Several NBA teams have asked Ryan’s head coach for tape, saying they’ll be watching this season. Although he is a long shot for the league by any measure, even this level of interest is extraordinary given that the list of former Division III players currently in the NBA starts and ends with the Heat’s Duncan Robinson. And he moved up to Division I before going pro. Yet here now are the Turells talking about their boy’s pro prospects. There’s been little doubt for a while that Ryan could play in Europe or Israel, but the NBA musings are relatively recent. Laurel, the daughter of Southern Baptist evangelical singers, thinks providence may have played a small part in this fairy tale, but that’s a story for later. At the moment, she and Brad are explaining Ryan’s decision to bet his lifelong professional basketball dreams on a school better known for training rabbis, social workers, lawyers and doctors. Despite eldest child Jack’s positive experience studying and playing at Yeshiva, the family had greater expectations for Ryan.