Dan Hurley confirms financial breakpoint could have made him accept the LA Lakers' offer

Dan Hurley says there was a financial breakpoint at which he would have had to take the Los Angeles Lakers job. However, the six-year, $70 million deal did not meet that point, and he decided to remain the head coach of the Huskies.

It was revealed last week that Hurley was the Lakers' top choice to be their next head coach. However, Hurley rejected the offer to remain with the Huskies, and he got a new deal with UConn.

Hurley says the $70 million deal wasn't enough for him to leave what he has at UConn. However, he says there was a price where he would have had to take it, though he isn't sure what that price would have been.

"The finances to leave a place is definitely a thing, to stay at a place I don't think it will ever be a thing. To stay somewhere like UConn, it would have never been a financial thing, like again this wasn't some pressure tactic to make me the highest-paid college coach. That s*** was already done. To leave all that behind, there probably is a number but I don't know what that is," Hurley said on The Dan LeBatard show.

What exactly the Lakers would have had to offer Hurley is uncertain, but interestingly, the coach says there was a price for him to leave.

Hurley said being close to home where his family is comfortable made it hard for him to leave UConn.

Dan Hurley says he didn't leverage Lakers job to get a bigger UConn deal

Although Dan Hurley decided to remain with the Huskies, some people have suggested he used the Lakers' interest to get more money from UConn.

However, Hurley says that was not the case at all and added that he had a new deal in place before the Lakers' interest was public.

"To me, that is one of the dumbest takes I've heard... One of the worst takes I’ve heard is that this was a leverage play by me to improve my situation at UConn. I don’t need leverage here. We’ve won back-to-back national championships at this place. This was never a leverage situation for me.

"I've had a contract in place here for a couple of weeks, and the financial part in terms of salary has been done for a while. There are some other parts like NIL and staff salary that I wanted adjusted and wasn't comfortable with. But the idea that this was some conspiracy to get a sweeter deal at UConn is lazy."

By remaining with UConn, Hurley is looking to lead the Huskies to a three-peat.