Steve Nash has been out of sight around the Los Angeles Lakers since being ruled out for the entire season.

Byron Scott and Mitch Kupchak said they hoped Nash would serve as a mentor and de facto shooting coach for younger players.

That scenario has yet to take place, and Scott said he cannot even get Nash to return a phone call.

“If my coach would have called me,” Scott said, “I definitely would have called him back.”

Scott tried to downplay that as any kind of issue, saying he was “not angry at all.”

“I’ll try him again when I get some more free time tomorrow or Monday or something like that. I know he’s probably going through a tough time as far as trying to adjust to life without basketball at this particular point.”

Asked if he expected Nash to be around at all this season, Scott said, “I don’t know. I would like him to, but I don’t know.”