The Los Angeles Lakers are still without a head coach after Dan Hurley ultimately chose to stay in college and continue his career calling the shots for the UConn Huskies. It does not seem, however, that it was an easy decision to make for Hurley, who was rumored to have gotten an offer from the Lakers that was worth $100 million.
Los Angeles Lakers target Dan Hurley rumored to have ‘flipped’ decision
According to Jeff Goodman, Hurley changed his decision, hinting that the UConn bench boss at some point seemed convinced that coaching the Lakers was the right path to take.
“According to my sources, he flipped his decision. He may have flipped a couple of times. He has wrestled with this decision since Wednesday. This was not an easy decision– and it wasn’t a money decision,” Goodman said during a recent appearance on The Field Of 68.
It is worth noting that Goodman said that money wasn’t the issue at the center of Hurley’s flip-flopping. Hurley is being paid well at UConn. It’s not the offer the Lakers dangled at him, but it’s lucrative nonetheless. Perhaps it’s Hurley’s loyalty to the Huskies that he based his decision on the most. It is with UConn that Hurley truly became a star head coach after years of coaching the Wagner Seahawks and Rhode Island Rams.
In any case, it is back to the drawing board for the Lakers about their hunt for a new head coach.
The Lakers are looking for a new man for the job left by Darvin Ham, whom they fired after getting knocked out of the 2024 NBA Playoffs by Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, and the Denver Nuggets.
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