The Miracle of St Anthony's

Published: Feb. 24, 2019, 4 a.m.

In the late 1960s, parole officer Bob Hurley became basketball coach at St Anthony\u2019s High School in Jersey City, New Jersey. In the years that followed, as the city got poorer and its streets more dangerous, Hurley\u2019s infamously exacting coaching style turned class after class of young men into championship material and put St Anthony\u2019s\u2014a school that didn\u2019t even have its own gym\u2014on the basketball map, winning multiple state championships and hundreds of games. Former NBA basketball player and one-time Democratic Party politician Terry Dehere tells the story of this very special high school with help from several generations of St. Anthony\u2019s players and supporters.