ASU men's basketball coach Bobby Hurley and guard Gerry Blakes at Pac-12 media day in San Francisco. Meghan Kuebler/Cronkite
If anyone knows Bobby Hurley's intensity, it's Kenny Anderson. In the early 1990s, the former Georgia Tech standout battled against Hurley for two years in the Atlantic Coast Conference, two All-Americans competing on both ends.
"He would just keep coming, just keep coming, just keep coming," Anderson says of the former Duke point guard.
That's the coach Arizona State wanted when it hired Hurley in April, replacing Herb Sendek after nine mostly average seasons in the desert.