society's value of entertainment above Human Rights. Besides.... EVERYBODY KNOWS God is a Mavs fan! :) GO MAVS! Cindy

Go, Dallas.

Give me a break! This just shows how out of touch these billionaires are with the real world. I'm quickly losing interest in professional sports, due to the arrogance of the owners and players. There are real people with real problems, and we could be looking at nuclear war in the mid-east soon. I think we much more serious issues to pray about.

The owner of the Miami Heat needs to save his words and not try to place the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob on the side of a mere basketball game. God does not take sides in who can put a piece of canvas in a nylon hoop! Eternity God's word is not hinging on the dunk of a Shaq or the swag of a Miami cheerleader. This Heat owner is too goofy for words. Go the Wailing Wall and pray about a basketball game? The time would be best spent praying that the Jewish People will see Jesus as God in the Flesh as as their Lord and Savior.

"Every Israeli must support us; they must go the Western Wall and pray for us. Miami Heat is no less Israeli than Maccabi. This is also a group with Israeli ownership in which many Americans play." One of those Americans is Shaquille O'Neal. O’Neal by the way invited, unrepentant Jew-hater, Louis Farrakhan to his wedding. Shaq has also attended at least one of Farrakhan's "love-ins" - where no doubt Jewish people were denigrated. I will be praying for Dallas to win. Because I respect Jewish people. Imagine if you will Larry Bird attending Klan meetings. Is there any difference between that and Shaq attending a Farrakhan gathering? I don’t see any. The question must be asked, if Raanan Katz has so much Israeli pride, why is Shaquille O'Neal playing on his team?

Mavericks, Heat, Dallas, Miami. I'm a native Dallasite. I think I'll just pray for everyone that we enjoy the gift of sport G_d's given us. What a gift. I think G_d just loves us all -- regardless of who wins or loses. Isn't that enough?