The Los Angeles Lakers‘ seek for their subsequent coach has taken a dramatic flip as they’re now focusing on UConn’s Dan Hurley, in accordance with a report by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Wojnarowski shook up the basketball world early Thursday morning together with his report that the Lakers want to give Hurley a large longterm deal and that talks are going to warmth up over the subsequent few days.
Hurley has led UConn to back-to-back NCAA titles over the previous two years.
Wojnarowski broke the information in a sequence of tweets:
ESPN Sources: The Lakers have had preliminary contact with Hurley and sides are planning to escalate discussions in coming days. Hurley’s been on the forefront of the Lakers’ search from the start of the method, even whereas the group has achieved its due diligence…
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 6, 2024 Rob Pelinka and Jeanie Buss are wanting to formally focus on their imaginative and prescient with Hurley of marrying his dominant program — constructed upon each his tactical acumen and elite participant improvement — to the storied Lakers’ model, sources inform ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 6, 2024 “The Los Angeles Lakers are making ready a large long run supply for Connecticut Lakers coach, Dan Hurley…
The perimeters have preliminary contact, I am instructed and people conversations are anticipated to escalate within the coming days.”
Adrian Wojnarowski with a wojbomb. pic.twitter.com/Sx5T77e49y — The Comeback (@thecomeback) June 6, 2024
We’ll have extra updates as they arrive.
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