Dan Hurley brought about fairly a stir when he rejected a six-year, $70 million provide from the Lakers to turn into their subsequent head coach.
The deal was value greater than double what Hurley is at the moment incomes, however he elected to remain at UConn as an alternative.
Now, because the mud settles following the preliminary information, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski has supplied particulars as to why precisely Hurley turned down the Lakers’ provide.
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Woj spilled the beans in a dialog with SportsCenter’s Scott Van Pelt late on Monday night time.
“A couple of elements, Scott, beginning with the possibility to win a 3rd straight nationwide championship, do one thing that hasn’t been completed since John Picket’s Bruins,” Wojnarowski stated. “You’ll in all probability by no means get an opportunity to do this once more as a head coach.”
“However I feel the timing of going to the NBA… I feel he thinks he will likely be within the NBA sometime, however he wasn’t able to go now.”
Van Pelt then raised the potential of the NBA’s excessive calls for being one other potential issue.
“Hurley’s a man who grinds out each possession,” Van Pelt stated. “I simply puzzled concerning the enormity of simply what the NBA requires of you. And did he have the gear? In different phrases, I’m speaking about a capability to not grind out each half-court possession on some Tuesday night time in Memphis. You understand what I’m saying? Do you assume a part of that landed with him?”
Wojnarowski strongly agreed.
“You’re precisely proper, Scott,” he stated. “And I feel that will get to preparedness at 51 years outdated. And it’s not simply, you realize, that Tuesday night time in Sacramento or Memphis, but it surely’s the practices. It’s the referees. It’s working with administration, one thing you don’t should do as a school coach. You’re the GM.”
For now, it’s again to the drafting board for the Lakers, as their teaching search continues.
JJ Redick and James Borrego are each reportedly nonetheless into consideration for the job.
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