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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 …
Byron Scott was the first to know that Kobe Bryant would be retiring after the season. As it turns out, he found out during the middle of a game when Bryant abruptly informed him. Scott said on Friday that Bryant casually informed Scott of his …
Lakers head coach Byron Scott seems to be Public Enemy No. 1 in the basketball world these days. Most of it is merited with the team at 2-14 on the year as Scott provides a never-ending litany of questionable rotation decisions, head-scratching …
Kobe Bryant’s role won’t be getting scaled back anytime soon, at least according to Byron Scott. “I would never, never, never do that,” the Lakers coach told ESPN’s Baxter Holmes on Friday about the possibility of …
Byron Scott is under fire again, this time for leaving Kobe Bryant in for 37 minutes in another Lakers loss Friday night. With the Lakers down 13 and seven minutes left, Bryant had already logged 31 minutes. Scott left him in anyway, and he ended up …
The Los Angeles Lakers finished with a 21-61 record last season and were one of the worst teams in the NBA. Through 11 games this year, it looks like they could be headed for similar results. After a blowout loss to the Phoenix Suns Monday night, …
The Lakers used the second overall pick in June’s NBA Draft on D’Angelo Russell, but they aren’t giving him fourth quarter minutes, and Russell can’t explain why. The Lakers were blown out by Miami 101-88 on Tuesday, with the …
Problems are running deep for the 1-5 Los Angeles Lakers. But sagacious head coach Byron Scott thinks that he has identified the one central issue. In advance of Tuesday’s game against the Miami Heat, Scott, per Ethan J. Skolnick of the Miami …
With his absurd wingspan, sweet shooting stroke, refined instincts, and putback dunks of fertility, 20-year-old Knicks big man Kristaps Porzingis has quickly emerged as a top contender for the 2015-16 Rookie of the Year Award. Though the Latvian was …
The Los Angeles Lakers are 0-4 to start the season, and it’s clear the players are not happy about that. Lakers head coach Byron Scott said Wednesday that some players got into a “verbal altercation” on the bench towards the end of …
Emmanuel Mudiay had a strong game for the Denver Nuggets in the team’s 120-109 win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday, and it gave the first-round pick an opportunity to zing Byron Scott. The Lakers were looking for a point guard in the …
The Lakers are going to be a mess of overlapping ball-dominant guards next season, and head coach Byron Scott is scrambling for ways to even out what could be a very unbalanced rotation. One of Scott’s bright ideas could be to deploy Kobe …
Byron Scott has been critical of Nick Young throughout the NBA season, and that continued on Saturday when he talked about the injured guard. Young, who missed the beginning of the season with a thumb injury, is expected to be out the rest of the …
The Los Angeles Lakers are one of the worst teams in the NBA, and the fact that they have Kobe Bryant is no longer helping. Bryant will turn 37 this summer and cannot stay healthy. How is a 19-53 team with an aging superstar planning to attract free …
When Jason Kidd had some of the best seasons of his career, Byron Scott was his coach. Scott helped lead the New Jersey Nets to back-to-back NBA Finals appearances in 2002 and 2003, when Kidd averaged a career-high 18.7 points per game. That does not …
One of the more mystifying plays from the weekend came on Friday night when Kobe Bryant went nuts on Jeremy Lin for not fouling Grizzlies point guard Mike Conley in the final seconds of their game. Lin knew how silly the decision not to foul was and …
