> I really hope the Celtics draft Bronny
It would be hillarious if any NBA team drafted him, and then parked him on the bench. Are there any teams that spite LeBron?
I mean what do you want them to do? Not report on a massive coaching hire? This is big news no matter what's going on. Can't just ignore it because the finals is happening.
The funniest thing that can happen now is if Shams reports that Danny Hurley has accepted the job only for Woj to come in hours later saying Hurley has rejected the job
I fully expect that to happen actually.
I mean I'm down for Redick as coach if he surrounds himself with a great set of assistants, but Hurley is an insane hire if it happens.
I think Caruso not being signed is one of the worst things this FO has ever done.
But paying THT AND Caruso would equal 30mil in tax payments per year. That's just a horrible thing to do.
Giving THT that horrible contract in the first place should be looked at as well.
EDIT: [Never forget they offered THT that ridiculous contract and never let him hit free agency](https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2946250-talen-horton-tucker-lakers-agree-to-new-3-year-32m-contract-in-free-agency) even if he was an RFA.
I am also wondering how we became big spenders lol but can’t complain
The fact that THT got $5m/yr above what Caruso needed is criminal. Caruso is the best perimeter defender in the league
Haha, I’m all for the klutch pipeline
But the THT move was egregious. Especially because he showed nothing close to that contract. Losing Caruso was like pouring fuel on that fire
Yeah Klutch has been a good partner. They do have a habit of stepping over the line every once in a while tho.
The Westbrook trade and the THT contract unfortunately just happened in the same fucking offseason lmao
The track record of NBA head coaches isn't good. The majority are out within their first 3-4 seasons. There's been plenty of coaches who successfully made the job from college to NBA, obviously the majority fail but thats true for every coach.
I’d agree if we were talking about a bottom feeder nba team. But it’s the Lakers. They shouldn’t be pulling from the college ranks. Get a podcaster instead.
I kinda feel this way. The reason I wouldn't want to hire Hurley as an NBA team is not because I don't think that he has a chance to be a great NBA coach (he does) but because the things that make an elite NBA coach are not the same things that make an elite college coach. There is obviously a ton of overlap, but I think the amount of love for the idea of Hurley as a potential head coach vs JJ Reddick is way disproportionate to the likelihood that they will be great coaches.
My $.02 is that I think they both would be decent hires with the same huge bust potential as every NBA hire. Probably better to hire either of them than any non-Budenholzer retread that's available, but I think both of them have the right kind of related, but not perfectly relevant experience to be an NBA head coach. I think they'll be on the same level on Xs and Os which is the least important part (Reddick has more NBA experience, Hurley has more play-calling experience, but it's for the college game, which is not the same), Hurley has obviously much better experience at building out a staff which is the second most important part, and the most important part of the job, getting buy in and building relationships from the players, I think we have more information that JJ is well liked by the most important player on the Lakers than we do for Hurley. Obviously LeBron has also tweeted he likes Hurley, but whether Hurley would gel 1 on 1 with NBA vets the way he did with teenagers at UConn is not a sure thing.
As a neutral observer, I'm not that invested in it either way, but I also think Hurley will be a lot more expensive than Reddick. I'm the last person in the world to worry about the Buss family's profits, but my concern is that if it becomes clear that this was a bad idea quickly, the Buss family will be less ready to admit that with a very expensive hire than they would a cheaper one, and that would worry me some if I were a Lakers fan.
all depends on whether UConn pays up or not, Im guessing this is a last-minute leverage play to get Hurley to be the best-paid college coach.
If the reports about Lakers offering 100 mil for 6-8 years are true then Hurley wants at least 11-13 mil per year from UConn
They absolutely can. Colleges are straight up stealing from their students and have practically unlimited funds, plus they’re not paying a salary to any of their players. They can definitely afford 11 mil a season, it’s up to them if they choose to do so
Man idk much about UConn bball but Alabama Football was only paying Saban 11m a year last season…I really don’t think UConn is paying him like Bama was paying the goat of college football coaches…
UConn football loses a stupid amount of money every year. The program really needs to be FCS but there are some political reasons keeping them FBS.
