"I was like, 'Wow,' when considering the conversations that we had before I even signed to become the coach," Scott said. Scott also said he wants to see newly hired Lakers Coach Luke Walton succeed. The text message from Lakers General Manager Mitch Kupchak arrived on a lazy Sunday afternoon, as Byron Scott was relaxing and baby sitting his granddaughters. "I didn't really think nothing of the meeting," Scott recalled on Tuesday. Sure, Scott said, his mind began to race a bit as he drove to the meeting on April 24.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 10, 2016 19:14 UTC