Byron Scott

LeBron James wants Luke Walton replaced, so the Lakers should fire him and get on with it. After poaching Walton from the defending champion Golden State Warriors, the Lakers are free to do whatever they want, including what Lakers President Magic Johnson and star player LeBron James want, which seems to be moving from Luke [...]

Sophomore point guard D’Angelo Russell has given the Los Angeles Lakers and their fans plenty to be happy about this season when he’s healthy. He is playing more freely, the offensive IQ is clearly there, and he’s showing flashes of potential superstardom. All those good vibes don’t change the fact that the Lakers passed on [...]

Well, it finally happened: The Los Angeles Lakers fired Byron Scott. This move was inevitable. The timing, however, was a bit bizarre. The news came late Sunday night, long after top head coaching candidates Tom Thibodeau and Scott Brooks signed new deals with the Minnesota Timberwolves and Washington Wizards, respectively. If the Lakers were going [...]

Byron Scott’s spot with the Los Angeles Lakers may be more secure than we initially thought. It’s been assumed for the longest time that the organization would can Scott once Kobe Bryant’s farewell tour ended. He hasn’t seemed to connect especially well with the kiddies, and the Lakers need to usher in a new era [...]

The DeAngelo Russell, Nick Young fiasco may have died down a bit from a media standpoint, but the Lakers are still feeling it in the locker room. Who knows if anyone is even talking to Russell and can you imagine what Young is still going through? According to head coach Byron Scott, Nick Young has [...]

If this was the Los Angeles Lakers’ idea of a birthday present for Byron Scott, I hope they kept the gift receipt. The Lakers lost to the Utah Jazz by a a final score of 123-75 on Monday night, Scott’s birthday. Afterward, he made it clear he was none to pleased with the team’s effort, [...]

Terry Stotts has done a phenomenal job with the Portland Trail Blazers this season—so much so that rival coaches are singing his praises. Here’s Dallas Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle, per ESPN.com’s Royce Young: Carlisle on Terry Stotts: "Right know I think he's frontrunner for Coach of the Year." — Royce Young (@royceyoung) February 25, [...]

At some point the Los Angeles Lakers will have made a decision on head coach Byron Scott’s future. That point just isn’t now. Per the Los Angeles Times‘s Ben Bolch: Will this also be Coach Byron Scott’s final season with the Lakers? The franchise seems torn on whether he’ll return for the third and last [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers are not planning to fire head coach Byron Scott. They’re also not planning not to fire him. Confusing? Sure. Such is life in Hollywood these days, as the Lakers prep for the post-Kobe Bryant era. And while Scott has another guaranteed season left on his deal, he isn’t assured of being [...]

Gary Vitti, the Los Angeles Lakers’ head athletic trainer, wants Kobe Bryant to take a couple of weeks off. Clearly, he should know better. Vitti has worked with the Lakers since before Bryant, so he has been with the Black Mamba for his entire career. He knows by now that convincing Kobe to sit is [...]