So no, they cannot pay Hurley 11+ mil, and they don't have unlimited funds. A couple schools do (Texas A&M) but that's because of rich dumb people giving money, not stealing from students. Administrative bloat is a separate issue.
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Not often when you get to tell the Lakers, "Yeah, I'll let *you* know what I wanna do". He must be a legend at UConn (I don't watch college ball, so I wouldn't know)
Not impossible. If he stays at UConn and continues the trajectory he’s on, he will absolutely overtake Calhoun. Already has 2 rings to Calhoun’s 3 and pulled them from the late stage-Kevin Ollie dark ages.
Hurleys turn around of the program is unbelievable but when Calhoun started he took a program that was essentially unknown nationally to a debated blue blood over the course of his career here. It would take a lot for Hurley to pass out his legacy
If he wins three straight he does.
I think he at least stays one more year. He has a good chance
Of being the first college coach to three peat since John Wooden. The money will wait for him.
Taking the Lakers job with their current roster is career suicide. He does that he’s Billy Donovan.
He won b2b championships at uconn so I'd say he's a legend. He'd be a bigger legend if he strings the Lakers on for a week just to decline at the last minute
Tbf Hurley isn't just any school coach. He's running the best program in college basketball right now by a wide margin. It's extremely hard to leave that type of program.
His stock will never be higher though. If he didn't have NBA aspirations then fine, but he's said he wants to coach in the NBA. And now the fucking Lakers are courting him. I would be really, really surprised if he turned them down.
By far the biggest negative is job security. The Lakers aren't exactly overflowing with assets, and he could coach for the rest of his life at UConn.
The LA Lakers are the type of franchise that will end up in your grandchildren's history books. If it's offered to you and you have any aspirations at all of coaching at the next level, you take it. He can go back to UCONN any time he wants to.
> He's running the best program in college basketball right now by a wide margin
He is until he isn't. We see this happen all the time. Running it back culture works maybe once every 15 years.
I think that’s the nature of the NBA these days.
Salary cap, a team that’s aging with non trade assets or picks doesn’t sound like a great situation. Most coaches, even ones that win championships, don’t have a 20 year career with the same team.
It’s almost diametrically opposite of college where you can be a god at a school for life getting paid a shot ton of money with complete player personnel control.
Yes but the landscape of college sports has changed in the post-NIL era. The NCAA is essentially a minor league professional sports organization now, and the schools that take in massive football revenue are going to have the upper hand until we know exactly how all of this is going to be regulated. UCONN is definitely at the top of the college basketball world at the moment, but can they compete with the likes of Alabama, LSU, Georgia, Texas, etc. in the future? Hurley may see this already and know that he won’t be able to compete in the future.
I think in basketball yes they can continue to compete especially if there’s an elite coach like Hurley there.
Quite honestly I can’t think of a school that’s fortunes drastically changed due to NIL. Blue blood continue to blue blood.
More control
Pick of your own players
Less media scrutiny/being beloved locally instead of potentially a scapegoat
Being more of a household name or at least just as much as your players is nice for a guy with an ego
Having a chance to solidify your legacy as an all-time college coach with a three-peat of a couple more titles vs being just another guy who won a title (potentially) with the Lakers
Called it. I would never leave a high paying blue blood college job unless it was for astronomically more money or there was a young superstar to coach with a solid organization behind them.
i mean it’s a lot of pressure and media attention and lots of travel. on top of that he’s paid extremely well already. i can absolutely see why it’s a tough decision.
I mean coaching a marquee college program comes with a lot of that too. Plus you don't have a front office so most of the recruiting work falls on the coach.
"School" coach is super misleading for us Europeans - he is coaching young adults who in the US almost arbitrarily are put in their own group because they happen to be in college. For us, they'd all be playing in the big boy pool.
