Dan Hurley has spoken actually about his spouse Andrea’s response to the Lakers providing her husband the pinnacle teaching function.
The UConn coach turned down LA’s six-year, $70 million contract provide to chase a three-peat within the nationwide championship with the Huskies.
The 51-year-old received brutally trustworthy about how the entire state of affairs, together with the wild media circus, affected his spouse.
“She was like crying at first,” Hurley mentioned throughout an look on The Dan Le Batard Present with Stugotz on Thursday. “I feel initially, the primary couple days of it, she received violently offended and emotional, not like hitting me and stuff… she received emotional like, ‘I can’t imagine you’re bringing this. Our life is so nice… it’s good. Our lives couldn’t be higher and now you’re bringing this sh*t.
“So, she was unhealthy at first however then she warmed as much as it after we received on the market and she or he met [Lakers GM] Rob [Pelinka] and she or he met Jeanie [Buss] and felt the climate. We drove round Manhattan Seaside and simply met the folks principally. And she or he noticed the imaginative and prescient of it. She was into it.
“However then after we received again to Connecticut with out having decided and we received again residence and we each flipped again [to UConn].”
Hurley went on to clarify that he would have taken extra time to mull the provide over, however put a deadline on the choice.
“[The decision] was weighing on me and my spouse and my two sons and our complete household,” Hurley mentioned, including that issues had “develop into an excessive amount of of a circus” within the media.
He additionally shut down the rumor that he used the Lakers teaching provide as leverage to get a greater contract with the Huskies.
“One of many worst takes I’ve heard is that this can be a leverage play by me to enhance my state of affairs at UConn,” Hurley advised Le Batard.. “I don’t want leverage right here. We’ve received back-to-back nationwide championships at this place. This was by no means a leverage state of affairs for me.
“I’ve had a contract in place right here for a few weeks. And the ultimate half, when it comes to wage, has been performed for some time. There are another components, like NIL and workers wage and a few various things, that I need adjusted and I’m not comfy with. However the sense of the concept that this was some conspiracy to get me a sweeter deal at UConn is simply, it’s lazy.”
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