Byron Scott

Kobe Bryant is done for the season. Probably. Initial assumptions were confirmed Monday, when the Lakers announced that Kobe would undergo shoulder surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff: [tweet https://twitter.com/Lakers/status/559807630370025472] At 36, with only one-year left on his deal, having faced roadblock after roadblock after roadblock, it stands to reason that Kobe would consider [...]

Reminders that Kobe Bryant is old, and getting even older still, have been out in full force this season. Here’s another one. Speaking with the Los Angeles Times‘ Bill Plaschke, the 36-year-old admitted that walking away from the NBA and Los Angeles Lakers after this season has been something he’s thought about: “I’d be lying [...]

So this is why Byron Scott doesn’t have Kobe Bryant practice regularly. Here we all were thinking it was to offset the minutes that the 36-year-old Bryant is playing, yet totally shouldn’t be playing. Kobe leads the league in minutes played. At 36. Nineteen years into his career. For a six-win Los Angeles Lakers team. [...]

Come join Lakers head coach Byron Scott on this limb, won’t you? It’s fantastically flimsy and precariously situated between a raging inferno and toxic-smog factory, all of which are perched above perilous waters rife human-guzzling crocodiles. What’s that? Oh, you won’t be joining him? Only Kobe Bryant will? Okay, then. Scott has touched on some [...]

The opening night game between the visiting Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers will be tipping off in less than 12 hours, but the Lakers’ head coach Byron Scott already gave out the first blow as he was recently asked about the failed partnership between Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard just two seasons ago [...]

Nothing like carrying the weight of the Los Angeles Lakers’ world on your shoulders at 36 years old, eh Kobe Bryant? Everyone is waiting for Bryant’s second return. Everyone. Even if you hate him, you want to see him; you want to know if he still has it or not. It’s human nature. And Bryant [...]

Byron Scott’s hire with the Los Angeles Lakers has been years in the making. So says Magic Johnson, anyway. The Lakers legend claims that the late owner told him he wanted Scott to coach the team someday, per For The Win’s Josh Peter: Byron Scott says he’s patient. But if he’d been more patient, he [...]

Kobe Bryant will see all the NBA free-agency rumors ever and raise you one Los Angeles Lakers coaching endorsement. Speaking at a press conference during his annual basketball camp in Santa Monica, the Black Mamba offered a ringing coaching endorsement on Byron Scott’s behalf, per ESPN Los Angeles’ Dave McMenamin: [tweet https://twitter.com/mcten/statuses/487012968966529025] [tweet https://twitter.com/mcten/statuses/487013217441304577] Scott [...]

This Los Angeles Lakers coaching search hasn’t been much fun. All along, the assumption was that the Lakers would make a splash by inking a big, flashy, oh-my-god-did-they-really-sign-him? name. Instead of action and visions of grandeur, though, there have been the same old recurrent, drab rumors that have them interviewing prospective candidates like Mike Dunleavy, [...]

Kobe Bryant is going to be one happy camper. According to ESPN’s Chris Broussard, the Los Angeles Lakers interviewed Byron Scott for their head coach position on Tuesday. Personally, I’m not sure what impresses me more: The fact that the Lakers are entertaining a coaching prospect Kobe is known to love, or that the team [...]