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The Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday night announced their decision to decline Byron Scott’s contract option for next season, ended his tenure as Lakers coach after two seasons. Scott’s contract expiring marks the ending of the worst two-year …
With 126 losses in just two seasons on the job, Byron Scott has been nothing short of a cataclysmic disaster as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. But he wants to make sure you realize that, in spite of everything, he still knows much more about …
The Los Angeles Lakers suffered their worst loss of the season Monday night, and head coach Byron Scott was understandably disgusted after the game. The Utah Jazz pummeled the Lakers by a score of 123-75. The 48-point loss is now tied for the biggest …
69 games seems like an awfully long time to take to get a clue. But better late than never, as they say. Lakers head coach Byron Scott vowed on Sunday that he is done benching the team’s young players during fourth quarters, per Bill Oram of …
The Los Angeles Lakers have been so bad this year – and some of Byron Scott’s coaching moves so befuddling – that he had to clarify that the team isn’t tanking. The Lakers actually have some reason to tank. Their first round …
At least we know that one important person has yet to join the Byron Scott Pitchfork Parade: Lakers guard Kobe Bryant. Amidst a disastrous 11-45 campaign, the sheer carnage of which has largely been overshadowed by his own oddball retirement tour, …
Byron Scott has made it clear that he is not the world’s biggest fan of rookie D’Angelo Russell. Russell has been benched multiple times late in games, including once recently for “trying to take over.” The logic doesn’t …
The Los Angeles Lakers would reportedly fire Byron Scott if presented with the opportunity to hire Luke Walton as coach. Stephen A. Smith, speaking to ESPN LA’s Max & Marcellus show, said that the Lakers would get rid of Scott if it meant …
Lakers coach Byron Scott thought D’Angelo Russell would be further along by this point of the season. The second overall pick, who has been frequently hounded by his coach, has been relegated to the bench recently, and Scott admitted that …
Lakers coach Byron Scott benched D’Angelo Russell on Tuesday night for a rather unusual reason. With two and a half minutes to go and the Lakers down two, Scott put Russell back on the bench for what he called “trying to take over the …
Byron Scott did not challenge an Instagram follower to a fight, or so he says. Last week, Scott received a bunch of nasty comments after he (or whoever runs his account) shared a video of the Los Angeles Lakers coach getting a boxing workout in. When …
Byron Scott doesn’t quite seem to be on the same page as Lakers trainers with regards to handling Kobe Bryant’s Achilles injury. Bryant missed a game with a sore right Achilles, and then had to leave the next game early when the soreness …
Lakers head coach Byron Scott grew up in Inglewood, spent the first ten years of his NBA career playing at the Forum in Inglewood for the Lakers, and now coaches in Los Angeles. Surely he’d be excited about the Rams’ impending move to the …
Kobe Bryant has missed the last two games with a sore right shoulder. Now Lakers head coach Byron Scott thinks it’s an ailment that could plague the five-time NBA champion for the remainder of the season. Scott was asked about Bryant’s …
Byron Scott is once again trying to diagnose the many, many problems that are befalling the Los Angeles Lakers. Now he believes that his team is mentally drained. “From a mental standpoint, we just look like we’re fried,” Scott said …
It’s already a given that the Los Angeles Lakers are having a terrible season, but they took their level of poor play to a new low on Saturday. The Lakers were blown out by the Oklahoma City Thunder by 40 points, 118-78 in OKC. It was the …
