Five of the most memorable moments from ESPN's Bobby Hurley E:60 documentary

Kami Mattioli

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ESPN's E:60 documentary on Bobby Hurley premiered earlier this week. The 60-minute piece is a tremendous tale about the highest highs and the lowest lows of the Duke legend's life, from his storied high school career to the devastating car accident that nearly killed him.

Several of the most influential people in college hoops history were gathered to weigh in on Hurley's legacy, including his former coach Mike Krzyzewski, former Seton Hall coach P.J. Carlesimo, ex-Michigan star Jalen Rose and plenty of Hurley's former teammates at Duke.

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The narrative follows Hurley from his beginnings in Jersey City on the St. Anthony's squad his father, Bob, coached, through his current job as the head coach at Arizona State. Without spoiling any of the documentary's best moments, some of the best stories about Hurley are the ones narrated by his friends and family.

Here are five of the most memorable moments retold from ESPN's "Hurley."

The now-infamous diarrhea game

The moment that Hurley says he'll never live down is Duke's 1990 Final Four appearance against Arkansas — not for anything he did on the court, though. At one point during the game, he had to run into the locker because he had the runs. Coach K added insult to injury after the game, telling reporters the reason for Hurley's racing off the court was due to diarrhea.

More than 20 years later, people still remember it. Immodium, the anti-diarrheal medicine, even sent the team some capsules in the wake of Krzyzewski's announcement.

"That was hard to break free from," Hurley says in the documentary. "That's gonna stay with me forever once that was let out of the bag." 

Krzyzewski countered: "Why are you ashamed? Do you think all of us at some time in our lives haven't had diarrhea?"

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Keeping K from bolting to Celtics

After UNLV trounced Duke in the 1990 NCAA Championship game, Krzyzewski was at a crossroads in his career: the Celtics wanted to hire him.

It was a turning point for Hurley, too. In the documentary he recalls their conversation after suffering the worst defeat in NCAA title game history.

"I said, 'Hey coach, don't leave. This is not what we talked about.' He said, 'Well, are you holding up your end of the bargain here? Are you working as hard as you need to work?'"

Krzyzewski, as you know, returned and Duke went on to claim the 1991 NCAA championship and repeated the same feat one year later.

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Jalen Rose still hates Duke (and Hurley)

The Duke-Michigan bad blood peaked during the Fab Five and Hurley/Christian Laettner/Grant Hill era, including the 1992 Final Four battle in which the Blue Devils pounded the Wolverines by 20 points.

Former "Fab Five" standout Jalen Rose still — whether jokingly or not — can't tolerate Hurley after all these years.

When asked to describe his foe in the documentary, Rose said this: "Bobby Hurley — a champion, a whiner, a crybaby... the best point guard in the history of Duke basketball."

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Danny living in his brother's shadow

Danny Hurley had the most unenviable job of any sibling: living in the ever-growing shadow of his older brother, the NCAA's all-time assists leader who ended up as a lottery pick in the 1993 NBA Draft.

A tough task for anyone, but an even more challenging one for another basketball-loving brother. Danny chose the hometown program in Seton Hall and the 1992 NCAA Tournament aligned in a way that pit the two Hurleys against each other.

Duke won, and though Bobby had a subpar game, the pressure seemed to break Danny's spirit. He stepped away from basketball for a year.

"I was broken, emotionally. No one could fairly live up to (Bobby's legacy). It was a horrible thing to deal with," Danny said in the documentary.

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The accident

ESPN had old footage of many of the newscasts that covered the December 1993 accident that nearly claimed Bobby's life in his rookie season. The car Bobby was driving was sideswiped on his way home from the arena one night. He was ejected from the vehicle and thrown nearly 70 feet into a ditch, as retold in the documentary.

Hours after the accident, his family clamored to be by his bedside after receiving a call from the Kings that he was in grave condition.

His dad, Bob, and Danny recall what they were thinking when they first arrived at UC Davis Medical Center after the accident.

"His entire body was traumatized," Bob said. "You couldn't even recognize him."

"How is this guy ever going to live again?" Danny remembered thinking.

Bonus material: Laettner and Hurley used to go at each other frequently while at Duke. There was a hilarious scene in the documentary where Laettner admitted he used to intentionally sign his name over Hurley's face on team posters just to mess with him because he knew it got under Hurley's skin.

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E:60 Hurley will re-air on Thursday at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN2 and 10 p.m. PT on ESPNews.

Kami Mattioli