Dan Hurley said his wife, Andrea, “got violently angry” during the Lakers’ courtship of the UConn men’s basketball coach, which transpired into a media circus over the last week. Hurley — who turned down the Lakers’ six-year, $70 million contract offer on Monday to pursue a three-peat with the Huskies — explained how the situation weighed heavily on his family, especially Andrea, who was emotional amid the media frenzy. “She was like crying in the beginning,” Hurley said during an appearance on “The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz” on Thursday.
“I think initially, the first couple days of it, she got violently angry and emotional, not like hitting me and stuff...
she got emotional like, ‘I can’t believe you’re bringing this. Our life is so great..
. it’s perfect. Our lives couldn’t be better and now you’re bringing this s–t.
Warning: Explicit language “Our lives couldn’t be better and now you’re bringing this sh*t?...
she warmed up when she got out there...
...
We have a real beautiful connection here...
in the end, it’s probably the deciding factor.” – Dan Hurley shares how his wife handled this process as well as the reasons he..
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com/hCcQX4mrnp “So, she was bad in the beginning but then she warmed up to it when we got out there and she met [Lakers GM] Rob [Pelinka] and she met Jeanie [Buss] and felt the weather. We drove around Manhattan Beach and just met the people mostly. And she saw the vision of it.
She was i.
