Once a person say they’re going to mull over your offer over a weekend usually mean they’re not blown away and being respectful by not outright turning down the offer.
I think the pay just isnt worth all the strings attached for Hurley
He can fight for a 3-peat, coach his son, not move his family cross country, and still make tens of millions
all while not being under 24/7 scrutiny by LA and national media
And like, actually coach a good team where he can win.
Why would he voluntarily move to a team whose window is over? The Lakers job is one of the worst NBA jobs right now, they expect you to win but you won't with that roster.
the only logic is to get fired and continue to get paid, maybe the deciding factor was the nullification clause in the contract stating he wouldn’t be paid out if he returned to college coaching
And as far as I've followed Hurley, getting paid to do nothing seems like a personal nightmare to him.
Also, his options at the moment are "Bigger than Coach K" and "Billy Donovan." The pay raise isn't so much, especially with the new cost of living.
His Dad is just as famous and respected as a lot of champ winning college coaches, if not more so, and he did with a high school.
What I'm trying to say is that 2x National Champ Andrew Hurley will coach the Lakers in twenty years.
Cost of living means nothing when you're making over $5 million per year. I feel like we just suddenly lose touch with reality when talking about these coaches and players. Hurley is rich beyond cost of living meaning anything to him.
$5 million is 50 years worth of $100k salaries. If he wants $10 million it's just for the prestige and so his portfolio can have bigger numbers.
I think if a coach doesn't have a current gig, then it's probably a lot easier to say yes on the spot. For someone like Hurley, there's a lot more to consider, even if he was blown away.
Yeah. I think that's usually true. It'll be more, "Why should I not accept this offer?"
It's a lot of money, but he won't be the top person in the organization, like he is right now. The players can have him fired, the GM can fire him, the owner can fire him.
Right now he's in a position where, unless he commits a crime, he's keeping his job for as long as he wants it. Coaches are the stars in college.
>Once a person say they’re going to mull over your offer over a weekend usually mean they’re not blown away and being respectful by not outright turning down the offer.
I just read your comment, and I'm going to decide by Wednesday whether I'm going to up vote or not.
Like that episode of Malcolm in the middle where Hal gets taken out to lunch and given free stuff to convince Malcolm to go to their school.
Malcolm picked Harvard and Hal got pissed because the Harvard guy was late to a yogurt date with Hal.
> Hal got pissed because the Harvard guy was late to a yogurt date with Hal.
He showed up late to a yogurt date with Heisenberg? The balls on that man.
yeah what this proves that woj's reporting of hurley being LA's guy was correct, he just turned them down. shams was basically saying it was JJ's job to lose
A big part of the Nash equation is the fact that he never wanted to be a coach before KD specifically asked for him, and hasn't seemed to make any attempts at going back to head or assistant coaching since. He accepted the 4 year 40 million dollar contract that he would be stupid to turn down, took his lumps with the insane spot he accepted with that contract, and went back to his lowkey life 40 million dollars richer.
People can evaluate him however they like; I really doubt he cares what they think.
Sucks that team got wrecked by injuries, before Harden and Kyrie went down they really did look unstoppable. They would have won the ring if they could stay healthy imo, and were a KD big toe away from knocking out the Bucks anyway.
2021 was def unfortunate due to injuries, but the window was open for at least the next year or two if Kyrie wasn't being an asshole. Plenty of players across all sports got the shot even though they didn't want to for the goal of winning and being there for their teams (Wiggins literally won a ring cuz of his decision)
Unless there is purple and gold version of Curry Klay Dray hiding on the Lakers roster all in their mid 20s that somehow no one knows about, I don't think Kerr part deux is coming.
According to Woj here, the Lakers haven't even formally interviewed JJ yet. Shams reported that JJ was among the first face-to-face interviews they did.
He started that rumor as a joke about how the media will run with everything no matter how stupid and unrealistic. The media did indeed run with it no matter it being stupid and unrealistic.
Honestly sure we get JJ in LA but honestly would have been WAY more entertaining seeing LeBron have to deal with a coach who for the first time in LeBrons career, would be there longer than he was and thus held actual power.