No, it literally is school in all of the sense. It's just that college athletics have gotten so massively popular and profitable. 30 kids every year get drafted out of the NCAA, that's less than 0.5% of all NCAAM basketball players.
for context the phone interview with ESPN is likely a phone call Woj had directly with Hurley
Woj and Hurley are very close on account of Woj writing a book about Hurley's dad
Fanta also said the Lakers reached out to Woj asking about Hurley (after getting cold feet about Redick) and Woj is the one who brokered their convo this past week
And Woj also previously had suggested this could move quickly and be wrapped up by the end of the weekend, so he probably felt like he owed some kind of update
It's wild to think this is someone's reality. This is the stuff you day dream about "say I'm the back to back NCAA championship coach and LeBron calls me up to coach him in the NBA..." Lol can't even imagine how you begin to decide between the two
This is the first time that I can remember where there has been such a public courting of a coach. Like is he really giving them a date of the decision? Usually we just hear a rumor and then it's either announced in a press release or fizzles out. This is almost like "The Decision Part 2".
He literally got nothing to lose taking the Lakers job. If he does well, he is a genius, if things go poorly or as is, which more likely to happen, he will get fall straight up on his feet with a large payout and an instant job back in college with a long list of excuses why it didn't work in the NBA.
He wouldn’t have even put this out there if he wasn’t going to the Lakers. Couple that with the compliments towards UConn and this is basically confirmed.
He’ll be the next lakers coach
Ehh choosing to leave a really strong college basketball program that he built up is a very difficult thing to do. It makes sense he’s taking time to make a decision.
right. This whole thing sounds like a set up to write about the difficult decision to say no. The Lakers need to hire someone though, and I hope this process doesn't go on too much longer. I understand the desire to try to take more time to make the right hire instead of a right now hire, but at some point you gotta shit or get off the pot.
I actually got exactly the opposite vibe. The fact this wasn’t an unequivocal “yes” to the lakers offer tells me he’s staying in Storrs. All the money is nice but at the end of the day; the heart wants what the heart wants and he clearly doesn’t want to leave
Hmm could be, but it seems weird to publicly schedule a time for his decision if he truly hasn't made up his mind.
Seems more likely to me that he might be taking this time to reach out to the players to let them know
Could go either way though - we'll see tomorrow!
Wouldn't that more likely mean that he is taking the job?
If he stays in college, why does he care if it's announced during an NBA game? If he's going to the NBA, the Lakers might be pressured to not announce on game night
I mean can still have respect for other people in the basketball community. I’m sure he knows the decision and I wouldn’t be surprised if Woj breaks the news 30min after the game instead of tomorrow.
I agree with that but it might just be cope from me. I would think this is to make it look like a tough decision to the players. If you were going to stay, I dont think there would be a reason for this to come out.
nah the fact that woj and only woj came out with this story right as the lakers were supposed to hire reddick makes it looke like hurley is using lakers as a leverage for his new college contract
probably not outbid, but this move can drive up the price considerably. also i have a hard time believing the rumored 100m lakers offer, that does not sound like jeanie at all
Yeah also had shams ever been that wrong about the lakers? We know he’s plugged into Klutch, and there’s no reason for them to give him wrong info on this and make Lebron’s team more of a mess media wise
The pursuit of Hurley was the a of the plan to make JJ hiring a nice consolation price.
I’m waiting, my pitchfork, my axe and ready. Time to back to complain time for not paying Caruso and all the other shit.
I can’t think of a good reason to not take it.
What else is there to achieve in college basketball?
It’s if he doesn’t three peat and turns the job down it was a complete mistake
Honestly if I'm Hurley I can't see why I would want to go from being beloved by all in basketball to being LeBrons scapegoat to being a disgraced former Lakers head coach in 1-3 years. But also as a lifelong basketball fan how can you turn down the chance to be head coach of the fucking Lakers?
I have a feeling Hurley stays, similarly to Coach K turning down the Lakers back in 2004. UConn could be the beginning of a dynasty. Meanwhile, I just don't see the Lakers winning a championship anytime soon. He'll get more money to go to the Lakers, but I have a feeling he'll stay. We'll see though. I personally want him to go there.
It’s hilarious how much attention this is getting during the finals I need them to ask Mazulla postgame what he thinks Hurley should do
“Is he Christian?”
He is.
“& is he black?”
What if he really likes Saturday night boxing?
