Jeter’s genuflection

Says taking a knee OK, but he wouldn’t do it

DEREK Jeter, new chief executive of the Miami Marlins, seemed to have come down on the side of players’ right to take a knee during the playing of the national anthem — although at a conference late last week, he said he personally would never do so, our Keith J. Kelly reports.

“It’s a peaceful protest,” he said Thursday, speaking at the Fast Company Innovation Festival at the 92nd St. Y, where he was talking about his publishing company, The Players Tribune.

“I guess if all protests were peaceful, the world would be a better place. You may not necessarily agree with how someone is protesting but as long as it’s peaceful.”

Jeter, who was remarkably good at avoiding controversy during his All Star Yankee career, said he started the Players Tribune in part to reflect players as individuals.

“Now saying that, would I kneel during the anthem? No, I don’t think I would kneel during the anthem,” Jeter said, still avoiding controversy.

Sneak(er) peek

The Steph Curry 4 sneaker is missing in action — or at least it’s late to the court.

The Golden State Warrior’s Under Armour shoe was supposed to debut Friday, but only the kid’s version was available. The adult version of the sneaker was just taking pre-orders for delivery on Nov. 18 on major retailers’ Web sites, according to footwear analyst Sam Poser of Susquehanna Financial Group.

Retailers, Poser wrote in a note, “are not happy and concerned that when the Curry 4 does arrive, the target customer will have already moved on to other things” — namely, the latest Nike shoe.

Since Nike controls 95 percent of the basketball biz, “we believe the Curry 4 will become an afterthought” when it finally comes out, Poser wrote.

A source at Under Armour said the adult version of the shoe was available on the company’s Web site on Friday and sold out under two hours.

Poser says the shoe was latee because of “last-minute design changes.” es.”

A UA source said there wass no design change.

Radio silence

iHeartMedia Chairman and CEO Bob Pittman portrays himself as a media titan.

Yet, with iHeart rt — America’s big- gest radio station n operator — fighting ing to avoid bankruptcy, Pittman’s thoughts hts are dead air, a source close to the he situation told our r Josh Kosman.

Reps from iHeart owners Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners have been present at creditor meetings — includding a key one last week to address iHeart’s $20 billion of debt — with no signs of Pittman, the source said.

Pittman, who has been chief of the troubled company since 2011, seems to have tuned out recently. iHeart de- clined comment.

Old school

Billionaire hedge funder James mes Simons had some harsh words for Peter Thiel’s efforts to pay stu-students to skip college.

“I think it’s the dumbest thingng I ever heard. I mean, really, ‘Wee don’t need training, let’s just get out there and do it,’ ” the oldschool Simons said incredu- louslylously at a breakfastb hosted by the IESE Business School on Thursday. Thiel, the entrepreneur known for co-founding PayPal as well as funding Hulk HogHogan’s lawsuit against GawkerGawker Media,M has long been critical of higher eeducation. He foundfounded the Thiel Fellowship in 2011. The two-year program pays students $100,000 to skip college and pursue their entrepreneurial ideas with guidance. “Maybe there’s one or ttwo people a year who ccould benefit from that,” Simons said. S Simons holds a Ph.D. in mamathematics and worked in acadamia prior to launching his $50 billion Renaissance Technologies fund in 1982.

Art imitates ...

The Harvey Weinstein chcharges have exposed plenty of hurt and shame, but they’ve alalso made the off-Broadway play “What We’re Up Against” aas relevant today as it was when written in 1992. A nonprofit production aarranged by Jenna Segal, wwhich opens at the Women’s Project Theater ono Nov. 8, addresses the battle ofo the sexes — not from the casting couchc of Hollywood, but from the cubicle land of an architecturetecture fifirm. Yet the parallels are so pronouncednounced that director Adrienne Campbell-Holt Campbell told her cast, including Krysta Rodriguez (pictured), who plays Eliza,E “Somebody should do a play about people rehearsing a play like this while a scandal like this is coming out,”she told our Richard Morgan.