The Los Angeles Lakers are meeting with UConn head coach Dan Hurley on Friday in Los Angeles for their head coaching job, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN. Winners of back-to-back national championships, it could be tough to land Hurley. However, according to David Borges of CT Insider, the Lakers could offer Hurley $100 million “guaranteed.”
“And what amount of money are we talking about, by the way? The figure of ‘$100,000,000, guaranteed’ has been whispered,” Borges wrote on June 7. “Perhaps more. Assuming Hurley gets somewhere between the $13 million Monty Williams is being paid by Detroit annually and the $17 million that Steve Kerr gets as the NBA’s highest-paid coach, that would likely be for about six or seven years.”
Unless UConn could come up with more than $10 million per year, the offer from the Lakers would likely be a higher figure than what they could offer.
Wojnarowski reported the news on June 6, a report that came as a surprise as there weren’t any rumors about Hurley to the Los Angeles Lakers before that.
According to Wojnarowski, “The Lakers have had preliminary contact with Hurley.”sions in the coming days, sources told ESPN,” Wojnarowski wrote. “Hurley has been at the forefront of the Lakers’ search from the beginning of the process, even while the organization has done its due diligence interviewing several other candidates, sources said.”
Hurley told UConn players at practice on June 6 that the Lakers had contacted him and he was listening to what they had to say. According to John Fanta of FOX Sports, Hurley “didn’t want to hide the fact that this is real.”