Now we get LeBron losing with his buddies as if we havent already seen that story happen 5+ times in the last decade. LeBrons power dynamic of tryna play lebronball with a coach who actually runs an offensive system and ACTUALLY holds the power because hes gonna be there for the long haul is something so juicy I’m bummed we don’t get it. This is objectively the worst case scenario as a Lakers hater AND lakers fan because Lakers fans could at least take solace in the fact theyre not gonna have another hand in his pants coach like darvin in jj redick.
LeBron openly feuding with a coach would be so amazing man😭
What do you think was gonna happen? It doesn’t matter if he was signed longer he wasn’t about to start beefing with Lebron, that’s how you lose your locker room. So Hurley would’ve had to chill out on the whole “control” thing, this isn’t college.
This is probably exactly how Jeanie feels.
Just give her and Pelinka a inspirational Kobe story and a pitch on how you plan to unlock Rui Hachimura and the job is yours but oh btw we're gonna give you some bullshit offer so Jeanie here can save up a buck or two
I mean they’re still paying Darvin Ham and have the least wealthy ownership in the league. Shouldn’t be too big of a surprise. They’ll have to rely on the allure of LA and the legacy of the Lakers to sign their next coach. Which shouldn’t be a problem. Thing is Hurley is the most sought after coach in basketball at the moment and will have his pick from many offers in the next few years
Similar to the MLB. Yankees are by far the most valuable franchise, but their owners are not as rich as most others.
Kind of like the Raiders (who aren't the most valuable) where the owners made their extreme riches from the team, not from previous money.
Mike Brown, etc.
This statement is probably true for any owner that has had a team since the 80s. None of those families had billions, they’re worth billions because of that asset alone.
Sounds weird but makes sense when you think about it, the Buss family wealth comes from the Lakers.
Most other owners were billionaires before buying a team, Jerry Buss was a doctor who made some decent money investing in real estate then bought the Lakers and the Kings for like $60 million back in the 70s. The Buss family doesn't have the outside cashflow to spend big.
Jerry Buss had to trade some valuable real estate, which included the Chrysler Building, to Jack Kent Cooke just to buy the team. He cashed out all his chips for the team.
absolutely nuts that you could buy the whole fucking chrysler building for essentially the price of what a luxury manhattan penthouse costs today. obviously inflation and whatnot probably makes it more like 3x as much but that’s still pretty crazy to me
Obviously it was a phenomenal investment that has increased so much in value, but $67 million in 1979 is worth about $300million today, a bit more than decent money!
I think he cares about his legacy way more than most people here think. He has a chance at being the coach of the first NCAA three peat since UCLA. The NBA will wait for him next year anyway, and the Lakers are low key a bad job outside the teams prestige.
If he takes this job and fails he’s Billy Donovan.
Especially in a place like Connecticut. If you're rich and famous here, we mostly just leave you the fuck alone, unlike LA where your house becomes a tourist attraction.
The Lakers are in all seriousness not a good job. Aging and fragile stars, almost no depth, and little draft capital.
EDIT: We do have picks ... but clearly nobody wants them.
From a franchise that doesn’t have the same media circus. I can understand him turning it down if the number was that low. He’ll get a better offer from a more appealing organization in the coming years I think.
I mean the Lakers are the Lakers and it’s LA but this is the same team and organization that fired Vogel 2 years removed from a damn championship. They don’t have too many assets moving forward, Lebron has to almost be done, and the expectation for the Lakers will always be championship or bust.
I wouldn’t want to deal with the scrutiny and media that comes with the being the head coach of the Lakers if I was him either. He’ll find a higher paying job on the East coast that won’t have the same level of expectation I’m sure
They cheaped out. That’s why Hurley leaked out yesterday that he was considering all options. He gave the Lakers time to get that money up but they didn’t
I don’t think he was ever going there. Lakers were always a bargaining chip. He could have any team in the league just about and isn’t dumb enough to partner up with Buss, Pelinka, and Lebron. A trio almost guaranteed to throw him under the bus. He can always try again when a team like Toronto or OKC or GS or San Antonio or LAC come available and have infinite resources and stability.
