Dan Hurley has spoken truthfully about his spouse Andrea’s response to the Lakers providing her husband the top teaching position.
The UConn coach turned down LA’s six-year, $70 million contract supply to chase a three-peat within the nationwide championship with the Huskies.
The 51-year-old acquired brutally sincere about how the entire scenario, together with the wild media circus, affected his spouse.
“She was like crying to start with,” Hurley stated throughout an look on The Dan Le Batard Present with Stugotz on Thursday. “I feel initially, the primary couple days of it, she acquired violently offended and emotional, not like hitting me and stuff… she acquired emotional like, ‘I can’t consider 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 dangerous to start with however then she warmed as much as it once we acquired on the market and he or she met [Lakers GM] Rob [Pelinka] and he or she met Jeanie [Buss] and felt the climate. We drove round Manhattan Seashore and simply met the folks largely. And she or he noticed the imaginative and prescient of it. She was into it.
“However then once we acquired again to Connecticut with out having decided and we acquired again residence and we each flipped again [to UConn].”
Hurley went on to clarify that he would have taken extra time to mull the supply over, however put a deadline on the choice.
“[The decision] was weighing on me and my spouse and my two sons and our entire household,” Hurley stated, including that issues had “turn into an excessive amount of of a circus” within the media.
He additionally shut down the rumor that he used the Lakers teaching supply as leverage to get a greater contract with the Huskies.
“One of many worst takes I’ve heard is that it is a leverage play by me to enhance my scenario at UConn,” Hurley informed 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 scenario for me.
“I’ve had a contract in place right here for a few weeks. And the ultimate half, by way of wage, has been finished 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 snug with. However the sense of the concept this was some conspiracy to get me a sweeter deal at UConn is simply, it’s lazy.”
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