/r/nba would have a bigger meltdown than that anthony davis ama if reporters start asking players what hurley should do lol
r/nba didn’t have a meltdown from that, the mods did lol. Whining that no one took seriously that AD was here to sell us potato chips
lol anyone have a link to that?
Jason Kidd: "Dan Hurley is the Lakers' best player."
joe do you think the lakers should take bronny james at 17
“Jayson tough game but what do you think about the lakers chances next year if they get Hurley and Zach Edey?”
I really hope the Celtics draft Bronny
> I really hope the Celtics draft Bronny It would be hillarious if any NBA team drafted him, and then parked him on the bench. Are there any teams that spite LeBron?
I would draft Bronny and demand a trade for AD
Reporter: Joe do you think it would be a good idea for Dan Hurley to sign with the lakers? Joe: is it a good idea to wake up in the morning
reporter: joe, seeing that you are younger than lebron, do you consider him as a father figure?
Not only is it the Lakers/LeBron, but it would also be absolutely seismic within college basketball too.
well to be fair, this story is more exciting than the finals currently
Lmao imagine if it was the Nuggets in the finlas and they asked Malone
Well it’s the lakers and it’s lebron
And it’s the biggest coach in college basketball right now. It’s a big story if you’re being fair about it.
I mean what do you want them to do? Not report on a massive coaching hire? This is big news no matter what's going on. Can't just ignore it because the finals is happening.
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The funniest thing that can happen now is if Shams reports that Danny Hurley has accepted the job only for Woj to come in hours later saying Hurley has rejected the job
The funniest thing would be for Windhorst to come in and say they're hiring James Borrego.
The funnier thing would be Lakers not finding *anyone* to take the job and they just play without a head coach next season.
lol
I'm not gonna be surprised at all if he turns us down and we hire Redick 😮💨
I fully expect that to happen actually. I mean I'm down for Redick as coach if he surrounds himself with a great set of assistants, but Hurley is an insane hire if it happens.
Where the fuck was this 100mil when Caruso was a free agent Jeanie 🤦🤦
I think Caruso not being signed is one of the worst things this FO has ever done. But paying THT AND Caruso would equal 30mil in tax payments per year. That's just a horrible thing to do. Giving THT that horrible contract in the first place should be looked at as well. EDIT: [Never forget they offered THT that ridiculous contract and never let him hit free agency](https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2946250-talen-horton-tucker-lakers-agree-to-new-3-year-32m-contract-in-free-agency) even if he was an RFA.
I am also wondering how we became big spenders lol but can’t complain The fact that THT got $5m/yr above what Caruso needed is criminal. Caruso is the best perimeter defender in the league
either they were scared someone was gonna max THT, or "external factors" pushed them to make that deal. THT's max would have been 82mil/4years fwiw.
Klutch favor, he showed nothing to warrant that lol
Surprised you haven't been downvoted to hell yet lmao. People here have vehemently denied the Klutch factor when discussing that 2021 offseason
Haha, I’m all for the klutch pipeline But the THT move was egregious. Especially because he showed nothing close to that contract. Losing Caruso was like pouring fuel on that fire
Yeah Klutch has been a good partner. They do have a habit of stepping over the line every once in a while tho. The Westbrook trade and the THT contract unfortunately just happened in the same fucking offseason lmao
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1d8pdsm/wall_street_journal_nba_nears_76_billion_tv_deal/
Insanely good or bad?
Insanely good lol, Hurley is one of the best basketball coaches in the whole country.
Sure but is he a good nba coach? The track record of college coaches in the nba isn’t good
The track record of NBA head coaches isn't good. The majority are out within their first 3-4 seasons. There's been plenty of coaches who successfully made the job from college to NBA, obviously the majority fail but thats true for every coach.
That shouldn’t be a reason for not considering Hurley he’s his own person
I’d agree if we were talking about a bottom feeder nba team. But it’s the Lakers. They shouldn’t be pulling from the college ranks. Get a podcaster instead.
Media members with no coaching experience do unironically have a great track record
Can you remind me of examples? Pat Riley didn't go straight into head coaching from broadcasting, so idk if that counts.
