IF he leaves- Is the most likely successor Kimani Young or Luke Murray? Does the guy who doesn't get the job leave with Hurley?
Part of me thinks this is all leverage by Hurley and agent to extract the most money they can out of UConn. $5-7 million a year is a great salary. How much richer does $15 million make you? Rich enough to buy some yachts? Is that something he wants to do?
Money aside, if you watch the NBA game, LA is not the team he wants to coach. Apart from being in the wrong part of the country (NY, Philly or Boston would be better landing spots), their team has two aging, injury prone stars, no really great young players, and are facing a massive long term rebuild. They aren't a championship team now, and will not be for years, whether coached by Hurley, John Wooden, Phil Jackson, or anyone else. The NBA now is about developing young cores of players like the OKC Thunder has done. LA is years of high draft choices away from that. They are capped out and have no flexibility. You can't have two really old and/or very injury prone guys anchoring your team. I believe Hurley is smart enough to see that this isn't the NBA opportunity he wants. Stay at UConn, extract the most money, and leave after a few more championships and being mentioned in the same breath as Wooden.