Hurley prefers to remain at UConn than coach Lakers

Dan Hurley has rejected the chance to ink a 6-year, 70 million dollar offer with LA Lakers and return to chase a 3^rd consecutive national championship at UConn.

Los Angeles would have made Dan 1 of the league’s 6 highest-paid managers. But before starting discussions with Lakers, Hurley already had an offer from his college team to become 1 of the highest-paid NCAA managers, and those discussions will continue.

Dan Hurley will not accept the Lakers HC job and is staying with UConn per, @wojespn

Hurley turned down a six-year, $70M offer from LA pic.twitter.com/x6CgmnLgN8

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Dan inked a 6-year, over 32 million dollars contract with UConn after the 2022-23 campaign. Hurley had the opportunity of taking over 1 of the most popular organizations in pro sports and a potential opportunity to lead National Basketball Association all-time scoring leader LeBron James.

But Dan at the end chose to remain at UConn, which has gone 68-11 over the last 2 championship-winning campaign and will try to become the 2^nd program to win 3 consecutive men’s national championships.