Special Ryan Turell shirts being made for the 2/4 game, in case you doubted how big that event is gonna be □ /X58U7TvJNxĬohen, a self-described “extremely online fan of Jews in sports,” said he started following Turell a few years ago, during the Maccabees’ unlikely 50-game winning streak. 4 game that is no longer available - plus branded kippahs, sweatshirts and hats for sale on his website. The wigs Cohen referenced are just one way Turell fans have shown their support for the golden-haired prospect: There are Turell-branded shirts - including a special one for the Feb. 4 is the day after Turell’s 24th birthday.) fans - and that some singing may even break out in the stands, as is customary at Maccabees games. And chanting ‘We want Ryan!’ I’m going to be leading that if no one else will.”īrad Turell said his son’s return to New York could be “emotional and cathartic” for Y.U. A lot of the fans coming to the game are going to be chanting for him, wearing blonde wigs or wearing his shirts, and screaming for one specific opposing player who’s on the bench more than he’s on the floor. “And it’s interesting, because he’s playing for the road team. “I’m predicting that it’s going to be really, really wild,” Cohen said. He anticipates that quite a few of his fellow Y.U. He said he “wouldn’t miss” the game in New York.Ĭohen, who grew up near the Nets arena on Long Island, also said he will be at the Feb. They understood it, they didn’t question it, they didn’t say there’s red tape,” Brad Turell said.īrad Turell, a communications executive at a Los Angeles talent agency, said he and his family have been to seven of Ryan’s games in Detroit, plus the three recent matchups in Los Angeles. Within 24 hours, the game was moved to 7 p.m. “We just told the Nets, hey, by the way, you have Ryan Turell, it’s his return to New York, a lot of Jews from Long Island and the surrounding area would love to attend, if you made the game after sundown,” Brad Turell said. He and another observant fan both contacted the Nets about the conflict. which would present a challenge for those who do not travel on Shabbat. That wasn’t always the plan: Brad Turell, Ryan’s father, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the matchup was originally scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday night, an hour after Shabbat will end. fans that have watched Ryan play for four years at Y.U., and now they’re going to have a chance to see him in a G League uniform in New York,” said Simmy Cohen, a Y.U. “I don’t think people realize, there’s so many Y.U. fans to see their former star in action since he graduated. 4 game will be the first opportunity for Y.U. The 6-foot-7 forward has drawn a growing crowd of Jewish fans in Detroit as an openly Orthodox player who wears a kippah on the court. Turell, the former Yeshiva University basketball star who in October became the first known Orthodox player to be drafted into the G League, is returning to New York for the first time this season, as his Motor City Cruise - the Detroit Pistons’ minor league affiliate - take on the Long Island Nets at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. 4, the game will represent a homecoming of sorts. ( JTA) - Ryan Turell may be from Los Angeles, but when he returns to New York as a member of an NBA G League team on Feb.
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