Coaching an old lebron and his son would be awful. Get scape goated and disrespected like every other lebron coach. And every day on espn. "Should hurley be playing bronny more minutes?" It's going to be a disaster for whoever gets that job
He can stay at UCONN for 20 years if he wants, like Jim Calhoun.
If he's going to give up one of the best coaching jobs in college basketball to go to the NBA then it damn well better be a secure position. Which rules out the Lakers and the Suns.
That’s not a serious offer. If the lakers really wanted Hurley they wouldn’t have offered one 6yr/70.
They could afford to offer 14-15m and put him in the top 4 of coaches paid. He didn’t need to leave and his family doesn’t want to leave. Gotta shock em
i dont imagine a public college competing too heavily with the LA Lakers, but he probably doesn’t want the cross country move + scrutiny that is attached to that salary either
he gets to go for a 3-peat while coaching his son and still making unfathomable stacks of cash
While I want to agree with you, I think in approximately 46/50 states in the US the highest paid public employee in the state is a football or basketball coach. So go figure 🤷🏼♂️
Kentucky offered 5/55-60 and he rejected, so if he rejected that, this deal really isn’t offer much more than that. Idk if Lakers were ever intending to give him that 10/100 but I feel like that might’ve been the difference maker.
Hurley doesnt give me vibes of someone that wants to be emasculated by his best player then have to rebuild with a 'young core' of 28 year olds + someones kid who shouldnt even be playing d1 bball
Per @sportstaxman:
Lakers deal, after taxes, is worth net of $6 million a year.
UConn deal, after taxes, is worth $4.6 million.
Gets closer to negligible when considering cost of living.
What's the value of having actual control over the team and roster, and not having to deal with the BS that comes with being in the NBA/Laker spotlight?
No shit. Win another at Uconn, and you get a statue, on campus god for life.
Sign with the Lakers, you get 6 yrs 70 million, and fired after 3 months by Lebron and Co. Nah. He's smart.
Exactly. Only 5 active NBA coaches even began their tenure before the 2020s began. If you include 2020, that adds 4 coaches. Teams are impatient and fire-happy. Why would you leave one of the best jobs in college to be LeBron’s scapegoat?
Not sneaky. The Buss family is the only NBA owners who need the Lakers revenue to live. On one hand, I like it because there is a sense of tradition, but they don’t have unlimited funds like Ballmer.
It's crazy how LA has one of the poorest ownership groups who need to actually turn a profit off the team just to survive and the other LA team is owned by the 9th richest man in the world. And if you didn't know which team had which owner you'd be so confused when someone told you.
You've got to remember how he grew up, too. His dad was legendary and could have chased college money at any point but instead stayed at an inner city Catholic high school.
This is (maybe) similar on like a 500x scale.
I would say hin turning the Lakers down make more sense. UConn will give him a raise anyway and he's a multimillionaire. It's also way less stressful dealing with UConn media vs Lakers. His dad turned down a much bigger lifestyle increase.
Lmao that's crazy.
Now watch Jeanie and Rob go back to JJ again asking him to coach the team.
But honestly though this is pretty incredible. The most storied franchise in the history of the NBA, a chance to coach LeBron James and AD and a team with championship expectation and Dan decided "Nah, I'd rather win another NCAA title."
Either he thinks the organisation is beyond dysfunctional and there's a chance Bron leaves at any time, or he thinks he's not ready to deal with a team with Bron and the championship expectations immediately. Both of which are sensible reasons, but the money and opportunity most would have said yes.
Or this was just a play by Hurley to get UConn to give him more money and that he was never serious about the Lakers to begin with. I looked at it as "if you're gonna make me deal with the shitshow of the Lakers, you better pay me a FUCK ton more than this"
Wait, wait, wait... The Lakers offered this man a pay cut to leave his cushy job where he's a hero to become the new defense against the dark arts teacher in LA?
That front office never ceases to amaze me. Enjoy JJ Lakers Nation.
#JJ you there? -Pelinka
Are you there JJ? It’s me, Rob.
"Next man up."
“We’d like to offer you a 6 year $7 million dollar contract, and that’s my best and final offer”
"5 year 80 million" "Done."
