Ever since I can remember, starting when I covered Jason Terry and the Arizona Wildcats basketball team for the Arizona Daily Star from 1996 to 1998, Terry was never the cookie-cutter type.
Terry did things his way, walked his own path and said whatever was on his mind.
Terry's habit of sleeping with his Arizona uniform and those knee-high "CATS" socks the night before games became legendary.
I remember that during Arizona's two-week trip to Australia in 1997, a couple of months after winning the national title, Terry was one of the more vocal players about wanting to head back home early. Lute Olson, who valued the foreign tours when he coached, would have none of that.
When I was within earshot of Terry during the trip, he said he hoped he never had to play professionally in Australia. He didn't like it there and made that obvious in one of the player postcards he delivered to me to print in the newspaper. This came after Olson told the Wildcats to forget about leaving. Terry stuck to his opinion, no matter what the Hall of Fame coach thought.
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