Nick Young

The new season hasn’t even started yet and the Los Angeles Lakers have already started to fill out the injury list as their leading scorer last season—Nick Young recently sprained his right thumb during practice, according to Mike Bresnahan of the LA Times. Young, 29, signed a four-year, $21.5 million contract in July to remain [...]

If the press could manage to be more optimistic about a team with a 40-year old point guard, a 36-year old shooting guard, and a new coach, who hasn’t had a winning record since 2009, I haven’t seen it (at least not lately). New Head Coach of the Los Angeles Lakers Byron Scott: Welcome home! [...]

Just because the Los Angeles Lakers don’t have much to play for this season, that hasn’t stopped Nick Young from putting on for his city in sought-after sneakers. Looking to out-Foamposite himself from his on-court debut of the black ‘Supreme’ Foamposite One last week, Swaggy P keeps the swagoo drippin by breaking out the infamous [...]

There isn’t much positive going for the Los Angeles Lakers right now. By the numbers, this current 2013-14 Lakers team is in position to end the season as the worst team in franchise history. Nick Young is one of the bigger sneaker aficionados in the NBA right now and secured the black pair of the [...]

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Never say Mike D’Antoni doesn’t have faith in his players. Nick Young has been everything the Los Angeles Lakers expected him to be. Or rather, what they should have expected him to be. Inconsistent, deadly, maddening—he’s been Nick Young, the player you can never quite comprehend. Magic Mike, however, is trying to put a label [...]

A diminished version of Kobe Bryant is better than no Kobe Bryant. That’s the stance Los Angeles Lakers head coach Mike D’Antoni is taking. To an extent, it’s one that he’s always took. He hasn’t allowed Kobe’s absence to dominate post-game pressers nor has he entertained the prospect of his uncertain return more than he [...]

Dwight Howard’s departure looks good on Mike D’Antoni and Pau Gasol. Following a 31-point beat down handed to them by the Golden State Warriors, the Los Angeles Lakers are 1-1 on the season. Which is fine. They were supposed to be 0-2, having opened the year against the Los Angeles Clippers. Emerging victorious from one [...]

If this Lakers’ season were a new movie, what would you call it? “Escape Plan?” Oh, wait D-12 already did that. “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?” Or maybe “Prisoners,” to describe the Lakers fans and perhaps Bryant, himself. As the Lakers prepare to start the 2013-2014 season without veteran 5-time NBA champion and [...]

Halfway thru the 2013 NBA preseason, the Los Angeles Lakers look better than many expected even playing without 5-time NBA champion and 15-time All-Star Kobe Bryant. Thru four games, the Lakers are 2-2 against Golden State, Denver (twice), and Sacramento. Playing without 17-year Lakers guard Bryant, the Lakers clearly lack an identity. But, credit Coach [...]