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Steve Kerr on getting beat by Select Team: 'It's a time-honored tradition of USA Basketball'
“It’s a time-honored tradition of USA Basketball,” coach Steve Kerr said. “Everybody knows the Grant Hill, Bobby Hurley story from 92. In 2019, for the last World Cup, the select team came in, kicked our butts, and that’s the whole point. You want to get great talent to come in and challenge you and that’s what the Select team did today.”
Adam Zagoria: Updated Story: The game is suspended for the night. "The building shook side to side, it was crazy," Arizona State coach Bobby Hurley, who was in attendance and is OK, told me by text.
Twenty-five years later, Bobby Hurley doesn’t need to be reminded. The Arizona State coach knows the date. Dec. 12, 1993. The night his life forever changed. “That day is always like the worst for me to go through,” said Hurley, in his fourth season with the Sun Devils. “I’ll know when it’s that day. My wife knows, and she’s very understanding of how I might feel.” Hurley had just played the 19th game of his rookie season with the Sacramento Kings, all as a starter. In 19 minutes against the Los Angeles Clippers, he had gone scoreless, but posted seven assists in a 112-102 loss. Back then, Sacramento players generally took two ways home from Arco Arena — traveling the freeway or driving the backroads.
But, he was left off of the McDonald's All-American Game roster this year. He wrote on Twitter that he was "hurt." Which stinks for him. Being left off of a team like this is never fun - especially for a game as legendary as this one. And, his dad was the game's co-MVP (with Bobby Hurley) in 1989. But one thing the younger O'Neal did receive? Some encouraging words from a family friend: LeBron James.
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St. John's is interested in former NBA player and St. John's star Chris Mullin as Lavin's replacement. Mullin, who led St. John's to the 1985 Final Four, works as an adviser for the Sacramento Kings. St. John's also could pursue coaches Bobby Hurley (Buffalo) or Dan Hurley (Rhode Island), according to a source.
Many remember Hill as an athletic swingman with a flat-top haircut catching alley-oops from Bobby Hurley and winning national titles for Duke. But 17 years after he was the third overall pick in the draft by the Pistons, Hill remains without an NBA title, with a twice-reconstructed ankle but the desire to continue. He watched Jason Kidd, a fellow rookie of the year, win his first title last month, and is willing to keep striving for an opportunity to play in the Finals. Hill’s career has gone from one of promise, to misfortune, to longevity, and he is willing to wait out a potentially long lockout. “You definitely want to win, especially when you see somebody you are kind of linked to and somebody you have known for many years get there,’’ Hill said last week. “I don’t have too many more years left, so we have to wait and see. But it would be nice to do what [Kidd] was able to do this past season.’’
At camp, Spoelstra also witnesses something he's never laid eyes on before, a brand of freakish athleticism belonging to a player he had to face in his first game. "He was doing things none of us had seen before and doing it in an easy way," Spoesltra says of the 6-foot-9 prodigy. The kid's name is Shawn Kemp and, mercifully, Spoelstra never draws him on a switch. For the 17-year-old Spoelstra, facing Kemp in a competitive five-on-five environment isn't the most humbling experience of that summer. "I got absolutely annihilated at camp by a skinny white kid who was a year younger than me," Spoelstra says. "I remember after that camp, going home and thinking, 'I'm not nearly as good as I thought I was' and 'I don't know if I had a future in college basketball, because this kid kicked my ass.'" The skinny white kid's name? Bobby Hurley.
He might even get an assist from his old college point guard, Bobby Hurley, who will also be in Houston this weekend after just finishing his first season as an assistant coach for his younger brother, Dan, at Wagner College on Staten Island, NY. One thing’s for sure: Laettner’s already dreaming big. “Well the ultimate goal is to get a big time head college coaching job,” Laettner said. “If nothing happens in the college ranks, I’ve got to go to the NBA pre-draft camp this year in Chicago and let the people in the NBA know that I’m ready to be an assistant coach.”
Jalen Rose &. Co. admitted how much they despised the Blue Devils teams of the early 1990s in their documentary, “The Fab Five,” that debuted Sunday night on ESPN. “I noticed there was a high level of bitterness there, particularly directed towards us,” former Duke guard Bobby Hurley said on Dan Patrick's show today. “I wonder why? We were 3-0 against Michigan, so I can understand Jalen's frustrations.”
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