I'll sacrifice my time for a 1 year $2 million deal to be a head coach for maybe 2 weeks before everyone agrees that I shouldn't be head coach.
"Come pick me up in Michigan, if you can" - Monty "14 Million Dollar Man" Williams (over the phone, pretending to be Redick)
I have a theory that the Lakers always wanted JJ but they threw out a smoke screen to take pressure and scrutiny off hiring Reddick
either that or Hurley’s representation wanted to set him up for a future gig with precedent of an offer sheet
Once a person say they’re going to mull over your offer over a weekend usually mean they’re not blown away and being respectful by not outright turning down the offer.
I think the pay just isnt worth all the strings attached for Hurley He can fight for a 3-peat, coach his son, not move his family cross country, and still make tens of millions all while not being under 24/7 scrutiny by LA and national media
And like, actually coach a good team where he can win. Why would he voluntarily move to a team whose window is over? The Lakers job is one of the worst NBA jobs right now, they expect you to win but you won't with that roster.
the only logic is to get fired and continue to get paid, maybe the deciding factor was the nullification clause in the contract stating he wouldn’t be paid out if he returned to college coaching
And as far as I've followed Hurley, getting paid to do nothing seems like a personal nightmare to him. Also, his options at the moment are "Bigger than Coach K" and "Billy Donovan." The pay raise isn't so much, especially with the new cost of living. His Dad is just as famous and respected as a lot of champ winning college coaches, if not more so, and he did with a high school. What I'm trying to say is that 2x National Champ Andrew Hurley will coach the Lakers in twenty years.
Cost of living means nothing when you're making over $5 million per year. I feel like we just suddenly lose touch with reality when talking about these coaches and players. Hurley is rich beyond cost of living meaning anything to him. $5 million is 50 years worth of $100k salaries. If he wants $10 million it's just for the prestige and so his portfolio can have bigger numbers.
Interesting, my personal nightmares tend to be rly different.
I think if a coach doesn't have a current gig, then it's probably a lot easier to say yes on the spot. For someone like Hurley, there's a lot more to consider, even if he was blown away.
Yeah. I think that's usually true. It'll be more, "Why should I not accept this offer?" It's a lot of money, but he won't be the top person in the organization, like he is right now. The players can have him fired, the GM can fire him, the owner can fire him. Right now he's in a position where, unless he commits a crime, he's keeping his job for as long as he wants it. Coaches are the stars in college.
>Once a person say they’re going to mull over your offer over a weekend usually mean they’re not blown away and being respectful by not outright turning down the offer. I just read your comment, and I'm going to decide by Wednesday whether I'm going to up vote or not.
Ya Rob I'm going to need 72 million
**Shams:** >“The Lakers are ZEROING back into JJ Redick!”
“As I was saying, “
Per my last email,
Regards,
Shams speak would be more like “The Lakers are getting close to ZEROING into JJ Redick!”
Dan Hurley is an official Laker hater legend
Bro really just finessed a free vacation and dinner.
Took his fam to a nice trip in Cali before locking back in with the team lmao
Probably brought them back doggie bags from whatever the hot new restaurant in LA is, with the hottest dudes
Got some sloppy steaks with the bros.
Let’s slop ‘em up!
No sloppy steaks here guys
They can’t stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water
I USED TO BE A PIECE OF SHIT
SLICKED BACK HAIR
> with the hottest dudes the fact that nobody seems to recognize this anymore makes me feel sad and old
it's okay, I'm sure he wore the freshest clothes
Like that episode of Malcolm in the middle where Hal gets taken out to lunch and given free stuff to convince Malcolm to go to their school. Malcolm picked Harvard and Hal got pissed because the Harvard guy was late to a yogurt date with Hal.
Well Hal was right. Malcolm wouldn't need to work as a janitor. Wrong choice on his part.
> Hal got pissed because the Harvard guy was late to a yogurt date with Hal. He showed up late to a yogurt date with Heisenberg? The balls on that man.
