Dan Hurley has spoken truthfully about his spouse Andrea’s response to the Lakers providing her husband the pinnacle teaching position.
The UConn coach turned down LA’s six-year, $70 million contract supply to chase a three-peat within the nationwide championship with the Huskies.
The 51-year-old obtained brutally trustworthy about how the entire state of affairs, together with the wild media circus, affected his spouse.
“She was like crying at first,” Hurley mentioned throughout an look on The Dan Le Batard Present with Stugotz on Thursday. “I believe initially, the primary couple days of it, she obtained violently offended and emotional, not like hitting me and stuff… she obtained emotional like, ‘I can’t imagine you’re bringing this. Our life is so nice… it’s good. Our lives couldn’t be higher and now you’re bringing this sh*t.
“So, she was dangerous at first however then she warmed as much as it after we obtained on the market and she or he met [Lakers GM] Rob [Pelinka] and she or he met Jeanie [Buss] and felt the climate. We drove round Manhattan Seashore and simply met the individuals largely. And she or he noticed the imaginative and prescient of it. She was into it.
“However then after we obtained again to Connecticut with out having decided and we obtained again residence and we each flipped again [to UConn].”
Hurley went on to clarify that he would have taken extra time to mull the supply over, however put a deadline on the choice.
“[The decision] was weighing on me and my spouse and my two sons and our entire household,” Hurley mentioned, including that issues had “develop into an excessive amount of of a circus” within the media.
He additionally shut down the rumor that he used the Lakers teaching supply as leverage to get a greater contract with the Huskies.
“One of many worst takes I’ve heard is that it is a leverage play by me to enhance my state of affairs at UConn,” Hurley informed Le Batard.. “I don’t want leverage right here. We’ve received back-to-back nationwide championships at this place. This was by no means a leverage state of affairs for me.
“I’ve had a contract in place right here for a few weeks. And the ultimate half, when it comes to wage, has been executed for some time. There are another elements, like NIL and employees wage and a few various things, that I would like adjusted and I’m not snug with. However the sense of the concept this was some conspiracy to get me a sweeter deal at UConn is simply, it’s lazy.”
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