You can count Byron Scott among those who think there’s a really good chance that LeBron James joins the Los Angeles Lakers next summer. Scott spoke to TMZ about the best basketball player in the world’s impending free agency, and was asked the question on every Lakers fan’s mind: What are the odds they are able to convince James to come to the city of angels?
In Scott’s eyes, there’s a 50/50 chance. Not of James leaving the Cavaliers, but rather, of James becoming a Laker. These odds are, um, rather optimistic, but as you can see in the video, Scott is optimistic about a number of things facing Los Angeles over the next few months.
Giving James 50/50 odds of leaving Cleveland during the summer of 2018 would have been looking at things through rose-colored glasses at this point, but saying there is a 50 percent chance that he comes to the Lakers and a 50 percent chance that he does literally anything else is something else.
Scott also said that he wants to see Paul George, who has been long-rumored to have his sights set on his hometown Lakers, in the purple and gold, and would love to see what Lonzo Ball could do alongside those two stars.
“You bring players of that high caliber around him, he’s gonna do what he does which is facilitate the ball,” Scott said. “Those guys love people that pass the ball.”
James, at the very least, is a well-documented fan of the rookie point guard, and it would objectively be fun to see Ball flanked by the two All-Star forwards on the fast break. As for whether that happens, well, who knows. But one thing is for sure — saying there’s a 50 percent chance that James becomes a Laker probably isn’t accurate right now. I guess Scott is proof that even though his tenure as the team’s head coach went awry, you’re always a Laker.
