'Good citizen' Terry ready to join UA immortals

It has been a good holiday season for Jason Terry. The former Arizona point guard became just the third NBA player ever to make 2,000 three-pointers, joining Ray Allen and Reggie Miller in the exclusive club. Then the Pac-12 and UA combined to rule that Terry is now eligible to have his No. 31 Arizona jersey retired, ending a long ban triggered when Terry admitted he took money from an agent during his UA senior season of 1998-99. Terry has more than paid penance for that long-ago transgression. UA athletic director Greg Byrne said that school president Ann Weaver Hart was active and influential in making Terry’s jersey retirement (Feb. 19 at the USC-Arizona game) a reality. “It’s the right time,” Byrne said Saturday. “He’s a good citizen; the past is the past.” The UA will re-condition the retired jerseys of Sean Elliott, Steve Kerr, Jason Gardner and Mike Bibby, giving them a 21st century look, for the February celebration.

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