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Dan Hurley Turns Down Lakers

UConn coach Dan Hurley has turned down the Lakers job.

Well, things will certainly be less interesting whoever gets the Lakers job because of Hurley’s intense personality.

Eric Musselman will remain the most “colorful” personality among basketball coaches in town, although who will notice since almost no one cares about USC basketball?

  • Former USC assistant coach Damon Archibald has been hired as an assistant coach at Wisconsin-Green Bay and head coach Doug Gottlieb.

19 thoughts on “Dan Hurley Turns Down Lakers”

  2. Maybe the so-called glitter of Los Angeles is wearing thin these days as players and coaches dare go elsewhere, and with Hurley he might have looked at his $3 million Connecticut house thinking it would take $10 million to replicate it in the L.A market

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    1. The Lakers have run through something like 7 coaches since 2011 when Phil left. The acorn fell farther from the Buss tree than we care to think about.

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  3. Hurley now has a clear parh to snag the NYK or BRK NBA head coaching jobs – smart move hus wife is ftom NJ and who would want to deal with HRH LeBron controlling everything?

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    1. Right. Nobody coaches LeBron. Just like nobody coached Kobe. And when Magic didn’t like Paul Westhead’s offense which emphasized Kareem in the low post, he had him fired. Under these circumstances, the college gig is better.

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  4. Well said Plow Horse….all three cited were all about themselves. Always contracted that with BOS and how they lowered their individual egos and rolled….never understood why all have to refer to these guts by their first names instead of their last. Never heard ‘Bird’ ever called ‘Larry’ or ‘Russell’ as ‘Bill’…Cousy not ‘Bob’

    Michael instead of Jordan….Magic instead of Johnson….Kobe instead of Bryant

    ‘Kobe’ has to be the pitziest name that a fool would call himself. There’s also been an adolescent addiction to what Scully rammed down the nation’s throat’s…his idiocy putting his cutesie ‘..ie’ on names. Scoscia became ‘Scoscie’ Sax became ‘Saxie’ then the 4th member of the Blessed trinity changed ‘scewball’ into ‘scruggie’ now his idiocy is endemic.

    ‘Freddie’ ‘Mookie’ ‘Codie’ ‘Kobe’ hey there’s ‘Bronnie’….the feminization of athletics courtesy of St. Vin-dawg aka “the skull’.

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    1. Interesting take Rusoviet. Never thought about the Laker names contrasted with the Celtics. I do recall that my Marine Corp brother used to become irritated with the (ie) on baseball names. He would say “How old do you have to be before they call you Steve Sax, not Saxie.” He didn’t think it was feminization but prolonged childhood, and baseball is associated with childhood.

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      1. I’d say noting the prolonged adolescence is what feminization is…no need to act like a man better yet let’s call you what your great aunt called you when you were a 5 year old gee that sure sounds mature to me.

        Scully’s idiocy with the ‘screwball’ pitch was fitting to how much he knew his ‘personal’ touch would have on all the rest of broadcast announcers.

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      2. This is fantastic. Where else can you guy going by the name of “rusoviet” complaining about nicknames?

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  5. Five-star QB and No. 1 overall prospect JuJu Lewis was back at USC over the weekend.

    “I love coach Riley,” Lewis said. “He’s my guy.”

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      1. Riley said a few months back that it was going to be all about the defense. So far, with his new defensive coaches, transfers, and recruits he has lived up to that promise. Don’t know if it will work out. Usually a transition like this takes a few years but it appears that Riley is trying and I give him credit for that.

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