“Kobe Bryant must be cussing him again”: NBA Twitter reacts to former 6’7″ Lakers player flopping in the ring

Adit Pujari | 11/09/2022
"Kobe Bryant must be cussing him again": NBA Twitter reacts to former 6'7" Lakers player flopping in the ring

Former Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Nick Young aka Swaggy P gets knocked out of the ring in bizarre match

Those of you who remember the steep decline of the Los Angeles Lakers from the 2013-14 season, will surely remember Nick Young. The 6’7″ shooting guard, nicknamed Swaggy P, played four seasons for the team.

In those four seasons, the purple and gold never managed to win more than 27 games a season. They also had the worst losing record in the last two decades over the duration of four seasons.

Drafted by the Washington Wizards, Young was a good role player before his stint with LA Lakers. Though he started as a sub-par scorer with not much of an impact, he turned things around by his 4th season.

In his first season with the Lakers, although he registered 17.9 ppg. Young’s attitude and team’s losing spree led to Kobe Bryant’s frustration. The late legend often disciplined his younger teammates.

Young once revealed how Bryant would react to a horrible loss.

Nick: “We were getting blew out in Portland. Kobe is in the locker room just waiting for everybody to come in. You know everybody in there got ‘Kobe’s’ on the team. He comes in and says ‘Y’all playing soft. How you gonna wear these shoes and y’all soft? This ain’t what we do here in LA.”

He continued: “I’m not thinking nothing of it. He tells everybody to take their shoes off, and I’m like ‘What? What’s wrong with you man?’ And we took them off. He just started grabbing people’s shoes and threw them all in the trash. He’s like ‘Y’all don’t deserve these. Until y’all get it right, y’all can’t wear no Kobe’s’.”

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Part of the Lakers’ worst team of the last decade, Swaggy P is losing at Boxing as well

Swaggy P had a decent NBA career. He won a chip with the Golden State Warriors in 2018 but was waived off by the Nuggets the very next season.

On September 10th, Young made his boxing debut against TikTok star Minikon. Though Swaggy P was winning until the third round, a punch by Minikon sent him out of the ring.

NBA Twitter questioned the knockout and many even claimed Young was flopping. The Lakers former guard lost the bout and sent social media into an intense frenzy.

Do you think Young was flopping?

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Adit Pujari

Adit Pujari is an NBA Journalist and Strategist at The SportsRush. He formerly worked as a debate and writing trainer. An avid fan of Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers, Adit began following the league in 2007. With the Lakers and Boston Celtics rivalry ripe, he found himself hooked to the sport immediately. After 15 years of religiously following the league, he decided to use his knowledge base as a sports writer in 2021. Since then, he has worked as an NBA writer, led a team of MLB writers, and has now joined The SportsRush. In his spare time, Adit loves playing pickup games and exploring hidden Himalayan trails.

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