Lakers' Scott on Kevin Durant: 'I would love for him to play with Kobe too'
Byron Scott and the Los Angeles Lakers may be getting a call from the NBA in the near future.
After Kevin Durant said earlier this week that he would want to play with a player like Kobe Bryant - while calling reports that players don't want to play with Kobe "BS" - Scott threw his support behind a Durant-Bryant pairing with comments on Friday.
Durant said he'd love to play with Kobe. Byron Scott: "I would love for him to play with Kobe too. Especially from a coaching standpoint."
— Baxter Holmes (@BaxterHolmes) December 20, 2014
The issue, of course, is that Durant is under contract with the Oklahoma City Thunder through the end of the 2015-16 season.
If the league does take action against Scott and the Lakers, it wouldn't be the first time Durant's 2016 free agency has caused some trouble. The Toronto Raptors were fined $25,000 in August after hip hop superstar Drake - the team's Global Ambassador - asked a Toronto concert crowd how it would react if Durant played for the Raptors.