A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbable Dynasty
by Adrian Wojnarowski
appears in Basketball, Sports, and Nonfiction.
In a city mired in endless decay, where the youth suffer through all the horrors of urban blight, hope comes in a most unassuming form: a tiny brick schoolhouse run by two Felician nuns where a singular basketball genius takes teenagers from the mean streets of Jersey City and turns them into champions on the hardcourt. Coach Bob Hurley had been wo...
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