{"id":484075,"date":"2024-06-10T16:55:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T20:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484075"},"modified":"2024-06-10T16:56:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T20:56:07","slug":"hurley-prefers-to-remain-at-uconn-than-coach-lakers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/hurley-prefers-to-remain-at-uconn-than-coach-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurley prefers to remain at UConn than coach Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Hurley has rejected the chance to ink a 6-year, 70 million dollar offer with LA Lakers and return to chase a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> consecutive national championship at UConn.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles would have made Dan 1 of the league\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dan Hurley will not accept the Lakers HC job and is staying with UConn per, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@wojespn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hurley turned down a six-year, $70M offer from LA <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x6CgmnLgN8\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/x6CgmnLgN8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1800221622475141496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/lebron-james\/\">LeBron James<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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<sup>nd<\/sup> program to win 3 consecutive men&#8217;s national championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Hurley has rejected the chance to ink a 6-year, 70 million dollar offer with LA Lakers and return to chase a 3rd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484076,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22991,16970,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[22992,17645,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Dan rejected the NBA job and will continue to manage in the college.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484078,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484075\/revisions\/484078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484075"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484075"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}