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🏀 Good morning to everybody, however particularly to …

THE UCONN HUSKIES

The very best coach in males’s faculty basketball is not going anyplace, and neither is his two-time reigning-champion program. Dan Hurley spurned a reported six-year, $70 million supply from the Lakers to remain at UConn.

Hurley emerged as the highest contender for Los Angeles’ emptiness final week, and we spilled loads of (digital) ink on why he’d be an awesome match with the Lakers due to his artistic, fashionable offense. He calls for excellence and will get it.

He will proceed getting it at UConn, making UConn an apparent “winner” in our winners and losers column. The Huskies — in search of the primary three-peat since 1967-73 UCLA — have a robust group for Hurley to guide.

• Alex Karaban returned after testing NBA Draft waters.
• Hassan Diarra and Samson Johnson had been key position gamers on final yr’s workforce, and Solomon Ball and Jaylin Stewart ought to step up.
• UConn added key transfers Aidan Mahaney (Saint Mary’s) and Tarris Reed (Michigan), ranked fortieth and eightieth, respectively, in Kyle Boone’s switch portal rankings.
• Liam McNeeley, Ahmad Nowell and Isaiah Abraham are incoming freshmen. All three had been top-100 recruits per 247Sports, with McNeeley, a late addition, ranked tenth.

Gary Parrish says Hurley made the appropriate determination. It is an enormous win for faculty basketball — superstars staying put is at all times good for a league, and Hurley is a famous person coach — and I am unable to wait to see what Hurley and his workforce have in retailer.

👍 Honorable mentions

🏀 And never such an excellent morning for …

THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS

In shedding out on Hurley, the Lakers embarrassed themselves twofold.

The primary failure is the numbers hooked up to the headline. Six years and $70 million? It is a massive supply till you notice Erik Spoelstra bought eight years and $120 million from the Warmth. Steve Kerr, Gregg Popovich and Ty Lue all make extra per yr than the Lakers provided Hurley. Heck, even the Pistons — the Pistons! — gave Monty Williams a fatter deal.

The Lakers are value greater than double the Pistons, in line with Forbes. And so they’ve shelled out earlier than. Phil Jackson was a top-paid coach. Los Angeles was keen to pay Mike Krzyzewski and, earlier than that, Jerry Tarkanian high greenback.

Now? This low-ball supply proves what’s fallacious with the league’s marquee franchise, Sam Quinn writes.

• Quinn: “There isn’t a world through which their model of an all-in supply for a head coach needs to be smaller than Detroit’s. That it was exhibits why Hurley was most likely proper to move on this job. The Lakers both do not perceive or are willfully ignoring the league’s present teaching market. In the event that they weren’t keen to pay Hurley market-rate, would they’ve shelled out for high assistants? Would they’ve paid for the infrastructure it could have taken for him to implement his total program?”

The second failure is with the Lakers’ search as a complete. Earlier than the Hurley bombshell, the reported frontrunner was JJ Redick, a former participant who has by no means coached. So what is the path? What is the plan? It is clear they’ve neither, Invoice Reiter opines.

• Reiter: “The Lakers appear as a substitute to be working as if hiring an NBA head coach is like scrolling by way of Netflix for a film on a Friday night time. A ‘let’s simply see what grabs us’ is not precisely a sound option to run an NBA group. There are penalties for this type of slipshod, public, throw-it-against-the-wall-and-see-if-it-sticks strategy.”

Does Los Angeles sheepishly circle again to Redick? Pursue James Borrego, who may have loads of suitors? Jasmyn Wimbish has the most recent on a whirlwind teaching search.

👎 Not so honorable mentions

🏒 Panthers take 2-0 Stanley Cup Remaining lead behind unlikely hero

The Oilers could not beat Sergei Bobrovsky on any of their 32 photographs on purpose in Recreation 1, so when Mattias Ekholm scored on Edmonton’s first try on track in Recreation 2, issues had been wanting up.

As an alternative, that was Edmonton’s high-water mark. For a second straight recreation, the Panthers stifled the Oilers’ assault and bought loads of offense, successful 4-1 to take a 2-0 collection lead.

