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Coaching the Lakers is a hard job to pass up, except maybe Dan Hurley should

Earlier this week, during an appearance on The Mike Francesa Podcast, UConn’s Dan Hurley left open the possibility of one day leaving for the NBA.

The coach of college basketball’s two-time reigning national champs said that UConn fits him perfectly but that he does aspire to test himself at the highest level “if the right NBA situation were to come along.”

When Francesa expressed surprise, Hurley elaborated on what the “right situation” meant to him. He said it had to be a job “where an organization wants a tone setter to come in and instill a culture.