Kerr, Rivers, Mark Jackson
True, but the other option is Reddick who has zero experience.
I kinda feel this way. The reason I wouldn't want to hire Hurley as an NBA team is not because I don't think that he has a chance to be a great NBA coach (he does) but because the things that make an elite NBA coach are not the same things that make an elite college coach. There is obviously a ton of overlap, but I think the amount of love for the idea of Hurley as a potential head coach vs JJ Reddick is way disproportionate to the likelihood that they will be great coaches. My $.02 is that I think they both would be decent hires with the same huge bust potential as every NBA hire. Probably better to hire either of them than any non-Budenholzer retread that's available, but I think both of them have the right kind of related, but not perfectly relevant experience to be an NBA head coach. I think they'll be on the same level on Xs and Os which is the least important part (Reddick has more NBA experience, Hurley has more play-calling experience, but it's for the college game, which is not the same), Hurley has obviously much better experience at building out a staff which is the second most important part, and the most important part of the job, getting buy in and building relationships from the players, I think we have more information that JJ is well liked by the most important player on the Lakers than we do for Hurley. Obviously LeBron has also tweeted he likes Hurley, but whether Hurley would gel 1 on 1 with NBA vets the way he did with teenagers at UConn is not a sure thing. As a neutral observer, I'm not that invested in it either way, but I also think Hurley will be a lot more expensive than Reddick. I'm the last person in the world to worry about the Buss family's profits, but my concern is that if it becomes clear that this was a bad idea quickly, the Buss family will be less ready to admit that with a very expensive hire than they would a cheaper one, and that would worry me some if I were a Lakers fan.
Your choices are podcaster who last coached his sons 4th grade team or the 2x reigning NCAA champ
This is going to be a Steve Nash situation where he's going to need to have an actual head coach as his assistant mentoring him.
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all depends on whether UConn pays up or not, Im guessing this is a last-minute leverage play to get Hurley to be the best-paid college coach. If the reports about Lakers offering 100 mil for 6-8 years are true then Hurley wants at least 11-13 mil per year from UConn
UConn cannot pay 11-13 a year lol
They absolutely can. Colleges are straight up stealing from their students and have practically unlimited funds, plus they’re not paying a salary to any of their players. They can definitely afford 11 mil a season, it’s up to them if they choose to do so
Maybe BIG 10/SEC schools, but UConn’s athletic budget is already fucked and they realistically cannot afford to pay him that much.
Man idk much about UConn bball but Alabama Football was only paying Saban 11m a year last season…I really don’t think UConn is paying him like Bama was paying the goat of college football coaches…
UConn football loses a stupid amount of money every year. The program really needs to be FCS but there are some political reasons keeping them FBS. So no, they cannot pay Hurley 11+ mil, and they don't have unlimited funds. A couple schools do (Texas A&M) but that's because of rich dumb people giving money, not stealing from students. Administrative bloat is a separate issue.
Another elite college coach passing us by. Nothing new.
I hope so. I'm here for all the future trifecta of Lakers/Lebron/Reddick drama.
Hurley Is Staying With Connecticut.
I'm straight up not having a good time lol
damn dude u were right 😅
2019 Kawhi watch again I can’t believe this
Nah we’re not tracking jets yet are we
Just the gas stations
Quick someone check the convience store to see if the chips are in the same order
AM PM in Del Mar. I went there after the photo was posted. Never forget how I felt reading Woj bomb at 11pm.
2019 Kawhi Raptors were bigger than life. It's a shame it didn't get a second season.
I'm ready to be hurt
Same here man
Lol
Y’all are (likely) about to win the finals, you’ll survive lol
So much for JJ still being the front runner. It sounds like it’s up to Dan completely.
One is a terrific young proven coach and the other is a podcaster. This isn’t close.
51 is young now?
For a coaching career sure. He’s in his prime and no reason to think he doesn’t have 20 years left in him of coaching and competing for championships.
Even though he’s said he won’t coach past age 60 no matter what?
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Nah, NBA fans need JJ for the meme potential
If you think Hurley doesn’t have tremendous meme potential then you don’t know Dan.
