It sounds impossible.
How could a broken arm be the luckiest break that could happen to someone?
Yet ask Chattanooga State basketball coach and former University of Tennessee point guard Jay Price about the arm he broke last February when he punched a locker in anger during halftime of a game at Motlow State, and he’ll tell you exactly that.
“It was a Godsend,” Price said Tuesday on New Year’s Eve, two days before the start of the Chattanooga Times Free Press Best of Preps Tournament, which he has directed the past six years.
“If I hadn’t broken my arm that night, by the time anybody realized I had cancer, it might have been too little too late.”