Hurley's Decision
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2024
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Summary
Dan Hurley has decided he will stay at the University of Connecticut and not become the next Lakers head coach. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss the news, offering their initial reactions, the vacuum of the news cycle and the public nature of the negotiations, and where the team goes from here.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.5 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. |
| 0:23.6 | What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. |
| 0:26.5 | Good to be back. In a whole saga transpired while I was gone. |
| 0:29.8 | I was out from after Tuesday through the end. |
| 0:32.8 | And I think it was Thursday morning, really early in the morning, the news about Dan Hurley breaks out of nowhere. |
| 0:38.0 | And then today we get word from Woad reporting that Hurley is turning down a six-year, |
| 0:44.1 | $70 million offer. I have, I had so many of which won't be shared now that he's reportedly |
| 0:52.1 | turned them down. But what's your reaction to Hurley, |
| 0:55.9 | hurdy turning down the Lakers offer? I think it's a combination of disappointment. First, |
| 1:02.9 | first of all, I would have loved to have had him as the next Lakers head coach. I would have |
| 1:08.6 | also had some concerns if he would have been hired as a head coach, |
| 1:11.7 | but that's no longer a conversation that we need to have. I'm also disappointed that this was so |
| 1:16.1 | public, but that feels by design and not by design from the Lakers side. As you both know, |
| 1:22.9 | behind the scenes, because we were texting a lot since the news broke on Thursday morning. I was |
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