Will a religious Jewish player soon arrive in the NBA? In the United States, people tend to believe that, in recent days, articles have surfaced about the college player at Yeshiva University in New York – Ryan Tourel by name. Quite a bit of interest throughout the best league in the world.
Tourel was the outstanding player in his team’s promotion to the top-16 in the 2019/20 season (provided 77% of the field), before everything was frozen following the spread of the corona virus. The goal was to reach the Final Four. Now, this season, he averages a great 26 points per game. His team with a streak of 37 wins.
Reports in articles about him, which surfaced on MSN and the Los Angeles Times (the city he originally came from) show that at least two NBA teams have already requested performance footage of Tourel, and a senior league official even stated that “he is certainly on the radar”. The headline about the main article about him reads that “he could be the first religious Jew in the NBA.”
Ryan Turell had scored 71 points in back-to-back Division III NCAA tournament wins for Yeshiva University last year before the shutdown.
NBA scouts would have to wait another year to fully evaluate the Van Nuys native. https://t.co/8Z4yfKJhmt
– LA Times Sports (@latimessports) March 17, 2021