{"id":95337,"date":"2022-05-23T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=95337"},"modified":"2022-05-14T16:54:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T14:54:47","slug":"23-00-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=95337","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Jewish YU Basketball Player, NBA Prospect Invited to Elite Draft Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Orthodox Jewish YU Basketball Player, NBA Prospect Invited to Elite Draft Camp<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Yeshiva University men\u2019s basketball player Ryan Turell. Photo: YouTube screenshot\/Overtime.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Ryan Turell, a forward for Yeshiva University men\u2019s basketball team The Maccabees, has been invited to join the NBA G League Elite Camp to be held in Chicago, it was\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The YU senior and Los Angeles native is one of 44 prospects for the 2022 NBA Draft \u2014 and the only NCAA Division III player \u2014 to receive an invitation to the camp, which will take place from May 15-17. The NBA G League is the National Basketball Association\u2019s official minor league basketball organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

Turell, 23, will get the chance to showcase his skills in front of NBA and NBA G League scouts, coaches and executives while playing in five-on-five games and taking part in strength and agility drills. Select players from the camp will be invited to participate in the Microsoft Surface NBA Draft Combine 2022, held May 18-22, also in Chicago. The combine is a step forward in the draft process for NBA prospects and leads to the NBA Draft 2022, presented on June 23.<\/span><\/p>\n

NBA players that have participated in past NBA G League Elite Camps include New Orleans Pelicans guard Jose Alvarado, LA Clippers guard Terance Mann and Miami Heat guard Max Strus, according to the NBA G League.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Turell hopes to become the first Orthodox Jewish basketball player in the NBA, recently telling the website\u00a0HoopsHype<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that doing so \u201cwould be a dream come true to me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019d be what I\u2019ve worked for my entire life to do,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd I think it\u2019d be a dream come true for a lot of people that thought that this wasn\u2019t possible, that a Jewish kid can\u2019t make the NBA. It would prove to them that they can go and hopefully prove to them that they can go achieve their dreams, that it doesn\u2019t matter where you come from, that as long as you put the work in you can do anything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When asked if he would feel pressure to teach NBA fans about Judaism as a pro athlete, he told the website, \u201cI take it happily but I think the pressure is a good thing. I view pressure as being able to prove things to people, to be able to inspire them, and this is a dream come true for me. I love to be able to inspire that way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Turell, who averaged 27.1 points per game in the NCAA III with YU, also spoke about taking online classes so he has more free time to spend on the court.\u201dMy whole life is basketball now, where I\u2019m really trying to focus on getting better every day,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m waking up earlier to train and do it more often than I was able to do when I was going to classes and whatnot.<\/span><\/p>\n

Turell plans to adhere to Shabbat if drafted into the NBA, he told\u00a0HoopsHype.<\/em>\u00a0If a game is scheduled on Friday after sundown or Saturday before sunset, he will plan ahead of time to stay at a hotel close to the gym, walk to the gym, play and not use electronic devices until Shabbat is over. He also admitted in the interview that he has a dream of one day playing basketball in Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Orthodox Jewish YU Basketball Player, NBA Prospect Invited to Elite Draft Camp Shiryn Ghermezian Yeshiva University men\u2019s basketball player Ryan Turell. Photo: YouTube screenshot\/Overtime. Ryan Turell, a forward for Yeshiva University men\u2019s basketball team The Maccabees, has been invited to join the NBA G League Elite Camp to be held in Chicago, it was\u00a0announced\u00a0on Monday. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95350,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95337\/revisions\/95350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}