Lakers' low-ball offer for Dan Hurley is exactly what's wrong with the NBA's marquee franchise https://t.co/pxnCh8CrIA
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Lakers’ low-ball offer for Hurley is exactly what’s wrong with franchise
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June 11, 2024 1 Comment
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There is no telling if there was ever a figure Hurley would have taken to coach the Lakers. It’s entirely possible that the chance to win a third consecutive national championship coupled with his deep northeastern roots meant that there was no offer he ever would have taken to coach the Lakers.
But these are the Los Angeles Lakers we’re talking about here. They are the NBA’s marquee franchise, a 17-time champion with all of the resources that come with such a history and the Hollywood glamour that helped create it. There is no world in which their version of an all-in offer for a head coach should be smaller than Detroit’s. That it was shows why Hurley was probably right to pass on this job. The Lakers either don’t understand or are willfully ignoring the league’s current coaching marketplace. If they weren’t willing to pay Hurley market-rate, would they have shelled out for top assistants? Would they have paid for the infrastructure it would have taken for him to implement his entire program?
It’s hard to say. Their recent history suggests the answer is no. The Lakers have always been willing to pay for stars in the past. It just seems as though their standard of a star coach has become impossibly narrow. If they weren’t even willing to pay a Pistons price for Hurley, it’s hard to imagine that they’re ever going to be willing to make the sort of off-court investments it will take to build the sort of sustainable, winning culture they hoped Hurley could bring.