The father of Kentucky freshman Tyler Herro played basketball well enough to draw scholarship offers from such schools as Florida State and Saint Louis.
A torn anterior cruciate ligament dashed Chris Herro’s basketball dreams. He said he “pivoted wrong” in the first week of practice of his high school senior year and — poof — he was no longer a basketball player.
“Honestly, it took me a while to get over it,” he said. “Three or four years. When you try to achieve your goal, and you have a passion for the game, it’s tough to swallow that.