Tom Izzo gave Dan Hurley advice after Lakers offered UConn coach $70M, 6-year contract in 2024
Tom Izzo has turned down multiple opportunities to coach in the NBA, including with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Atlanta Hawks. When the Los Angeles Lakers were willing to give UConn coach Dan Hurley a $70 million, six-year contract in 2024, Hurley asked Izzo for advice. “I told him to seriously look at it because I could see where college basketball was going,” Izzo told The Associated Press on Monday.
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Tom Izzo has turned down multiple opportunities to coach in the NBA , including with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Atlanta Hawks . When the Los Angeles Lakers were willing to give UConn coach Dan Hurley a $70 million, six-year contract in 2024, Hurley asked Izzo for advice.
“I told him to seriously look at it because I could see where college basketball was going,” Izzo told The Associated Press on Monday. “But I said, I would hate to lose him because I think he's all that is right about college basketball. He cares about the kids.
He cares about the game. He has to care about the game because of his dad. ” Bob Hurley Sr.
won more than two dozen state championships at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, New Jersey, developing dozens of Division I college players. Izzo and third-seeded Michigan State will face Hurley and the second-seeded Huskies in Washington on Friday night in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament .