It was only a matter of time until Byron Scott became head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, as ESPN's Chris Broussard first reported Scott will soon be. He probably would've been in 2011, when Phil Jackson retired, had Scott not already subsumed himself in the Cleveland Cavaliers' between-two-LeBrons mess.
Three years later, Scott's slip into the Lakers' top job looks more inevitable than ever.
He'd already occupied a comfortable seat in the studio for the team's TV broadcasts. Not once did his name come up in consideration for all the other openings across the NBA this summer. All the while, the rest of the Lakers' targets (i.e. Lionel Hollins, Quin Snyder, Derek Fisher, Alvin Gentry, etc.) jumped on offers elsewhere as L.A. slow-played its hiring process.
Nobody other than Scott was granted a third interview. Heck, by the time Scott came in for that third sitdown with Lakers brass, all the other openings around the league had been filled.
It's no wonder, then, that Scott's return to the sidelines in L.A. feels more like a marriage of convenience than an honest-to-goodness love affair. But while Scott ma ...
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Byron Scott May Not Be L.A. Lakers’ Long-Term Answer, but He Doesn’t Have to Be
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