Nick Younger as soon as stated of his falling out with former Lakers teammate D’Angelo Russell, “I can’t be mad forever.”
Perhaps that’s nonetheless true.
However Swaggy P’s grudge towards DLo seems to be going sturdy greater than eight years after Russell secretly recorded Younger discussing ladies aside from then-fiancée Iggy Azalea in a video that one way or the other later grew to become public.
Younger had a powerful obvious response Sunday to Russell being traded from the Lakers to the Brooklyn Nets for the second time in seven years.
“AND STAY OUT,” Younger wrote on X. “Dnt bring yo ass back to LA.”
AND STAY OUT… Dnt deliver yo ass again to LA
— Nick Younger (@NickSwagyPYoung) December 30, 2024
Russell was chosen by the Lakers with the No. 2 total decide within the 2015 draft. As a rookie, he grew to become associates with Younger, a veteran participant in his ninth NBA season and third with the Lakers.
At one level that season, nevertheless, Russell recorded a dialog of theirs with out Younger’s data. Months later, that video appeared on a celeb gossip social media feed. Russell stated on the time he had no thought how that occurred.
“We play around and we joke and we laugh and we say things that you don’t really repeat,” Russell informed reporters March 31, 2016. “That was just an incident of just ‘playing too much goes wrong.’ I take the full blame for that, recording the video. But leaking the video wasn’t me.”
Lakers Nick Younger and D’Angelo Russell converse with the media earlier than tipoff towards Miami.
“We’ll be able to work it out,” Younger stated. “We’ve already been working it out. It is what it is. I can’t be mad forever.”
Younger has addressed the matter in his present position as a daily on the “Gil’s Arena” podcast. Requested in November why he didn’t bodily confront Russell on the time, Younger stated then-Lakers common supervisor Mitch Kupchak and group safety prevented him from coming into contact with Russell till the scenario had cooled over.
Each gamers left the Lakers in the course of the 2017 offseason, Younger as a free agent and Russell in a commerce with the Nets. Younger performed two extra seasons, with the Golden State Warriors and Denver Nuggets. Russell grew to become an All-Star in his second season with the Nets, then performed with the Warriors and Minnesota Timberwolves earlier than returning to the Lakers in February 2023.
Russell helped the Lakers attain the Western Convention finals that season and set the group file for many made threes in a season with 226 the next yr. However he misplaced his beginning position early this season and noticed his minutes drop as properly, resulting in this weekend’s deal that despatched Russell, Maxwell Lewis and three future second-round picks to Brooklyn for Dorian Finney-Smith and reserve guard Shake Milton.
