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[Goodman] The Lakers offer was for 6 years and around $70 million, per sources. Hurley has elected to remain at UConn and has a 6-year deal worth approximately $50 million on the table, source told @TheFieldOf68.



[Goodman] The Lakers offer was for 6 years and around $70 million, per sources. Hurley has elected to remain at UConn and has a 6-year deal worth approximately $50 million on the table, source told @TheFieldOf68.

by Good-Fold-1815

43 Comments

  1. What happened to the rumors of 15-16 million a year? These numbers would have him being paid in the mid tier. Slap in the face underpay.

  2. Lol, Lakers offered less than Kentucky. Our ownership is poor.

  3. How the hell an nba team got less money than a university

  4. elimanninglightspeed

    Kentucky Offered more. Have some shame Jeanie

  5. iiivoted4kodos

    Lakers should’ve offered more, but to me if he turned down 6/70 mil he was also turning down 8/100 mil.

    He really just didn’t wanna leave UCONN.

  6. ProudVirgin101

    After CA taxes it’s practically the same. This is the Lakers “all-in” offer? Pathetic.

  7. BookerTeet

    Deal could have been 100 mil and he still would have turned it down. 

    When he tuned down KY there was no way he was leaving for the NBA let alone the Lakers.

    We all knew this. 

  8. LeBrons7thRing

    Lue 2.0. But Instead of low balling on years they didn’t make an offer that would blow Hurley away

  9. Gristle__McThornbody

    Lakers needed to make it 100 million if they wanted him but you have to think that is massive overpay.

  10. HibachiGrill

    Trash front office filled with numerous people who aren’t qualified to do the bare minimum of their jobs

  11. UConn outbidding the Lakers Lmaoooo unreal, 11 Million per year isn’t gonna get it done. Unserious offer.

  12. BizzyHaze

    Less taxes in Connecticut too. 6/100 woulda been a more compelling offer.

  13. LAKESHOW03

    Jeanie needs to sell and go work full time at her comedy club.

  14. ImprovementSilly2895

    Said it wasn’t happening yesterday and got downvoted by the usual morons. JJ Podcast here we go

  15. PolarRegs

    When you factor in the difference in taxes the difference isn’t as large as originally reported. Net it might be less then 10 million over the 6 years especially when you factor in college contracts are usually littered with a lot more bonuses the nba contracts on top of the base money.

  16. baribigbird06

    Hurley made the right choice, this ownership and front office is garbage.

  17. im-a-drawl

    And here come all of the complainers saying the Lakers didn’t offer him enough money. I think it’s been pretty obvious this wasn’t really about the money for Hurley.

  18. Spirituallly

    Wouldn’t you think to offer him a number he can’t refuse? Like 6/70 is really not far off from what UCONN can give him. You gotta blow him away with 100mil no?

  19. Walking away from an extra $20 million…I hope I’m that rich one day

  20. 6/70 was never gonna cut it… If we knew that from the start, I doubt many of us would have been so hopeful.

  21. Tall_Succotash

    He was not leaving his situation no matter what the offer is

    Some ppl are comfortable doing what they do. I don’t think he’ll ever coach the NBA..no other team offering more than that for a first time college coach.

  22. jurassic_snark-

    $70 million/6 years = $11.6 mil/yr

    $100 million/8 years = $12.5 mil/yr

    It’s a difference of $5 million. Makes sense they’d add it in more if he committed for longer, but even at $75 mil/6yrs it wouldn’t have mattered because this was all a finesse job

    Fuck that guy

  23. 818_Dude_Again

    Hope he’s a first round knockout next year

  24. Ngl We should go target his assistant coach and his coaching staff. Weren’t there reports of his assistant being the brains behind the offensive schemes?

  25. All I know is that I’ll be praying for UConn not to 3-peat.

  26. Fuck dude.. they’re gonna hire JJ.. if they do, I really hope he crushes it. I don’t feel good about it though.

  27. BaullahBaullah87

    Now he gets to tell Uconn to bump that offer up…played us like a fiddle as he should

  28. Serious_Condition_81

    Higher taxes and less job security. Probably would have had to offer 6/$100m

  29. halcyondread

    He turned down $100 mill from Kentucky. Why in the world would the Lakers’ brass think 70 would get it done? If they were serious about poaching him they had to beat that offer. I fully believe he went into the meeting with the Lakers wanting to be blown away and was offered, after considering taxes and having to uproot his family from the east coast, a lateral deal at best.

    I don’t want to hear shit about “well, he would have been the 5th highest paid coach in the league”, that’s besides the point. If LA saw him as the guy who would be their coach for the next decade and reshape their culture then you go over the top and make it impossible for him to turn them down. If the Lakers didn’t feel that strongly about him then why even meet with him in the first place.

  30. Miserable-Lawyer-233

    That offer wasn’t as big as I was expecting. Hurley probably felt the same way. “One of the NBA’s six highest-paid coaches” doesn’t have a ring to it.

  31. Clear_Lead

    “I’ll think about it” is not what you want to hear when offering somebody 70 mil

  32. People who complain about him being underpaid will the first ones to say “I can’t believe our incompetent FO paid 15 mil for this incompetent pos smh” if he took the job and lost one game. There is no pleasing them.

  33. fr0nkOhshun

    Post tax the lakers 11.6 is ~5.5m and UConn’s would be ~4.5m. QOL with 5.5 in LA I would think would be worse than 4.5m at wherever he is. Lakers taking the L again for not doing simple math/research

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