Las Vegas • Jack Murphy zigzagged across his hometown, ducking into gyms to watch AAU basketball players on all points of the Las Vegas compass.
Some stops lasted minutes, long enough for Murphy to stand near a doorway to evaluate a player who just popped up on his radar. Others, he stayed the entire game, prominently positioned with an assistant coach at his side in a show of solidarity toward a player — and his family — they hope to sign.
The Northern Arizona coach made 11 stops in all — some gyms multiple times — that 14-hour, crisscrossed day, the first of three marathons during the summer's final live evaluation period.