• Niko Mikkola tied issues within the second interval. Moments after almost placing the puck in his personal web, Mikkola fired previous Stuart Skinner on the frenzy for simply his second purpose of the playoffs.
• Then got here the Evan Rodrigues present within the third interval. First, he regained possession deep in Florida’s offensive zone, and his deflected shot beat Skinner stick aspect to offer the hosts the lead.
• He doubled the lead 9 minutes afterward the ability play with a terrific redirect. It snapped Edmonton’s streak of 34 consecutive energy performs killed.
• Rodrigues now has three targets within the Stanley Cup Remaining. He had three within the Panthers’ prior 17 postseason video games.
• Aaron Ekblad offered an empty-netter to offer Florida its second straight three-goal win.

The Panthers are the fifty fifth workforce to take a 2-0 Stanley Cup Remaining lead. Of the earlier 54, 49 have lifted the Cup. Issues are wanting good for the Panthers forward of their lengthy flight to Edmonton.

⛳ U.S. Open storylines, sleepers, extra

Scottie Scheffler is the story going into the U.S. Open. He has received 5 of his final eight begins. He is doing stuff that hasn’t been performed in a long time. He is the overwhelming favourite.

However as Kyle Porter writes in his high storylines, do not sleep on a number of the world’s greatest not named Scheffler.

• Porter: “It is Collin Morikawa — not Scheffler, nor Xander Schauffele nor Rory McIlroy nor anybody else — who has been within the remaining pairing on Sunday at each the Masters and the PGA Championship to this point this yr. In idea, the U.S. Open needs to be the key he performs the most effective, too. …  If Morikawa has been forgotten, Brooks Koepka is barely remembered. Koepka’s finishes on the final six U.S. Opens through which he is performed appear to be this: Win, Win, 2nd, T4, fifty fifth, T17.”

Patrick McDonald, in the meantime, has some deeper sleepers in addition to 9 golfers you must root for. One participant makes each lists.

• McDonald: “Sahith Theegala — Enjoying within the penultimate pairing Sunday, the free-swinging proper hander skilled his first style of main rivalry earlier than falling off the tempo to a T12 end. A pleasant outcome at Memorial has set the stage for Theegala’s arrival at Pinehurst the place his creativity and shot making ought to permit him to get within the combine.”

Lastly, Kyle breaks down 5 issues to learn about Pinehurst No. 2, which he says “has stood the take a look at of time and stays one of many crown jewels on this nation.”

⚽ Golazo 100: Growing older stars spotlight No. 40-21

We’re nearing the highest of our Golazo 100 countdown. We hit on gamers ranked fortieth to twenty first Monday, with some growing older stars displaying they nonetheless bought it.

• 40. Luka Modric, midfield, Actual Madrid — “Modric is used sparingly by Carlo Ancelotti in La Liga, however within the UCL his means to alter video games can nonetheless come in useful.”
• 36. Cristiano Ronaldo, ahead, Al-Nassr — “A 35-goal league season in Saudi Arabia helps and will tee him up properly to play a extra significant position with the Portuguese in Germany than he did on the FIFA 2022 World Cup.”
• 22. Toni Kroos, midfield, Actual Madrid — “Kroos delivered one masterclass after one other over the course of the 2023-24 season … He’ll simply go down as one among his era’s greatest gamers, and can be missed.”

There’s loads of younger expertise, too (on this considerably biased author’s opinion, Cole Palmer is underrated, even at thirtieth), and James Benge wrote on gamers who may crack subsequent yr’s high 100, together with …

• Benge: “Warren Zaire-Emery, Paris Saint-Germain — It may appear too early for the French workforce to make room for an 18-year-old, however a lot the identical was mentioned when Zaire-Emery was breaking into the Paris Saint-Germain workforce, the teenager firmly establishing himself as an answer for what had been the champions nice drawback place for thus lengthy.“

📺 What we’re watching Tuesday

⚾ Phillies at Crimson Sox, 7:10 p.m. on TBS
🏀 Lynx at Aces, 10 p.m. on NBA TV