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The Lakers do have a coach in waiting.

It's just probably not the coach we thought who would be in waiting.

If you're just waking up,

Woge with a Woge bomb that Danny Hurley is being targeted

as the next head coach of the L.A. Lakers.

Here we thought it was JJ Reddick.

We're waiting until the NBA Finals is over,

and then he would assume that position.

Not so fast. So once again, I guess being targeted according to Woge. Usually when Wode

says that, it feels like the contract talks are a little bit further down the road. And I'm guessing

if Danny Hurley is looking at what would be compensatory for me, what I did at Yukon,

now going to the Lakers. Lakers have been historically cheap with some of their coaches here,

and they lost out on Tailu because they didn't want to pony up what the Clippers were willing to pay.

He might look around and go, I want what Tailu's getting or I want what Eric Spolster is getting.

Is it going to be, you know, $12 million, $15 million a year?

That's something that Connecticut would not be able to match because they're a state school,

not a private school.

But this, this was a well-kept secret in a town that doesn't keep secrets very well.

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