It was NBA All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles over the last few days, which meant the Lakers and its legendary players were at the center of a lot of conversations — including the late, great Kobe Bryant ...

Byron Scott reflects on witnessing Kobe Bryant’s rise.

Former NBA player and coach Byron Scott is facing a lawsuit from a woman who says he sexually assaulted her in 1987 during an event at her high school. The accuser was 15 at the time, and Scott was 26 ...

In the NBA, firings are usually clean, rehearsed, and corporate. This one was not. Nearly a decade later, the anger behind it still spills out raw, personal, and unresolved.

Former Los Angeles Lakers player and coach Byron Scott is accused in a lawsuit amended earlier this month of sexually assaulting a girl in 1987 when she was 15 and he was 26 during a team event at her ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Before Byron Scott could say a word after being introduced as the chosen coach to carry the Los Angeles Lakers toward a hopeful championship future, several Hall of Fame voices ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Los Angeles Lakers coach Byron Scott ripped his team for yet another lackluster defensive effort Wednesday, saying that he's not yet sure if their issues with stopping teams can even be ...

LOS ANGELES -- Lakers coach Byron Scott, after expressing befuddlement at a flagrant foul called on one of his players in a win Sunday over the Indiana Pacers, said college basketball is more ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Byron Scott's plan for Kobe Bryant this season is more of an ever-changing experiment than a set-in-stone policy. After resting Bryant for three of the Los Angeles Lakers' games ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Six games remain for the Los Angeles Lakers during the worst season in franchise history, but Lakers coach Byron Scott is already targeting which players he wants to keep around ...

LOS ANGELES -- A day after Byron Scott said he knew which of his players he "wouldn't want to be in a foxhole with," the Lakers coach clarified his comments, saying they came out of frustration from ...