The Long Shot

He was Dan Hurley’s first college recruit. Now, the Elizabeth legend is a Globetrotter in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Latif Rivers entertains children at Madison Square Garden in 2023. Harlem Globetrotters

On Day 1 as a college head coach, Dan Hurley hopped in his dusty rose RAV4 and sped up Interstate 95 to Connecticut. His first recruiting target was a 6-foot-1 guard who was twice named M.V.P. of Hurley’s summer basketball camp at St. Benedict’s Prep when he was a boy.

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