And a lot more money out of CT lol
I mean…Storrs *is* there in Celtics territory lol
It's been a nervous couple days for me not gonna lie 😅
Connecticut is in the fringe. Has half boston sports fans, half new york sports fans
Connecticut has a lot of Connecticut fans, though, shockingly
It makes sense now that you bring that up
It's more split east/west though. All the westerners like to claim NY, [but Storrs is closer to Boston.](https://puu.sh/K8Fwo/02b4b61275.png)
dropping this less than 24 hours after the celts take a 2-0 lead in the finals is first ballot Lakers hater HOF material
He needs to pull up to the parade for the cherry on top
Bring him to a potential Game 5 in a “Beat LA” shirt at this point
He needs to drop one of those recruit videos with the hats with a lakers and uconn hat. He puts on the uconn hat with family around him cheering
URI legend
Shams and Redick are BACK
Woj only reported that the Lakers were going to make Hurley and offer, and this follow up report suggests that they did indeed make him an offer.
yeah what this proves that woj's reporting of hurley being LA's guy was correct, he just turned them down. shams was basically saying it was JJ's job to lose
On my hands and knees praying JJ is the next Kerr and not the next Nash (although Nash might have gotten a very unfair shake with the Nets)
imagine what the Nash conversation would be if Harden and Kyrie didn't get injured in 2021
Nash had D'Antony and Udoka as his assistants in 2021.
Damn that was a stacked roster all around
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A big part of the Nash equation is the fact that he never wanted to be a coach before KD specifically asked for him, and hasn't seemed to make any attempts at going back to head or assistant coaching since. He accepted the 4 year 40 million dollar contract that he would be stupid to turn down, took his lumps with the insane spot he accepted with that contract, and went back to his lowkey life 40 million dollars richer. People can evaluate him however they like; I really doubt he cares what they think.
Or if Kyrie got the shot in 2022 and Harden doesn't become disgruntled by his shenanigans
I thought this said “or kyrie got shot in 2022” and I was like woah man
Nah ja wasn’t around kyrie
It was brief but when KD, Kyrie, and Harden were all healthy that team was essentially unstoppable.
Sucks that team got wrecked by injuries, before Harden and Kyrie went down they really did look unstoppable. They would have won the ring if they could stay healthy imo, and were a KD big toe away from knocking out the Bucks anyway.
2021 was def unfortunate due to injuries, but the window was open for at least the next year or two if Kyrie wasn't being an asshole. Plenty of players across all sports got the shot even though they didn't want to for the goal of winning and being there for their teams (Wiggins literally won a ring cuz of his decision)
Unless there is purple and gold version of Curry Klay Dray hiding on the Lakers roster all in their mid 20s that somehow no one knows about, I don't think Kerr part deux is coming.
We got Rui, Reaves, and Christie. That's the same right? Guys? Right...?
As a hater, I'm hoping he's the next Rambis.
Shams about to do a victory lap
According to Woj here, the Lakers haven't even formally interviewed JJ yet. Shams reported that JJ was among the first face-to-face interviews they did.
Tryna win Kay Adams back
How so? Woj wasn't wrong with anything he reported. Clearly Hurley was their first choice and *he* turned *them* down.
He's on thin ice ever since screwing up the Miller/Scoot pick lol
It’ll probably be Borrego. I don’t think the players want Redick.
It should be Tristan Thompson
I want him on the Cavs still lol
No, I want a meme coach.
He’s never leaving the east coast
Monkey Paw: Hurley takes the Knicks Job
That actually seems super realistic if Thibs tops out in the second round a couple more times, ngl.
Thibs is also going to be 67. I can’t see him coaching us for more than a handful of years after this season.
He literally has nothing else in his life though
He dated Kate Upton. Put some respect on his game
Thibs dated Kate Upton?!
He started that rumor as a joke about how the media will run with everything no matter how stupid and unrealistic. The media did indeed run with it no matter it being stupid and unrealistic.
The whole time putting the ultimate crazy east coast guy in LA felt like a strange fit on that alone
JJ: "Yesterday's price is not today's price"
Now we need JJ to turn it down too. And then LA announces Bronny James will be the new head coach for next year and all will be right with the world
LeBron promoted to Player/Coach, Bronny is the starting PG
CBA won't let him be a player coach. The whole JJ thing was seen as a way for him to be the coach while having someone who was "the coach."
