{"id":159967,"date":"2025-09-23T16:41:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=159967"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:41:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:41:46","slug":"dan-hurley-shares-biggest-lakers-regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/09\/23\/dan-hurley-shares-biggest-lakers-regret\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Hurley Shares Biggest Lakers Regret"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last summer, when the Los Angeles Lakers fired Darvin Ham after a first-round loss to the Denver Nuggets, they went on an extensive coaching search. UConn’s Dan Hurley was one of the options before they eventually chose JJ Redick. The offer to Hurley was never revealed<\/a>, with some rumors speculating it was in the range of six years, $70 million. But Hurley turned down the offer and returned to college basketball. In the end, the Lakers hired Redick, and he won 50 games before losing in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs.<\/p>\n

Dan Hurley Shares Biggest Lakers Regret<\/h2>\n

Recently, Hurley joined “The Zach Lowe Show” to discuss several topics. Of course, the topic of him joining the NBA and coaching the Lakers naturally came up. Asked whether he thought “hey, this could be you” after the Lakers traded for Luka Doncic<\/a>, he replied:<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I got some of those. I get some of those, but I\u2019d say, a majority of it is Lakers fans, you know, direct messaging that you are the biggest, you know, look how stupid you are. I would say we are not having the season that you know. I thought I was going to have at UConn. Now that trade goes down, your mind also probably goes there is a little bit like, you know, man, you could have coached LeBron and Luka on the same team.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n