Dan Hurley: To say that it’s not a motivating factor – the finances –to leave a place, it’s definitely a thing…To leave all that behind, there probably is a number. I don’t know what that is.
So for anyone saying money wasn’t a factor and that the Lakers didn’t do all they could… lmao
100/8 is the same amount of money they offered him… just 2 more years. would 100 million be the difference? maybe, we certainly could’ve tried but if it’s the exact same he was going to make then idk what else we needed to do outside of an insane offer
SolarBeam12
The only way he was going to leave was probably going to be with him getting 80m or more guaranteed.
odinlubumeta
This reads more like negotiations for his post UConn career. Like if in 5 years he is done with college he can go into an interview and say he would leave if enough money was in the table. The guy is very smart. He is setting up a baseline for negotiations years in advance.
mazingerjim
No more Dan / Bobby Hurley news. Move on.
LebronsPinkyToe
who cares, he declined its time to move on
Reasonable-Total-628
lets give coach with 0 nba expirience biggest contract in nba. what could go wrong?
C1ncinnatiBowtie
Tough headline for the “it wasn’t about the money” crowd. It’s ALWAYS about the benjamins
goatnxtinline
Can we stop talking about this guy already?
Skyfalcon5
He has an ideal situation at UConn and only a godfather offer gets him to leave. But whatever it’s done now time to move on.
Splittinghairs7
This Hurley guy is just trying to set up the next interested NBA team to give him a Godfather offer for a job he’s really interested in.
Lavy23
I wish non-Laker fans would just leave the sub. Go jerk off to Hurley and Balmer somewhere else.
DudeWTH
I don’t think a first time NBA coach should be getting paid top 3 money. But it’s not my money so idc
Swaggyzilla69
It doesn’t make sense to make an unproven NBA coach the highest paid coach in the league. Making him top 5 was a pretty generous offer.
For comparison sake, Mike Malone, Nick Nurse, Doc Rivers, and Quin Snyder made 8 million last year. Ime Udoka, Ty Lue, Tom Thibodeau, and Rick Carlisle made around 7 million each.
cmatj392
Idk, he literally said there were a few things he didn’t like on his UCONN contract that were still being negotiated.
How can the threat of receiving an offer from an NBA team NOT be a leverage play? He may not consider it leverage from a financial standpoint but clearly whatever he didn’t like on the contract got changed because of the Lakers….
_Zap_Rowsdower_
Never felt really confident in this potential hire and it shot down to zero when he left the Lakers without a deal. Hurley is a deep rooted east coast guy. Coming to LA would have been a massive change in his life and career. He would have taken the Lakers deal if it was from the Sixers, Wizards, Nets, etc simply due to the location.
No_Decision8972
Yeah ok Dan, you could’ve negotiated it’s not a set offer but just move on I don’t like this hovering over the Lakers we got some real work to do
Ranieboy
Straight from the sources mouth and people still defending the FO and keep making excuses for them.
Jeanie Buss have a chokehold on this sub jfc.
Ghostbeen3
Pretty sure this whole thing was an act that benefitted both sides. Hurley makes UConn paranoid and gets higher offer or extension or whatever. Lakers put pressure on coaching candidates for a lower offer or makes them more anxious about taking the position. Smoke screen
WanAjin
You are the exact person that would blame the FO for making Hurley the highest-paid coach in the league (cause that’s what it would take to get him to leave) if he went on to be shit for the Lakers.
P00nz0r3d
That number is likely a number that would make him the highest paid coach in the league, maybe all time, and let’s be honest with ourselves, he doesn’t deserve that money in the nba quite yet.
TorontoRaptors34
So Jeanie cheaper than Mr Krabs
theflow21
He probably wanted 100M guaranteed. I think he would be a fantastic coach in the NBA but I understand the Lakers not wanting to commit that much to somebody who doesn’t have NBA experience.
manofthepeopleSMITTY
Receive death threats within 1 month of coaching the Lakers<Getting a statue and continuing a dynasty with UConn.
^ This pretty much sums it up.
darklighthumid
Insurance money just in case he gets fired after 10 days of coaching or heart attack from death threats. lmao
fastlikeanascar
Has he signed a new UConn deal? Because if not, this is just more negotiating
sweetleaf009
Ok now hes just greedy
daddyscientist
More than $70 million, that’s for sure.
mtrn3
How did Jim Buss get thrown off the boat again? Maybe they should do that to Jeanie.
vinylmartyr
Yeah. They would look like fools is they paid this guy like the top coach in the league and he loses in the 1st round of the playoffs. History says that he likely won’t succeed.
Dgwdum
Why are people still making the “whybwpuld we make him a top x paid coach” who tf cares. If you like the guy and believe he can be great, then just pay him. if it doesn’t work out, so be it. If it does, then you got your coach for a decade or more
motorboat_mcgee
He was using our offer to negotiate a raise with his current employer. It’s a tale as old as time. You all need to chill, damn
Zeetheking1
I think we dodged a bullet with this one. Dude sounds like such a dick and I don’t think that would translate well with grown men.
ASithLordNoAffect
Cheap owner. Lakers should not have a problem paying a coach huge money and then hiring another one for big money if it doesn’t work out. Jeanie needs to sell the team. The Buss family is just gonna get bigger and bigger which means more mouths to feed.