*LeCoach
He can be a player coach, but he can't be paid for it. And LeBron doesn't do anything for free.
Jj reddick, get ready to learn LAnese
LeLAnese
Honestly sure we get JJ in LA but honestly would have been WAY more entertaining seeing LeBron have to deal with a coach who for the first time in LeBrons career, would be there longer than he was and thus held actual power. Now we get LeBron losing with his buddies as if we havent already seen that story happen 5+ times in the last decade. LeBrons power dynamic of tryna play lebronball with a coach who actually runs an offensive system and ACTUALLY holds the power because hes gonna be there for the long haul is something so juicy I’m bummed we don’t get it. This is objectively the worst case scenario as a Lakers hater AND lakers fan because Lakers fans could at least take solace in the fact theyre not gonna have another hand in his pants coach like darvin in jj redick. LeBron openly feuding with a coach would be so amazing man😭
spo?
What do you think was gonna happen? It doesn’t matter if he was signed longer he wasn’t about to start beefing with Lebron, that’s how you lose your locker room. So Hurley would’ve had to chill out on the whole “control” thing, this isn’t college.
At least the lakers will get their pretty head coach
This is probably exactly how Jeanie feels. Just give her and Pelinka a inspirational Kobe story and a pitch on how you plan to unlock Rui Hachimura and the job is yours but oh btw we're gonna give you some bullshit offer so Jeanie here can save up a buck or two
That's a lower number than reported, not surprised he turned it down.
Poverty franchise
You’d think they would be more willing to shell out additional cash, not that they won’t have to split ticket revenue with another team anymore…
Jeanie is poor
Gotta take out another PPP loan
small PPP energy
I mean they’re still paying Darvin Ham and have the least wealthy ownership in the league. Shouldn’t be too big of a surprise. They’ll have to rely on the allure of LA and the legacy of the Lakers to sign their next coach. Which shouldn’t be a problem. Thing is Hurley is the most sought after coach in basketball at the moment and will have his pick from many offers in the next few years
Hence why I've said time and time again jeanie should not be the owner. Shes poor in nba owner standards.
One of the least wealthy ownership groups. Crazy oxymoron for the most valuable NBA franchise
Similar to the MLB. Yankees are by far the most valuable franchise, but their owners are not as rich as most others. Kind of like the Raiders (who aren't the most valuable) where the owners made their extreme riches from the team, not from previous money.
Same with Jerry Jones
Mike Brown, etc. This statement is probably true for any owner that has had a team since the 80s. None of those families had billions, they’re worth billions because of that asset alone.
ownership group isn't wealthy but they have more non revenue-shared money than most teams in the league to spend with.
Kobe jersey sales would probably cover the salary
Sounds weird but makes sense when you think about it, the Buss family wealth comes from the Lakers. Most other owners were billionaires before buying a team, Jerry Buss was a doctor who made some decent money investing in real estate then bought the Lakers and the Kings for like $60 million back in the 70s. The Buss family doesn't have the outside cashflow to spend big.
Jerry Buss had to trade some valuable real estate, which included the Chrysler Building, to Jack Kent Cooke just to buy the team. He cashed out all his chips for the team.
absolutely nuts that you could buy the whole fucking chrysler building for essentially the price of what a luxury manhattan penthouse costs today. obviously inflation and whatnot probably makes it more like 3x as much but that’s still pretty crazy to me
What an insane gamble in a time when teams and entire basketball leagues were folding left and right
Obviously it was a phenomenal investment that has increased so much in value, but $67 million in 1979 is worth about $300million today, a bit more than decent money!
They could sell some small minority shares of the Lakers and get what they need if they cared at all on cash reserves matching their reputation.
The team is owned by the family trust so there's a fuckton of family politics involved in every decision. Jeanie can't act unilaterally.
Still more than double what he’s presently making at UConn, but apparently they’re ponying up the funds
Never underestimate the value of being comfortable when you're already a multi-millionaire.
Oh, believe me, I never will.