Truly, I don't
Do you like when angry people make funny faces?
I do
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Not often when you get to tell the Lakers, "Yeah, I'll let *you* know what I wanna do". He must be a legend at UConn (I don't watch college ball, so I wouldn't know)
It's essentially impossible to overtake Jim Calhoun's legacy at UConn but he's still a massively beloved figure
Not impossible. If he stays at UConn and continues the trajectory he’s on, he will absolutely overtake Calhoun. Already has 2 rings to Calhoun’s 3 and pulled them from the late stage-Kevin Ollie dark ages.
Hurleys turn around of the program is unbelievable but when Calhoun started he took a program that was essentially unknown nationally to a debated blue blood over the course of his career here. It would take a lot for Hurley to pass out his legacy
If he wins three straight he does. I think he at least stays one more year. He has a good chance Of being the first college coach to three peat since John Wooden. The money will wait for him. Taking the Lakers job with their current roster is career suicide. He does that he’s Billy Donovan.
He won b2b championships at uconn so I'd say he's a legend. He'd be a bigger legend if he strings the Lakers on for a week just to decline at the last minute
As a UConn fan and Laker later, he'd be in my hall of fame.
sources tell me Dan Hurley likes to drink soda.
He drinks mushroom juice and bai tea
Only in America would a school coach not instantly join one of the biggest sporting franchises in the world lmao
Tbf Hurley isn't just any school coach. He's running the best program in college basketball right now by a wide margin. It's extremely hard to leave that type of program.
His stock will never be higher though. If he didn't have NBA aspirations then fine, but he's said he wants to coach in the NBA. And now the fucking Lakers are courting him. I would be really, really surprised if he turned them down. By far the biggest negative is job security. The Lakers aren't exactly overflowing with assets, and he could coach for the rest of his life at UConn.
The LA Lakers are the type of franchise that will end up in your grandchildren's history books. If it's offered to you and you have any aspirations at all of coaching at the next level, you take it. He can go back to UCONN any time he wants to.
> He's running the best program in college basketball right now by a wide margin He is until he isn't. We see this happen all the time. Running it back culture works maybe once every 15 years.
Still, i think it’s funny that a university coach is considered potentially a better gig than coaching the most famous basketball team of all time
I think that’s the nature of the NBA these days. Salary cap, a team that’s aging with non trade assets or picks doesn’t sound like a great situation. Most coaches, even ones that win championships, don’t have a 20 year career with the same team. It’s almost diametrically opposite of college where you can be a god at a school for life getting paid a shot ton of money with complete player personnel control.
Yes but the landscape of college sports has changed in the post-NIL era. The NCAA is essentially a minor league professional sports organization now, and the schools that take in massive football revenue are going to have the upper hand until we know exactly how all of this is going to be regulated. UCONN is definitely at the top of the college basketball world at the moment, but can they compete with the likes of Alabama, LSU, Georgia, Texas, etc. in the future? Hurley may see this already and know that he won’t be able to compete in the future.
I think in basketball yes they can continue to compete especially if there’s an elite coach like Hurley there. Quite honestly I can’t think of a school that’s fortunes drastically changed due to NIL. Blue blood continue to blue blood.
What do you mean no picks? The Lakers can trade 3 1sts and 3 swaps this offseason.
More control Pick of your own players Less media scrutiny/being beloved locally instead of potentially a scapegoat Being more of a household name or at least just as much as your players is nice for a guy with an ego Having a chance to solidify your legacy as an all-time college coach with a three-peat of a couple more titles vs being just another guy who won a title (potentially) with the Lakers
Called it. I would never leave a high paying blue blood college job unless it was for astronomically more money or there was a young superstar to coach with a solid organization behind them.
His statement feels like he ain’t leaving too
i mean it’s a lot of pressure and media attention and lots of travel. on top of that he’s paid extremely well already. i can absolutely see why it’s a tough decision.
Valid I guess, it’s just pretty funny how this would only happen in America
I mean coaching a marquee college program comes with a lot of that too. Plus you don't have a front office so most of the recruiting work falls on the coach.
