First-round NBA draft pick Omri Casspi stopped by Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday to pray at the Western Wall and tour its adjacent tunnels with Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yaakov Gloiberman, director of Yad B’Yad and a rabbinical friend of many Israeli athletes.

Gloiberman helped Casspi don tefillin, which was photographed by the Yediot Achronot newspaper.

As a player for Maccabi Tel Aviv, Casspi finished fourth in the FIBA Europe Young Men’s Player of the Year Award. But in June, Casspi made history as the first Israeli to be picked by an NBA team in the first round of the draft. The 23rd pick overall, he was selected by the Sacramento Kings, and signed a three-year $3.5 million contract with the team. …