It’s been six whole years since a video D’Angelo Russell took of Nick Young admitting to cheating on his (then) girlfriend Iggy Azalea leaked to the public.
Obviously, that situation blew up and disrupted the Lakers’ team chemistry. In the immediate aftermath, Nick Young said he’d forgiven Russell for the video. But, all these years later, however, it’s pretty clear that hasn’t actually happened. Or, at the very least, it hasn’t put these two on friendlier terms.
In an interview with Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix, Young said he’d love to get in the boxing ring and fight with D’Angelo Russell.
If @NickSwagyPYoung could box one NBA player…@SIChrisMannix knew right away 😂 pic.twitter.com/LkodjSE92i
— The Volume (@TheVolumeSports) September 2, 2022
“Mannix: Is there an NBA player you’d like to get in the ring with someday?
Young: Of course. You know, D’Lo. D’Angelo [Russell].
Mannix: Everyone was waiting for that one.”
And, OF COURSE, that’s the answer to that question. To be fair to Young, it didn’t really seem like he was being too serious about it. But when D’Angelo Russell caught wind of this, he very clearly didn’t find any of it funny.
He insisted that he didn’t actually leak the video. Again.
My name keep dude relevant, and I’m going to grave with “I ain’t do that shit”#CarryOn
— D'Angelo Russell (@Dloading) September 4, 2022
This is just a mess y’all. There’s no other way to really describe it. These two still have beef over something that happened six years ago where, clearly, they were both wrong in some way.
Young, very obviously, should not have been cheating Azalea. Then this isn’t even a thing. On Russell’s part, he obviously shouldn’t have been recording Young secretly. That’s not cool — even if he didn’t leak it. You don’t do that.
All that aside, this was six years ago. It’s sad to see these two former teammates haven’t reconciled this at all in any way. Hopefully, they can get to that point someday.
If not, it seems, maybe we’ll get a boxing match out of it.