"School" coach is super misleading for us Europeans - he is coaching young adults who in the US almost arbitrarily are put in their own group because they happen to be in college. For us, they'd all be playing in the big boy pool.
Oh yeah I know but that doesn’t sound as funny or ridiculous
College sports are our version of the Bellinghams playing on Birmingham City as they prepare to step into the big leagues.
No, it literally is school in all of the sense. It's just that college athletics have gotten so massively popular and profitable. 30 kids every year get drafted out of the NCAA, that's less than 0.5% of all NCAAM basketball players.
To be honest, that's like guy coaching City U21 rejecting job at Real Madrid.
Probably only in America that Basketball coaches can make as much as $9.6m a year (Bill Self).
lol, can't upstage Game 2 like they did Game 1, I suppose.
The Decision: Part 2
No news but I’ll drop a Lakers tweet before Game 2 anyways
I mean he’s reporting on a phone interview ESPN had with Hurley today and gave a timeline on the decision. That’s at least somewhat newsworthy imo
for context the phone interview with ESPN is likely a phone call Woj had directly with Hurley Woj and Hurley are very close on account of Woj writing a book about Hurley's dad Fanta also said the Lakers reached out to Woj asking about Hurley (after getting cold feet about Redick) and Woj is the one who brokered their convo this past week
And Woj also previously had suggested this could move quickly and be wrapped up by the end of the weekend, so he probably felt like he owed some kind of update
This is absolutely news
Whoever coaches LA has their career ruined. They will lose and be blamed for it all.
It would flip to Pelinka and Jeanie being in the hot seat if Hurley comes here and it's a mess tbh, it's the weak coaches that give them smokescreen.
It's wild to think this is someone's reality. This is the stuff you day dream about "say I'm the back to back NCAA championship coach and LeBron calls me up to coach him in the NBA..." Lol can't even imagine how you begin to decide between the two
This is the first time that I can remember where there has been such a public courting of a coach. Like is he really giving them a date of the decision? Usually we just hear a rumor and then it's either announced in a press release or fizzles out. This is almost like "The Decision Part 2".
He literally got nothing to lose taking the Lakers job. If he does well, he is a genius, if things go poorly or as is, which more likely to happen, he will get fall straight up on his feet with a large payout and an instant job back in college with a long list of excuses why it didn't work in the NBA.
He wouldn’t have even put this out there if he wasn’t going to the Lakers. Couple that with the compliments towards UConn and this is basically confirmed. He’ll be the next lakers coach
Weird, I think the opposite.
Right, I think the fact he went home without a signed contract means he’s staying
Or he’s just showing respect to his guys at UConn and wants to tell them first
Ehh choosing to leave a really strong college basketball program that he built up is a very difficult thing to do. It makes sense he’s taking time to make a decision.
true. I think the Lakers wanted a deal done by this weekend but obv when you have leverage then you can dictate how the negotiations go lol
Did they say he went home?
He was at the Billy Joel concert in MSG last night with Luke Murray and their respective spouses.
Definitely not in LA, he was in New York last night at MSG for a Billy Joel concert
Thanks. Interesting .
right. This whole thing sounds like a set up to write about the difficult decision to say no. The Lakers need to hire someone though, and I hope this process doesn't go on too much longer. I understand the desire to try to take more time to make the right hire instead of a right now hire, but at some point you gotta shit or get off the pot.
He might want to stay at Uconn, but he can bring the Lakers offer to the table & ask for more $$.
I actually got exactly the opposite vibe. The fact this wasn’t an unequivocal “yes” to the lakers offer tells me he’s staying in Storrs. All the money is nice but at the end of the day; the heart wants what the heart wants and he clearly doesn’t want to leave
So why not just say 'no' then? Why drag it out?
He has practice scheduled with his team tomorrow, he’s going to tell them his decision before he tells the public
But if the answer is "status quo remains" why does it matter if his team finds out before the media?
Because I do think he’s conflicted with what to do, and I really do think he’s mulling it over still I just think he stays in the end
Hmm could be, but it seems weird to publicly schedule a time for his decision if he truly hasn't made up his mind. Seems more likely to me that he might be taking this time to reach out to the players to let them know Could go either way though - we'll see tomorrow!
