Ty Nowell

EL SEGUNDO – The Los Angeles Lakers announced today their roster for the 2016 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, highlighted by 2015 NBA All-Rookie Second Team selection D’Angelo Russell and the 2nd overall pick in this year’s NBA Draft, Brandon Ingram. Joining Russell and Ingram are 2015 Lakers NBA Draft selections Larry Nance Jr. and Anthony Brown, and the team’s 2016 second round pick Ivica Zubac.

The team will hold its first practice next Tuesday, July 5 at the Toyota Sports Center and begin Summer League play in Las Vegas with back-to-back games on Friday, July 8 against the New Orleans Pelicans and Saturday, July 9 versus the Philadelphia 76ers. The Lakers conclude their scheduled games with a contest against new Lakers Head Coach Luke Walton’s former team, the Golden State Warriors, on Monday, July 11 before the Summer League tournament begins. The Lakers are guaranteed to play no fewer than five games.

All Lakers summer league games will be televised on Time Warner Cable SportsNet and Time Warner Cable Deportes, as well as ESPN and NBATV.

Click here to view the Lakers 2016 Summer League Schedule.

Tickets for the Samsung NBA Summer League are on sale now.  Fans can purchase tickets by visiting NBATickets.com.

ASSISTANT COACHES
Mark Madsen, Casey Owens

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Lakers Announce 2016 Summer League Roster

EL SEGUNDO – The Los Angeles Lakers have signed Byron Scott to a multi-year contract as head coach, it was announced today by General Manager Mitch Kupchak. Per team policy, terms of the agreement were not released.

“After an extensive and thorough search, we’re proud to welcome Byron back to the Lakers family as our next head coach,” said Kupchak. “Byron has proven himself at the highest levels of the game as both a player and a coach in his almost 30 years of NBA experience. His leadership skills and track record for success make him the ideal person to lead this franchise forward.”

“I am ecstatic to once again be a Laker and to have the opportunity to work alongside Mitch and the Buss family,” said Scott. “I know firsthand what it takes to bring a championship to this city, and as someone who both grew up in L.A. and played the majority of my career here, I know how passionate and dedicated our fans are. I will give everything I have to fulfill the championship expectations that our supporters have for us, and that we have for ourselves.”

The Inglewood, CA native becomes the 25th head coach in franchise history and 21st in the Los Angeles era, after previously amassing 416 wins over 13 seasons as head coach with the New Jersey Nets (2000-2004), New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets (2004-2009) and Cleveland Cavaliers (2010-2013). Scott began his coaching career as an assistant with the Sacramento Kings for two seasons beginning in 1998.

The 2007-2008 NBA Coach of the Year has led his teams to the postseason four times, including back-to-back NBA Finals appearances with New Jersey in 2002 and 2003. Scott has also served as an NBA All-Star Game head coach on two occasions: 2002 (Eastern Conference) and 2008 (Western Conference).

Among his other coaching achievements, Scott was at the helm for the best season in franchise history of two teams: the 2007-08 Hornets who went 56-26 (.683) and the 2001-02 Eastern Conference Champion Nets who went 52-30 (.634). The ’07-’08 campaign was a 17-win improvement from the previous season in New Orleans, and resulted in an appearance in the Western Conference Semifinals. Scott also saw marked success in his second season with the Hornets during the 2005-06 season, leading the team to a 20-win improvement (the NBA’s best that year) from his first season, despite Hurricane Katrina displacing the team from New Orleans and playing in four different home arenas throughout the season. Scott had a similar impact in his first head coaching stop, improving the Nets by 26 wins between his first and second seasons, marking the sixth-largest improvement in NBA history.

Most recently, Scott was an on-air talent for a variety of Time Warner Cable SportsNet’s studio programming last season, his only full season away from the game as a coach or player since he entered the NBA in 1983.

The 53-year-old Scott enjoyed a 14-year NBA career, 11 of which were spent in purple-and-gold (1983-93 and the 1996-97 season) with stints in Indiana (1993-95) and Vancouver (1995-96) in between. He was a starter on three Lakers championship teams (1985, 1987 and 1988) and made the postseason in all but one of his NBA campaigns, totaling 183 games of playoff experience. One of the marquee shooting guards of his time, starring on the Showtime Lakers, Scott concluded his 1,073-game NBA career with averages of 14.1 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game, highlighted by his 1987-88 season where he achieved career-high per game averages of 21.7 points, 4.1 rebounds and 4.1 assists.

The Morningside High School alumnus originally became a Laker on October 16, 1983 when the San Diego Clippers (who had drafted him with the 4th overall pick of the 1983 NBA Draft four months earlier) traded him along with Swen Nater to L.A. in exchange for Eddie Jordan, Norm Nixon and a second round pick. The Arizona State product saw his NBA playing career come full-circle after signing as a free agent prior to the 1996-97 season (his last in the league) when the 35-year-old shooting guard mentored an 18-year-old rookie Kobe Bryant.

Off the court, the father of three dedicates time to his non-profit organization, The Byron Scott Children’s Fund, with proceeds going to various children’s charities.

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Lakers Announce Hiring of Byron Scott as Head Coach

EL SEGUNDO – The Los Angeles Lakers announced today their invitees and schedule for the 2014 Samsung NBA Summer League. The Summer League entry is expected to feature Los Angeles’ two selections from the 2014 NBA Draft: first round pick Julius Randle (7th overall) and second round pick Jordan Clarkson (46th overall). Other highlights of the squad include returning Laker Kendall Marshall, who started 45 games for the purple-and-gold last season, averaging 8.0 points and 8.8 assists per contest, and four-year NBA veteran Rodrigue Beaubois, who has played in 182 career games (54 starts) over four seasons.

The team will hold its first practice next Monday, July 7 at the Toyota Sports Center, and will officially tipoff Summer League play Friday, July 11 in Las Vegas against the Toronto Raptors at 3:00 p.m.

For the second consecutive year, the event will feature a tournament-style schedule, culminating in the crowning of the Samsung NBA Summer League 2014 Champion on Monday, July 21.  Each of the participating teams will play three games apiece between July 11 and 15 before being seeded in the tournament, which tips off on July 16 and runs through the Championship Game on July 21.  Each team will play no fewer than five games.

All Lakers summer league games will be televised on Time Warner Cable SportsNet as well as NBA TV.

Tickets for Samsung NBA Summer League are on sale now.  Fans can purchase tickets by visiting NBATickets.com, or by calling 702-739-FANS.

ASSOCIATE HEAD COACHES: Larry Lewis (Morehouse), Mark Madsen (Stanford)

ASSISTANT COACHES: Tom Bialaszewski (SUNY Fredonia), Clay Moser (Wisconsin-La Crosse), JJ Outlaw (Villanova)

ATHLETIC TRAINERS:   Marco Nunez (Cal Poly Pomona), Nina Hsieh (Cal State Fullerton)

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Lakers Announce 2014 Summer League Invitees and Schedule

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