![]() Hurt’s first professional action will likely come in a week’s time, when the NBA Summer League tips off on Sunday. (Coco and Kelly Miller, twins that led Rochester Mayo to back-to-back girls’ basketball state titles in the 90s, were the first Rochesterites to play American professional basketball when they made the WNBA in 2001.) I think about those days and how cool it was to know someone who played professional hockey, and now to see it from this perspective and have one of my kids have an opportunity to do the same thing - it’ll be a special moment.” “I went to school with Doug Zmolek, so I got to see him put on a professional jersey at that age. “He’s always talked about representing Rochester, so it’s a pretty cool thing to think about,” said Hurt. If his son can crack the Rockets roster and make his big-league debut, he would become the first person from Rochester to set foot on an NBA court - an honor that’s been on the minds of the Hurts for years. ![]() ![]() (“He had a great workout in Houston… they really liked him,” he said.) Reached before the draft, Rich Hurt, Matthew’s father and childhood coach, said Houston was one of 14 teams his son worked out for in pre-draft phases. The 6’9” small forward turned pro after playing college basketball at Duke University for two seasons, earning First Team All-ACC honors in his sophomore campaign while leading the conference in scoring (18.6 PPG). One of the most successful Rockets in school history is a Rocket once again.ĮSPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported over the weekend that former John Marshall basketball standout Matthew Hurt signed a two-way contract with the NBA’s Houston Rockets, after going undrafted in Thursday’s NBA Draft.
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