Dan Hurley's wife Andrea addresses emotions during Lakers' coaching pursuit: 'Worst week of my life'

Ric Bucher joins Jason McIntyre to discuss LeBron's text exchange with Dan Hurley before he opted to stay with UConn and explains why he is not convinced LeBron will leave the Los Angeles Lakers.

UConn men's basketball head coach Dan Hurley turned down a lucrative six-year contract offer from the Los Angeles Lakers.

Earlier this week, he offered some details about his decision, while making it clear he did not reject the Lakers' offer to gain leverage with UConn. The two-time national championship-winning coach said he had already agreed to terms of a new deal with UConn before he declined the Lakers' offer.

"One of the worst takes I've heard is that this is a leverage play by me to improve my situation at UConn," the Huskies coach said during a recent appearance on "The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz."

Hurley also said his wife Andrea's initial reaction to the rumors that the Lakers had interest in hiring him as the team's next head coach did not go over so well.

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Andrea Hurley listens during a news conference after Dan Hurley was introduced as Connecticut's head coach in March 2018.  (Mark Mirko/Hartford Courant/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

"She was crying in the beginning. I think, initially, the first couple days of it, she got violently angry and emotional, not like hitting me and stuff, not like, ‘Get away from me. I don’t want to consider this. You’re torturing me with this incredible opportunity, you horrible human being,’" Hurley said with a laugh.

But Andrea recently broke her silence on the situation, describing the past several days as "the worst week of my life."

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