Oy vey: Brooklyn bungles Jewish Heritage T-shirts

The Nets celebrated Hanukkah with Jewish Heritage Night Thursday against the Sixers offering Tshirts with the words “Represent Brooklyn” in Hebrew. Only the “Brooklyn” part, in Hebrew, was misspelled, an error spotted on the team’s official Twitter account. The Nets moved quickly to rectify the goof.

“We are sorry for the Tshirt mistake. It’s been rectified. We are looking forward to a great game on Jewish Heritage Night,” the team tweeted.

Shirts, with the proper spelling, were on sale at the team’s store by gametime.

There is the Jahlil Okafor people know from videos posted online — a brawling, twit who finds trouble easier than residents of River City with his offcourt episodes.

And there is the Jahlil Okafor the Sixers staff sees, a rookie strug gling with the adjustment to the difficulties of professional basketball on the court.

“I think it’s been incredibly difficult,” Sixers coach Brett Brown said of the No. 3 selection in last June’s draft.

“He’s 19 years old and so to all the sudden get featured in the national media’s headlights, kind of on a repetitive basis for a little while during that period last week, that’s jawdropping for anybody, let alone a 19yearold,” Brown said prior to the Nets’ 10091 victory.

Okafor starred, albeit unwillingly, in two videos that featured apparent separate brawls in Boston. After the second video made the rounds, the Sixers suspended the Duke product for two recent games. Those videos were not Okafor’s first incidents. In October, he was pulled over for driving 108 mph in Philadelphia where, in another incident, a heckler pointed a gun at him.

In his first game back after his twogame ban (one against the Knicks), Okafor shot 3of14 in a 51point loss to the Spurs. Against the Nets, he had 22 points and 10 rebounds.

“I’m just trying to get my rhythm back,” Okafor said. “That comes with playing more games and getting your flow back. ... I’m just trying to get better every game.”

The Nets shot .500 for the game — .600 in the first half. The Sixers missed their first 15 3pointers, ended at 4of31, and shot 39.1 percent overall. ... The Sixers’ 13 points in first quarter were the fewest surrendered by the Nets in any quarter this season.

Nets coach Lionel Hollins on the bench contributions: “That’s why we have 13 players and everybody has to be ready. We don’t know what’s going to happen in a game, who’s going to sprain an ankle or get into foul trouble.”