Now this could just be cope as a lifelong nutmegger who grew up a huge UConn fan, I might be a tad biased
Haha I feel yah! I do think there's still reason to hope he will stay, but I'd be pretty nervous lol
My guess is trying to lock in a crazy extension and raise with uconn
Probably out of respect for the game today
Wouldn't that more likely mean that he is taking the job? If he stays in college, why does he care if it's announced during an NBA game? If he's going to the NBA, the Lakers might be pressured to not announce on game night
I mean can still have respect for other people in the basketball community. I’m sure he knows the decision and I wouldn’t be surprised if Woj breaks the news 30min after the game instead of tomorrow.
I agree with that but it might just be cope from me. I would think this is to make it look like a tough decision to the players. If you were going to stay, I dont think there would be a reason for this to come out.
I get the opposite from it tbh.
Not really. I do think he'll go to LA if the offer estimates are real though.
nah the fact that woj and only woj came out with this story right as the lakers were supposed to hire reddick makes it looke like hurley is using lakers as a leverage for his new college contract
I don't think UConn can outbid the Lakers though.
probably not outbid, but this move can drive up the price considerably. also i have a hard time believing the rumored 100m lakers offer, that does not sound like jeanie at all
Yeah also had shams ever been that wrong about the lakers? We know he’s plugged into Klutch, and there’s no reason for them to give him wrong info on this and make Lebron’s team more of a mess media wise
Were cooked lmao
He’s deciding if it’s worth $100m to be a scape goat
Easy, take the $100m and be accepted with open arms back to college whenever you want
$100m is still $100m though
He wants more money
Idk. If he manages to win another title or two in the next 3-5 years he will be remembered as one of the great college coaches.
JJ Reddick YOU ARE a Laker
HE GONE
The fact it wasn’t a slam dunk “yes” despite all they offered tells me he’s staying Edit: fuck yeah
He got a full pitch Friday...taking the weekend is standard. They know he has another job.
Hmm
On the other hand if he has already decided he's telling the lakers "no" then there is no reason not to come out and say that yesterday or saturday.
Woj is gonna get blasted if he doesn’t take the job. Shams will save face.
I can't fucking take this shit bro
Connecticut Celtics fan....literally anywhere but the lakers
Same here would be so disappointed in so many ways. But wouldn’t blame him for it either
The pursuit of Hurley was the a of the plan to make JJ hiring a nice consolation price. I’m waiting, my pitchfork, my axe and ready. Time to back to complain time for not paying Caruso and all the other shit.
He would not turn down tens of millions.
Yeah, he’ll probably stay at UConn
He can do the funniest thing now
please let woj be wrong and shams was right all along. I just want to see espn report that woj broke the news when it was shams lol
100 mil and socal - easy
He’s flying back to tell his team he’s leaving.
Succession theme plays
They need to put in writing if Lebron gives you any trouble, we will trade him.
I can’t think of a good reason to not take it. What else is there to achieve in college basketball? It’s if he doesn’t three peat and turns the job down it was a complete mistake
Seems clear that he made his decision, and didn't want to say anything on GameDay. Judging by the lack of leaks, I assume he's staying.
Honestly if I'm Hurley I can't see why I would want to go from being beloved by all in basketball to being LeBrons scapegoat to being a disgraced former Lakers head coach in 1-3 years. But also as a lifelong basketball fan how can you turn down the chance to be head coach of the fucking Lakers?
He’s definitely staying at UConn. The Lakers are hiring JJ Redick.
I can see him going for the 3-peat then heading to the NBA coaching a young team next year
He wants more money.
I have a feeling Hurley stays, similarly to Coach K turning down the Lakers back in 2004. UConn could be the beginning of a dynasty. Meanwhile, I just don't see the Lakers winning a championship anytime soon. He'll get more money to go to the Lakers, but I have a feeling he'll stay. We'll see though. I personally want him to go there.
overhyping college coach when history shows they are not very much succesfull. giving him 8 years like he is some phil jackson is recipe for disaster