Hotline Byron – a Hotline Bling parody video by Nick Angstadt – is the best thing to emerge from Byron Scott’s Lakers coaching tenure.
The lyrics of the song, which is from Mitch Kupchak’s point of view:Byron stopped answering his cell phone
You’d think he would cause I’m his boss
Stopped answering his cell phone
Right after the Philly loss
He knows when that hotline blings
It could only mean one thing
I don’t know what Byron brings
I can’t even name one thing
He just keeps on letting Kobe shoot
Standing with his arms crossed on the sidelines
Randle, Russ, and Nance, JC need playing time
Instead he sits’em down, on the bench, how
Can he just keep on letting Kobe shoot?
Started jackin’ threes, and now he’s playing more
While our second pick sits in the 4th quarter
The Lakers have never looked like this before
Byron stopped answering his cell phone
You’d think he would cause I’m his boss
Stopped answering his cell phone
Right after the Philly loss
He knows when that hotline blings
It could only mean one thing
I don’t know what Byron brings
I can’t even name one thing
He just keeps on letting Kobe shoot,
I don’t think he’s the man out for this job
Even though our interviews were so long
Jimmy Buss and me just had him all wrong
Cause he just keep on letting Kobe shoot
I built him this young nucleus
He’s probably getting a “D-"
Now he benched D’Angelo and Julius
Byron stopped answering his cell phone
I think he knows what’s coming next
Stopped answering his cell phone
Might have to just send a text
He knows when that hotline bling
It can only mean one thing
He know when the phone to rings
He’ll lose those court-side seats
Cause these days all we do is
Try to guess if we’re tanking downwards for someone else
Speculate his lineups and wish that he’d play someone else
Rolling through our twitter feed and wish they’d mention someone else
Russell can’t be himself,
Randle can’t be himself,
Byron, why you always lying
These minutes that you’re supplying,
You just to play for Showtime and now that you’re home,
Please don’t take this wrong, we all wish that you were gone(hat tip: Harrison Faigen of Silver Screen & Roll)