The L.A. Lakers will have to have UCONN head coach Danny Hurley, and irrespective of a fat new contract and a possibility to go back-to-back-to-back, the coveted mentor will have to hearken to Lake Present execs, in line with Dan Dakich, preceding Indiana University participant and coach.

Dakich, host of Outkick’s “Do not @ Me,” joined Babcock on “TMZ Sports activities things to do” (airs nightly on FS1) on Thursday — solely a number of hours immediately after information of the Purple and Gold’s curiosity in Hurley rocked the basketball planet — and we asked for the longtime participant, coach, and media character about the bigtime development.

“Nicely, you acquired to pay back awareness. You acquired to fork out awareness. I indicate, you are talking the maximum-compensated NBA mentor is [making] 17 and a half million. I do not give a rattling. You purchased to pay back attention,” Dan talked about.

The query is … would Danny and the Lakers even be a fantastic match?

Hurley, born and raised in New Jersey, has spent almost his whole existence on the East Coastline. Danny starred at St. Anthony’s H.S. beneath popular coach and father, Bob Hurley Sr., just before than heading to Seton Corridor Univ. in South Orange, NJ, the place he carried out for P.J. Carlesimo.

Southern California, it seems to be, is a lot, distant from Jersey, and the Northeast.

“It may well be dangerous,” Dakich began off, previously than stopping himself … “Not dangerous, it may be a singular match.”

“He is the epitome, Mike, of a Jersey East Coast male. I suggest, he’s from the bingo corridor in Jersey Metropolis. Unexpectedly you are going to L.A., even so Danny Hurley, he can adapt. And he would adapt.”

Dakich, an Indiana Basketball Corridor of Famer who accomplished underneath the popular Bobby Knight, earlier than educating at his alma mater (collectively with Bowling Inexperienced), talked about it would be important for Hurley to search for out out the place the group concepts to go about the subsequent handful of a extended time … as LeBron James will get nearer to retirement.

“[Danny] has to find out out the location the team is, the place LeBron is, the place is the team with LeBron. And if he will get the acceptable alternatives and he feels cozy, I suggest, why not? He can at all occasions return to varsity,” Dan described.

“Look, Mike, if he flamed out in two yrs in the NBA, each individual school in The us can be dying to rent him.”

Right immediately after all, that is no shocker contemplating Hurley has a 141-58 at UCONN … and has acquired two straight NCAA championships.

The Lakers have been conducting a education analysis for the reason that supplying Darvin Ham the boot quickly immediately after shedding to the Nuggets in just the to begin with spherical of the NBA playoffs. JJ Redick, Bron’s podcast co-host, was reportedly the primary inside of the clubhouse for the occupation … on the other hand it seems like that is modified.

In accordance with encounters, the Lakers are readying an tremendous, extended-time period supply for Hurley … and whereas the UCONN head mentor (for now, at the incredibly the incredibly least) hasn’t publicly commented on the lookup, he did affirm to his crew that he was speaking to the Lakers.

There’s extra.

Ought to Danny only look at the perform if James commits to staying and possessing element in in L.A.? Will DH truly pull the set off and obtain the gig?