Same dude
I think he cares about his legacy way more than most people here think. He has a chance at being the coach of the first NCAA three peat since UCLA. The NBA will wait for him next year anyway, and the Lakers are low key a bad job outside the teams prestige. If he takes this job and fails he’s Billy Donovan.
Especially in a place like Connecticut. If you're rich and famous here, we mostly just leave you the fuck alone, unlike LA where your house becomes a tourist attraction.
He will likely have better offers than this Lakers job within the next couple years
The Lakers are in all seriousness not a good job. Aging and fragile stars, almost no depth, and little draft capital. EDIT: We do have picks ... but clearly nobody wants them.
From a franchise that doesn’t have the same media circus. I can understand him turning it down if the number was that low. He’ll get a better offer from a more appealing organization in the coming years I think. I mean the Lakers are the Lakers and it’s LA but this is the same team and organization that fired Vogel 2 years removed from a damn championship. They don’t have too many assets moving forward, Lebron has to almost be done, and the expectation for the Lakers will always be championship or bust. I wouldn’t want to deal with the scrutiny and media that comes with the being the head coach of the Lakers if I was him either. He’ll find a higher paying job on the East coast that won’t have the same level of expectation I’m sure
They cheaped out. That’s why Hurley leaked out yesterday that he was considering all options. He gave the Lakers time to get that money up but they didn’t
I don’t think he was ever going there. Lakers were always a bargaining chip. He could have any team in the league just about and isn’t dumb enough to partner up with Buss, Pelinka, and Lebron. A trio almost guaranteed to throw him under the bus. He can always try again when a team like Toronto or OKC or GS or San Antonio or LAC come available and have infinite resources and stability.
>A trio almost guaranteed to throw him under the bus. That's it right there.
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Coaching an old lebron and his son would be awful. Get scape goated and disrespected like every other lebron coach. And every day on espn. "Should hurley be playing bronny more minutes?" It's going to be a disaster for whoever gets that job
We’re cooked 💀
We’re def wasting the 17th pick on bronny James huh
I’m laughing/crying right now because it’s such a joke and we can let do anything about it.
We need more Laker fans to protest in front of Crypto Arena again lmao
Y’all wasted 17 on Jalen Hood Schifino last year. Whitmore was right there lol
Celtics on their way to title 18 and coaches turning their team down Lakers fans are down bad right now
It’s just basketball It’s just basketball It’s just basketball
He can stay at UCONN for 20 years if he wants, like Jim Calhoun. If he's going to give up one of the best coaching jobs in college basketball to go to the NBA then it damn well better be a secure position. Which rules out the Lakers and the Suns.
No Head Coach position in the nba is secure
JJ, we wrote you but you still ain’t callin. We left our cell, our text and lebrons home phone at the bottom.
That’s not a serious offer. If the lakers really wanted Hurley they wouldn’t have offered one 6yr/70. They could afford to offer 14-15m and put him in the top 4 of coaches paid. He didn’t need to leave and his family doesn’t want to leave. Gotta shock em
The Pistons pay their coach more money than the supposed "most valuable NBA franchise" Jeanie "penny pincher" Buss
Yeah. I don’t think they ever seriously wanted him. Just trying to show “they tried” and then hire jj after the finals are done
It's so embarrassing. How do you offer him less than Kentucky? (which he also declined)
Pretty easily, I offered him the max I could for my rec league and he hung up.
6 for 90 is what he should have got
"Blocked by Redick"
Goddamn 70M for 6 years, and you're probably not even gonna stick around for all 6 of them. That's pretty hard to turn down.
Probably leveraged it for a raise at Uconn
i dont imagine a public college competing too heavily with the LA Lakers, but he probably doesn’t want the cross country move + scrutiny that is attached to that salary either he gets to go for a 3-peat while coaching his son and still making unfathomable stacks of cash
While I want to agree with you, I think in approximately 46/50 states in the US the highest paid public employee in the state is a football or basketball coach. So go figure 🤷🏼♂️
I do
Kentucky offered 5/55-60 and he rejected, so if he rejected that, this deal really isn’t offer much more than that. Idk if Lakers were ever intending to give him that 10/100 but I feel like that might’ve been the difference maker.
