BYRON SCOTT IS A SERIAL TEAM KILLER

Scott coached three teams before he came to the Lakers. He got fired each time. What was said about him after each firing sounds eerily familiar to Lakers fans, and particularly as it relates to Scott's use of Jeremy Lin. 

I took short clips from newspapers in each city the day Scott was fired. Here's a sampling: 

NJ Nets, 2004: "... the Nets lost a 47-point decision to the Memphis Grizzlies and Kidd screamed at Scott and the coaching staff in the locker room after the game - adding fuel to the rumors and reports that the All-Star point guard didn't think much of Scott as a coach."

New Orleans, 2009. David West: "I just think that we had gotten to the point where things that we were doing just weren't working...Amongst the team I think there was a sense [that] a few guys weren't trusting what we had in terms of our system and our ability to know what we were going to get every single night from our system."

Cleveland, 2013: "Scott came under fire for a number of in-game decisions about substitutions and timeouts, among other things. His team ranked last in defense...his team blew leads of 27, 26 and 22 points in losses to Miami, Phoenix, and New York, respectively."

It certainly looks to me like Scott has not learned a thing since his first firing in 2004. He's making the same old mistakes with the Lakers. And after all these years, he still doesn't know how to relate to players not named Kobe. His handling of Lin alone is enough reason to show his ass to the door. 

It won't happen this year, probably not next. But eventually Scott will get fired because he's a serial team killer. And that's the one thing Scott does best: kill teams.