UConn males’s basketball followers can exhale now.
Two months after the Huskies received their second straight nationwide title, head coach Dan Hurley gave this system’s followers one more reason to have fun on Monday along with his return to Storrs, Conn.
Scores of UConn followers and basketball consultants alike have been shocked when it was reported on June 6 that the Los Angeles Lakers have been making ready a “large, long-term contract supply to Hurley.”
After the information broke, social media customers shortly remembered Lakers famous person LeBron James’ current feedback on X praising the 51-year-old. Many followers made the connection, and headlines throughout the basketball world induced panic throughout elements of the Connecticut campus and past.
LBJ’s reward on April 19 was solely 11 days after Hurley helped lead the Huskies to the championship by defeating Purdue, 75-60.
The feedback have been in response to a video of JJ Redick interviewing Hurley on the previous’s podcast, “The Outdated Man and the Three.” Redick, satirically, has been rumored to be a front-runner for the Lakers gig for weeks.
There are a number of doable the explanation why Hurley determined to stick with UConn, regardless of the hefty supply from Los Angeles.
He was born and raised in Jersey Metropolis, New Jersey, and has spent his complete teaching profession within the Northeast, so transferring out west would’ve been an enormous upheaval for his household.
The prospect of turning into simply the second males’s basketball program ever to win three straight championships was a probable issue as effectively.
UConn has gone 68-11 in its two title-winning seasons and the workforce will now try to affix UCLA as the one workforce to three-peat. The Bruins received seven straight NCAA championships from 1967-1973.
As famous by Spotrac, Hurley signed a six-year, $32.1M contract extension with the Huskies final summer time and he would’ve needed to pay a $1.875M price to depart for an NBA job.