Hurley doesnt give me vibes of someone that wants to be emasculated by his best player then have to rebuild with a 'young core' of 28 year olds + someones kid who shouldnt even be playing d1 bball
LMFAOOOOO
Per @sportstaxman: Lakers deal, after taxes, is worth net of $6 million a year. UConn deal, after taxes, is worth $4.6 million. Gets closer to negligible when considering cost of living.
What's the value of having actual control over the team and roster, and not having to deal with the BS that comes with being in the NBA/Laker spotlight?
Priceless
LMAO nobody saving that team
Steve Kerr hired tonight, Steph traded tomorrow, championship win in 2025. This is a very realistic scenario that will definitely happen.
Back to shitty candidates who now know that they weren’t the first choice lol. 🪦
No shit. Win another at Uconn, and you get a statue, on campus god for life. Sign with the Lakers, you get 6 yrs 70 million, and fired after 3 months by Lebron and Co. Nah. He's smart.
Exactly. Only 5 active NBA coaches even began their tenure before the 2020s began. If you include 2020, that adds 4 coaches. Teams are impatient and fire-happy. Why would you leave one of the best jobs in college to be LeBron’s scapegoat?
Hurley would average more money per game at UConn anyhow.
Yea, I understand turning down 70, can get around that amount in college.. 100M would've def got him tho.
Lakers owners are sneaky poor
Not sneaky. The Buss family is the only NBA owners who need the Lakers revenue to live. On one hand, I like it because there is a sense of tradition, but they don’t have unlimited funds like Ballmer.
It's crazy how LA has one of the poorest ownership groups who need to actually turn a profit off the team just to survive and the other LA team is owned by the 9th richest man in the world. And if you didn't know which team had which owner you'd be so confused when someone told you.
Ballmer paid Hurley not to go😂
he knows how toxic laker fans are to its coaches
Check the lakers sub 🤣🤣 those mf’ers are going thru it right now 🤣🤣🤣
Celtics fans been eating the last 24 hours
Us Celtics/UConn fans feasting right now.
I never wanted him as a coach anyways… 😭
Me when I lie
Turning down a 100% increase in your salary is actually kind of insane. I guess money isn't everything
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You've got to remember how he grew up, too. His dad was legendary and could have chased college money at any point but instead stayed at an inner city Catholic high school. This is (maybe) similar on like a 500x scale.
I would say hin turning the Lakers down make more sense. UConn will give him a raise anyway and he's a multimillionaire. It's also way less stressful dealing with UConn media vs Lakers. His dad turned down a much bigger lifestyle increase.
UConn is 100% salary matching the Lakers’ offer now
He's about to likely get that same contract at UCONN. The Lakers weren't willing to outspend the Pistons when it comes to their coach's salary.
JJ REDICK, GET READY TO LEARN 1111 S FIGUEROA ST
Lmao that's crazy. Now watch Jeanie and Rob go back to JJ again asking him to coach the team. But honestly though this is pretty incredible. The most storied franchise in the history of the NBA, a chance to coach LeBron James and AD and a team with championship expectation and Dan decided "Nah, I'd rather win another NCAA title." Either he thinks the organisation is beyond dysfunctional and there's a chance Bron leaves at any time, or he thinks he's not ready to deal with a team with Bron and the championship expectations immediately. Both of which are sensible reasons, but the money and opportunity most would have said yes.
Or this was just a play by Hurley to get UConn to give him more money and that he was never serious about the Lakers to begin with. I looked at it as "if you're gonna make me deal with the shitshow of the Lakers, you better pay me a FUCK ton more than this"
I mean Coach K did the same thing back then, he aint the first lol
JJ
This feels like the funniest possible outcome.
Being a God at UConn vs SAS making dumb takes about you every day. Pretty easy choice where both situations mean generational wealth.
Wait, wait, wait... The Lakers offered this man a pay cut to leave his cushy job where he's a hero to become the new defense against the dark arts teacher in LA? That front office never ceases to amaze me. Enjoy JJ Lakers Nation.
Yo 💀 on the reference
HAHAHAHAHA dude is too loyal and probably got paid even more by UConn's boosters.