UConn Huskies men’s basketball mentor Dan Hurley has turned down an offer you to come to be the head mentor of the Los Angeles Lakers, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski studies.
The Lakers provided Hurley a 6-calendar year deal with $70 million, which would have designed him just one of the six optimum-compensated coaches in the NBA, in accordance to Wojnarowksi. Connecticut governor Ned Lamont mentioned at a community visual appearance right before news of Hurley’s final decision broke that “We’ll make absolutely sure he’s the leading paid out school mentor,” in accordance to David Borges of CT Insider. Hurley’s existing deal is a 6-year offer really worth $32.1 million that he signed practically just a calendar year back.
Wojnarowski very first documented the Lakers’ interest in choosing the back again-to-again countrywide championship coach on Friday. Los Angeles is looking for to substitute Darvin Ham, who was fired final thirty day period following the workforce was bounced from the playoffs in the first spherical.
Hurley is a lifelong East Coastline resident, owning grown up in New Jersey as the son of famous substantial college basketball mentor Bob Hurley. He performed university basketball at Seton Hall and first rose to prominence as a mentor at St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark, N.J. His first college coaching position was with the Wagner Seahawks on Staten Island, in which he invested two seasons just before earning the jump to the Rhode Island Rams. He was hired by UConn in 2018 and has led the Huskies to four straight NCAA tournament appearances, such as again-to-again championships.
Previous NBA participant and present ESPN analyst JJ Redick has been connected to the Lakers career, whilst the two sides have nonetheless to examine a contract or even maintain a formal interview. James Borrego, the previous Charlotte Hornets head coach and current New Orleans Pelicans assistant, is also reportedly a prospect for the task.
Returning to UConn will let Hurley to chase an ultra-unusual a few-peat. Though the Huskies’ women’s program received 4 titles in a row from 2013 to ’16, the only men’s program to earn additional than two consecutive championships was the UCLA Bruins dynasty under coach John Wooden, who gained seven straight titles from 1967 to ’73.
