The times, they are a changing for the Los Angeles Lakers, and former coach Byron Scott has taken the opportunity to express his thoughts on the team’s recent moves. In the span of a day, the Lakers announced that they were parting ways with longtime general manager Mitch Kupchak and Jim Buss, who together helmed the team’s basketball operations department.
In their place, they hired Lakers legend Magic Johnson to take over the department and will soon add former agent Rob Pelinka to become the team’s new general manager. Scott, a former teammate of Johnson’s during the Showtime era, appeared on ESPN to give his two cents on the moves:
“Right now, it let’s everybody in the league know that the Lakers are for real again.