AirBishop
Some much compium in this thread lmao you guys saying that it would be a risk making Hurley a top paid coach is hilarious. What is the risk? Coach contracts don’t affect anyone but the owner because there is no salary cap for one. Excusing Jeanie’s mistake after mistake and being a notorious cheapskate is the reason this team will continue to be run like this. If Jeanie would’ve offered him a better deal and he turned it down I would’ve applauded the FO because at least we would know he didn’t turn us down because of something the FO could’ve done. But with this offer and this statement shows we could’ve potentially had him if the price was right.
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100/8 is the same amount of money they offered him… just 2 more years. would 100 million be the difference? maybe, we certainly could’ve tried but if it’s the exact same he was going to make then idk what else we needed to do outside of an insane offer
The only way he was going to leave was probably going to be with him getting 80m or more guaranteed.
This reads more like negotiations for his post UConn career. Like if in 5 years he is done with college he can go into an interview and say he would leave if enough money was in the table. The guy is very smart. He is setting up a baseline for negotiations years in advance.
No more Dan / Bobby Hurley news. Move on.
who cares, he declined its time to move on
lets give coach with 0 nba expirience biggest contract in nba. what could go wrong?
Tough headline for the “it wasn’t about the money” crowd. It’s ALWAYS about the benjamins
Can we stop talking about this guy already?
He has an ideal situation at UConn and only a godfather offer gets him to leave. But whatever it’s done now time to move on.
This Hurley guy is just trying to set up the next interested NBA team to give him a Godfather offer for a job he’s really interested in.
I wish non-Laker fans would just leave the sub. Go jerk off to Hurley and Balmer somewhere else.
I don’t think a first time NBA coach should be getting paid top 3 money. But it’s not my money so idc
It doesn’t make sense to make an unproven NBA coach the highest paid coach in the league. Making him top 5 was a pretty generous offer.
For comparison sake, Mike Malone, Nick Nurse, Doc Rivers, and Quin Snyder made 8 million last year. Ime Udoka, Ty Lue, Tom Thibodeau, and Rick Carlisle made around 7 million each.
Idk, he literally said there were a few things he didn’t like on his UCONN contract that were still being negotiated.
How can the threat of receiving an offer from an NBA team NOT be a leverage play? He may not consider it leverage from a financial standpoint but clearly whatever he didn’t like on the contract got changed because of the Lakers….
Never felt really confident in this potential hire and it shot down to zero when he left the Lakers without a deal. Hurley is a deep rooted east coast guy. Coming to LA would have been a massive change in his life and career. He would have taken the Lakers deal if it was from the Sixers, Wizards, Nets, etc simply due to the location.
Yeah ok Dan, you could’ve negotiated it’s not a set offer but just move on I don’t like this hovering over the Lakers we got some real work to do
Straight from the sources mouth and people still defending the FO and keep making excuses for them.
Jeanie Buss have a chokehold on this sub jfc.
Pretty sure this whole thing was an act that benefitted both sides. Hurley makes UConn paranoid and gets higher offer or extension or whatever. Lakers put pressure on coaching candidates for a lower offer or makes them more anxious about taking the position. Smoke screen
You are the exact person that would blame the FO for making Hurley the highest-paid coach in the league (cause that’s what it would take to get him to leave) if he went on to be shit for the Lakers.
That number is likely a number that would make him the highest paid coach in the league, maybe all time, and let’s be honest with ourselves, he doesn’t deserve that money in the nba quite yet.
So Jeanie cheaper than Mr Krabs
He probably wanted 100M guaranteed. I think he would be a fantastic coach in the NBA but I understand the Lakers not wanting to commit that much to somebody who doesn’t have NBA experience.
Receive death threats within 1 month of coaching the Lakers<Getting a statue and continuing a dynasty with UConn.
^ This pretty much sums it up.
Insurance money just in case he gets fired after 10 days of coaching or heart attack from death threats. lmao
Has he signed a new UConn deal? Because if not, this is just more negotiating
Ok now hes just greedy
More than $70 million, that’s for sure.
How did Jim Buss get thrown off the boat again? Maybe they should do that to Jeanie.
Yeah. They would look like fools is they paid this guy like the top coach in the league and he loses in the 1st round of the playoffs. History says that he likely won’t succeed.
Why are people still making the “whybwpuld we make him a top x paid coach” who tf cares. If you like the guy and believe he can be great, then just pay him. if it doesn’t work out, so be it. If it does, then you got your coach for a decade or more
He was using our offer to negotiate a raise with his current employer. It’s a tale as old as time. You all need to chill, damn
I think we dodged a bullet with this one. Dude sounds like such a dick and I don’t think that would translate well with grown men.
Cheap owner. Lakers should not have a problem paying a coach huge money and then hiring another one for big money if it doesn’t work out. Jeanie needs to sell the team. The Buss family is just gonna get bigger and bigger which means more mouths to feed.
Some much compium in this thread lmao you guys saying that it would be a risk making Hurley a top paid coach is hilarious. What is the risk? Coach contracts don’t affect anyone but the owner because there is no salary cap for one. Excusing Jeanie’s mistake after mistake and being a notorious cheapskate is the reason this team will continue to be run like this. If Jeanie would’ve offered him a better deal and he turned it down I would’ve applauded the FO because at least we would know he didn’t turn us down because of something the FO could’ve done. But with this offer and this statement shows we could’ve potentially had him if the price was right.
Whatever