Dan Hurley's legendary father wanted him to take Lakers' coaching job

While the Los Angeles Lakers were looking to make JJ Redick their next head coach late in the spring of 2024, they made a surprising, high-profile detour when they courted Dan Hurley, the coach at the University of Connecticut, for that same job.At the time, the Huskies had just won the men's NCAA championship for the second year in a row, and Hurley wanted to go for a three-peat.

But while he was tempted to come out to Los Angeles to coach the world's most famous basketball team, the Tri-State area native elected to stay in Storrs.His father, Bob Hurley, was a legendary high school basketball coach at St.

Anthony High School in Jersey City, N.J.

He admitted in a recent interview on Jon Rothsteins Inside College Basketball Now that the elder Hurley wanted him to take the job with the Purple and Gold.The younger Hurley explained one reason why he didn't take his father's advice to come to the Lakers.The thing with my dad is, at different points in my career, hes advised us to make the move and take the job, and he never did.

I always took my dads advice on career advancement with a heavy grain of salt, because he never left St.

Anthony, Dan Hurley told Rothstein.

The one thing I dont listen to Bob Hurley Sr.

about is how to advance my career, because he never left his high school when he could have coached at any level.As it turned out, Redick did a fine job in his first season as the Lakers' coach.

Although they lost in the first round of the NBA playoffs in five games to the Minnesota Timberwolves, he guided them to the third-best record in the Western Conference.

In doing so, he had to overcome a couple of extended slumps, off-the-court obstacles and February's humongous trade for Luka Doncic.Meanwhile, the Huskies failed to win their third straight title and lost in the second round of the NCAA tournament to the University of Florida.

Lakers fans felt a measure of karma and even schadenfreude when the loss occurred.This article originally appeared on LeBron Wire: Dan Hurley's legendary father wanted him to take Lakers' coaching job.

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