Free agent Byron Scott, who hoped to end his career with the Los Angeles Lakers, has instead agreed in principle on a two-year contract to play in Greece.
The Lakers will not offer Scott the $326,750 permitted under the NBA salary cap, general manager Mitch Kupchak said.Scott, 36, was willing to turn down the deal to play in Greece in order to stay in his hometown of Los Angeles, but the Lakers wouldn't commit to offering him a deal.
"We could have misled him or strung him along," Kupchak told the Los Angeles Times.
"But it would not be good to tell him something right now and then decide to go in another direction in a couple weeks after he had passed up what seems to be a great way to continue his career, with the dollars they are apparently talking about."
The veteran shooting guard is expected to sign the two-year deal with Panathinaikos AC of Athens.