Lakers: Byron Scott Felt ‘A Little Blindsided’ By His Firing

Ex-Lakers head coach, Byron Scott, recently revealed that he was “a little blindsided” by the team’s decision to let him go

When NBC’s, Dan Patrick, had Byron Scott on his show Monday morning, he jumped right into getting a flashy headline for his video, practically serving as the puppeteer to Byron Scott, the puppet.

Instead of letting Byron tell his story of what went down when the Lakers decided to let him go, Patrick directly led the witness to get the answer he wanted to hear asking, “How blindsided did you feel getting fired.. or, however it played out?”

Scott, probably caught off guard, played directly into Patrick’s hand answering,

"I was a little blinded sided by it. It was one of those things that was unfortunate, you know, especially for me. I had thought that the situation we talked about a few years ago, that they knew that the situation, basically, was going to take a few years, and they had given me the knowledge that, ‘Hey, we’re with you. We’re behind you. We know it’s going to take two or three years to get this kind of turned around.’ So I was a little blindsided by it, but I don’t have any ill will feelings against the organization, I still love the Laker organization and wish them all the best."

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Seeing how the title of the interview on Patrick’s site is “Byron Scott ‘a little blindsided’ by Lakers decision to let him go,” it seems like they already had the title decided on before even having Byron on the show.

Patrick went on to ask, “How would you sum up the last two years,” and to which Byron answered, “Rough, very rough. But that’s what I expected when I took the job.”

Upon listening to the interview, it appeared like Patrick’s sole intent was to get Byron to bad mouth the Lakers so that he could get more listeners, but Scott took the high road and denied him that pleasure.

It would have been nice to hear what Byron had to say about the organization and the future of the franchise without having the lines practically fed to him, but we will just have to wait for another interview for that side of the story.

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Until then we’re left with the unsatisfying Dan Patrick version of the story that Byron was “a little blindsided.”