Why Hurley Didn't play

["Josh Farber" <nbaj2k@home.com>]

Well I guess this is why he didn't play for us at the Shaw's Summer League.
Josh
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Bobby Hurley retires from pro basketball
October 19, 2000

JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY -- Bobby Hurley, the former All-America guard from
Duke whose return to the NBA following a near fatal auto accident served as
a symbol of inspiration, has retired from pro basketball, his father
confirmed today.

Bob Hurley Sr., the legendary basketball coach at St. Anthony Prep in Jersey
City, said his son never completely recovered from a torn ACL suffered in
the car accident on December 12, 1993, when he was a member of the
Sacramento Kings.

"He had knee surgery a year ago and (doctors) discovered the torn ACL. It
had never been properly taken care of," Hurley's father told SportsTicker.
"They attached it to another tendon. But it didn't respond. He was hoping to
come back and try again but he found it wasn't stable. Playing in a Shore
League last summer he blew the knee out again. He wanted to play again, but
he was having problems moving laterally and retreating."

Bobby Hurley, 29, hasn't played in the NBA since 1998. A star playmaker for
Duke from 1990-93, he was the No. 1 draft pick of the Kings in 1993 and was
off to a fine start in his rookie season when tragedy struck.

Following a game at Arco Arena only 13 days before Christmas, Hurley was
driving his Toyota truck through a quiet intersection when it was slammed
broadside by a station wagon. Not long after a teammate, Mike Peplowski,
happened by the accident and found Hurley crumbled in a ditch by the side of
the road.

He was rushed to the hospital and doctors managed to save his life. While
some doctors believed he would never play basketball again, Hurley was
determined to return to the NBA and finally did, playing 68 of 82 games in
the 1993-94 season.

But he clearly was not the same player he was before the accident. He played
with Sacramento through the 1996-97 season, but the Kings traded him to
Vancouver in February of 1998. He finished the season with the Grizzlies,
which was to be his last in the NBA.

Hurley Sr. said his son will now concentrate on a new endeavor --
thoroughbred racing. Bobby Hurley owns six thoroughbreds and two of them,
Song and a Prayer and Shooter, have potential to be big winners. Song and a
Prayer was sired by former champion Unbridled Song and Shooter was sired by
a former champion Dehere, which was named after Terry Dehere, a former
teammate of Hurley's at St. Anthony.

"He has some very good horses," the elder Hurley said. "He's going to be
living between the Jersey Shore and Florida, but mostly in Florida because
that's where his horses are being trained."