Brady Quinn Theorizes That Lebron is the Reason Dan Hurley Did Not Take The Lakers Job

did you guys feel it there was a giant gust of wind from the West Coast yesterday oh Le no no that gust of win was the swing in the Miss for the LA Lakers on Dan Hurley oh and down they go in yeah yeah big time swinging a miss you know what I got to tell you I was dead wrong and I think part of it is is maybe I just in my mind have this misconception of what the Lakers are and how they're viewed I mean are the Lakers not viewed as is that story to a franchise that like you you can't turn down this job this opportunity the history is there the history is there like it's a like they have so much so many great moments great tradition but it kind of has that feeling like Miami football where we remember Miami football as being man they were the you it was it was different and then you look back and you go it's kind of been a long time since they w a real games I know they won the bubble Championship but before that we're talking what 15 years ago like it's not like this is recent success they've had and I just wonder if people look at that as opposed to just the name on the front and everything that comes along with it see to me when I look at the situation it it is a storyed franchise it is uh a franchise that has tremendous relevance even if that relevance is more rooted in in the past it's still a tremendous job and a tremendous franchise um historically speaking and reputationally speaking I just for me I just think that it's it's it's almost like Washington and and how Washington was in football where you you had a foundation built by a different owner and since there's been new ownership that has taken place I just think that there's there is a cultural a cultural situation that has developed in in LA and I just don't know that if you're looking at the last three or four coaches from Byron Scott to Luke Walton to vogle to ham they they don't make it out of four years four years and tops and you're out I just I I think that it is a more V atile job because of how high-profile the the franchise is and if you're not if you're not going to this this team with the idea and the understanding that I have two to four years to get this done and and the likelihood is outside of the last guys that have been here it's probably more on the side that I'm out after four than it is that I'm in I just think that that's a hard if if you have a situation like Hurley I just think that that's a hard decision to make to walk away from stability and success at at that level to go to the next level and have so much uncertainty as to what your future looks like other than there's the strong possibility that I'm going to be out of here in two to four years well think about this though he's turned down two legendary programs or teams Kentucky earlier this offseason stayed with Yukon which you might say well that makes maybe more sense because he's at the college level same level yukon's got a story uh history and tradition as well and and he's built that program up where he'd maybe be having to do something similar to that to Kentucky and I also think that that Dan Hurley's probably overly concerned with this but had he made that move we live in a world in college basketball now where it would have decimated Yukon everything he did at Yukon it could have decimated them because he would could have gotten a lot of those players to transfer immediately to Kentucky and and bring all those players with them which you know maybe he had some feelings about doing that considering the opportunity Yukon gave them the success they've had Etc maybe not who knows but now the Lakers as well and so I look at this and just go all right maybe I'm messed up because I keep looking at this thinking like is this not the Lakers is this not like one of those storyed franchises you have you know shows about movies about I mean is this not the one that if you could bring it back to being at the top of the NBA you would be king in that realm which leads me to think if because because I think those things are right I think it's more of a matter of you know whatever was offered to him whatever the situation that's presented isn't to his liking and and I don't know if that was the contract if they you know couldn't pay him significantly more than he was getting from Yukon in order to persuade him not to be there I I've heard you know people talk about the sting gum tax and maybe that plays a factor even though let's be real it's not like Connecticut doesn't have high taxes too you know I've heard people throw out that theory I I wonder though how much LeBron his impact plays a role in yeah you might interview with Rob pinka but at the end of the day it's still LeBron behind the scenes pulling the strings I don't think he takes the inter interview if he wasn't comfortable with the LeBron James scenario see I think you take it to to figure out what that scenario is I think you find out before you I think you have a a a good idea before you fly out and yeah maybe but but you you've got to hear them too and ask those questions those pointed questions you could you could talk to Rich Paul you could talk to even LeBron but when you go out there you're going to be talking to all the people that the organization you know whether it's Genie bus or Rob pinka or anyone you're looking at him dead in the face and you're saying all right what is the situation here cuz whatever Intel you've gathered you want to confirm you want to see what they say how they react what their answer is I I just I think the general the general poter question is like I just wonder how big of a factor that is in this whole decision-making process to turn this job down yeah I don't know I I I I would just venture to say I would just venture to say he probably did some type