The Lakers appear to actually need Dan Hurley within the fold.
Los Angeles plans to satisfy with the UConn males’s basketball coach on Friday and hopes to shut a deal as quickly because the weekend because the Lakers look to fill their emptiness on the bench, in keeping with ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
After information broke earlier Thursday that the Lakers have been within the two-time nationwide champion Huskies coach, Wojnarowski added extra particulars concerning the upcoming assembly on “NBA Countdown” earlier than Recreation 1 of the NBA Finals.
The “extraordinarily aggressive” Lakers may have proprietor Jeanie Buss and normal supervisor and vp Rob Pelinka meet with Hurley and his agent on Friday.
The ESPN insider added that the 2 sides will focus on what a possible partnership would appear like, and he expects talks will transfer rapidly, although the Lakers nonetheless have to find out if there’s a “match” in Los Angeles.
Wojnarowski expects issues to complete rapidly, even when Hurley doesn’t intend to signal a deal.
The 2 sides have already got had preliminary discussions concerning the job, and The Publish confirmed Thursday that Hurley is within the gig.
Los Angeles has the teaching opening after Darvin Ham was fired following a first-round playoff exit after a 47-35 common season.
Earlier this week, The Athletic reported that ESPN analyst and former NBAer JJ Redick was being zeroed in on as a prime candidate for the gig.
On Wednesday, Redick addressed the report on the “GoJo and Golic” present, saying he’s preserving his concentrate on his media work for the NBA Finals.
“I might says this: My focus proper now’s on calling the NBA Finals,” Redick stated. “I’m so lucky that I’m on this place and I get to name these finals with Doris and Mike … my day-to-day proper now’s consumed with calling video games, the 19 totally different podcasts I really feel like I’ve, my obligations to all of our companions. My focus is on the NBA Finals.”
Hurley, who denied that he had any curiosity in Kentucky’s teaching opening earlier this spring, stated after UConn received its second straight nationwide title that he wasn’t going to be leaving for one more faculty.
“I’m not going within the portal,” Hurley stated in April, in keeping with the Hartford Courant. “I’m not.”
Not lengthy after that, Hurley was on “The Dan Patrick Present” and stated he would be a part of the NBA ranks “down the highway if I can develop up a little bit bit.”
Hurley has reached the NCAA Match 4 straight years and has a 141-58 file since taking on the UConn program in 2018-19 after stops at Wagner and Rhode Island.
