After using his father's blueprint at N.J.'s St. Anthony, Danny Hurley has built St. Benedict's into a power

	For the Hurleys, basketball is all in the family: (clockwise from top) Bob, Andrew, 4, Danny, Danny Jr., 7. Courtesy of the Hurley family

By Kevin Armstrong, SI.com

Dwan McMillan, a doe-eyed, deer-legged point guard, explodes to the basket, taking off on his left foot and gently rolling the orange, leather ball from his fingertips up over the rim and through the net. Upon releasing the ball, the 6-foot, 165-pound McMillan absorbs a hit from an assistant coach holding up a football blocking pad and returns to the hardwood to a screaming coach. 

"Dwan! Backboard or dunk!" yells St. Benedict's Prep (Newark, N.J.) coach Danny Hurley, standing underneath the basket. "Those are the options!"

The drill does not stop. Players dribble diagonally up the court from cone to cone, some stopping short for mid-range jump shots, others twisting through the lane for reverse layups. No eyes blink, no heads turn.

"There are three things that will never leave your mind if you play for St. Anthony High in Jersey City (N.J.)," Hurley says. "Backboard or dunk; play quick, not in a hurry; and jump to the ball. They just rattle around in your brain, and every time you're in a gym you just hear them."

On the court during this late October workout, at least six future Division 1 players are on the floor. And though they may be playing for St. Benedict's, the team has the markings of another Hurley. Bob Hurley Sr., Danny's father and the tough-love coach at St. Anthony, has won 873 games, 22 state championships, nine tournament of champions titles and two mythical national championships (1989 and 1996). He's also sent more than 125 former players to Division I teams. Hurley Sr. is high school basketball in New Jersey.

Father taught son many lessons and now, ironically, Danny is the one with the better team. Danny has won 131 games in five years at St. Benedict's and this year his team is ranked sixth in the nation with a 3-0 record. St. Anthony opens its season on Friday.

The Hurleys have long been the first family of basketball in New Jersey. Bobby Hurley starred at St. Anthony and then won back-to-back national championships at Duke in 1991 and '92 before graduating to the NBA. Bob Sr., who begins his 35th year of coaching this season, wears Bobby's 1992 championship ring on his right hand.

Retired from basketball after a stint as a scout for the Philadelphia 76ers, Bobby is now in the horse business, living in Hollywood, Fla., and breeding thoroughbreds, not hoop heads. But it is Danny, the younger brother and sardonic-humored son, who has taken to the family business.

"There's a lot of his father in Dan," says St. Benedict's headmaster Fr. Edwin Leahy, watching Danny walk across the court to chide a player for not hustling. "I think he makes a point of it not to embarrass kids publicly. He yells, but he has a habit of covering his mouth with his sweater. The kids can hear through the sweater, though."