of of information gathering before got to the point of saying that I'm going to entertain it just came it just seemed like it came so quickly right the the idea of him getting this job everybody's talking about reic getting the job reic reic reic reic boom Hurley Hurley wasn't even on the odds list remember we WR it off that it wasn't even on anyone's radar so something had to be happening behind the scenes that people weren't totally aware of what was taking place and to the to the tune of him actually going to see what it is that he was going to get himself into to your point q but I just think in the end when you measure it out and he weighed it out it was going to come down to was he comfortable leaving what he's created for this major opportunity at the NBA level or at the University of Kentucky or do you stay put put where it is that you created your systems you have your your you know you have your way of doing things and it's been successful and you got to ask yourself the question I don't I don't know his family situation I don't know there's there's probably a lot more factors that are involved than just the idea of going to the Lakers versus staying at Yukon um in terms of coaching there's probably more but just face value don't you feel like it's just a more stable opportunity for him to have longevity versus taking a chance and a risk even though it's high high reward or it's super high reward but it's super high risk as well sure I just I I think that that might have been I I don't think that it it was anything else other other than that in the end like highrisk high reward like uh but I did that already with Yukon and I've built this so I think I'll stay here which is actually why I think Mak more the case of leaving like look at Nick sain for example wins a national championship at LSU entertains the ability to go to the Miami Dolphins that doesn't work out comes back builds up bigger better and the greatest coach of all time in college football So to that point actually I would actually make the case that it makes more of a sense to be able to then leave and go explore that and hey if you crash and burn all right whatever I know I can build this back up at the college level I've already done it I've already had the most dominant team back-to-back years we've ever seen in the NCA tournament I I I look at it this way and maybe I don't know if we have music for like a conspiracy theory Mysteries do we have that no of course we do does anyone have Robert Stack in a trench coat somewhere walking in a dark alley with some steam billowing out like okay give us give us the conspiracy theory sir well Lavar you bring up a a good point in the sense of if he's doing all this data analysis and everything beforehand it makes me think this it makes me think that maybe he was the candidate all along for the Lakers Organization for a guy like Rob pinka he was there Golden Goose he was the guy they they ultimately really wanted but it wasn't necessarily the guy that LeBron James really wanted and it's why you kept hearing JJ reick and it's why you kept hearing all these reports that it's basically a done deal until after the NBA Finals when reck's done you know serving out his media commitment maybe there's some coaches too he was going to kind of evaluate look at he want he wants to bring on his staff till after that was all the reporting and then Dan Hurley's name pops up so it was LeBron counter punching not the Lakers counter punching well it would have been the Lakers the Lakers were countering LeBron bringing in Dan Hurley as the last second trying to make a last ditch effort and saying maybe they had said to LeBron hey if we can get this guy let's go bring this guy in and Leon is like all right do whatever you want to do but at the end of the day he comes out there he does the interview I think he looks at the situation says no no this has LeBron's fingers all over I can't have the autonomy that I want to be the coach here and do the things I'd like to do so I'm out I'm going back to Yukon maybe that was more of the conspiracy theories you've got two different head coaches that are being put out there in the media because you got two different people behind the scenes trying to make it happen o I have a conspiracy theory to add to it keep the stack music going keep going because LeBron James wants JJ reick and JJ reick wants LeBron James and bronnie James wants both of them when Danny Hurley came out to beautiful Los Angeles California there was a suspicious man that followed Danny Hurley around during the course of his visit in time time as he went to the Strand and went to Manhattan Beach to see the area and went to visit Rob low lookalike um Mr what's his name Rob pinka and that man finally revealed himself to Danny Hurley as a man with special skills skills that would let's just say be used if he decided to in fact accept this LA Lakers job and now that he has not accepted the job his job is done and JJ reck will be the head coach of Los Angeles Lakers bam wow it's into listen bam I mean since we're going here I'd also like a conspiracy that might just be like a theory you know I'd also like to share my conspiracy theory okay so all going to do one I'll do one here let's go I don't think that the interview actually happened what I think wow now that is conspiracy theory so he didn't walk on the moon like a UFO or something I believe that Dan Hurley intended to meet with the Lakers he intended to go oh no to the crypto.com to meet with the Lakers but he couldn't get into the he couldn't get in there because there were too many sleeping bags and tents out in front and he had no way to get to the front door and he said you know what I'm going back to Connecticut this is too much for me thus JJ reck is still in the running to be the head coach of the LA Lakers