REPORT: D’Angelo Russell Being Isolated by Lakers Teammates Over Leaked Nick Young Video

D’Angelo Russell, the man who once touted about having ice in his veins is now getting the cold shoulder from his Los Angeles Lakers teammates. Something that took the trashy media circuit by storm is now affecting the locker room of a team that already has some problems.

As Kobe Bryant takes a final tour around the NBA , there has been recent transgressions involving some of the Lakers younger stars. Recently, Nick Young and Jordan Clarkson were accused of sexual harassment but eventually that story didn’t go anywhere and ‘Swaggy P’ looked to turn the table on his accuser and wanted to sue her instead.

Last week, a video surfaced of Nick Young speaking about cheating on his fiancee, Iggy Azalea, and many assumed the video was recorded by the rookie star, D’Angelo Russell.

Now, those assumptions appear to be true and the Lakers are lashing back at Russell for what he did.

Following from Baxter Holmes and Marc Stein of ESPN.

Sources told ESPN.com that some teammates’ trust in Russell is eroding after a video surfaced in the past week that shows Russell recording a private conversation between himself and teammate Nick Young.

While it’s unclear how the video became public, sources say the resulting tension in the Lakers’ locker room in recent days was among the factors that contributed to L.A.’s limp showing in Salt Lake City on Monday night, when they absorbed a 48-point pounding from the Utah Jazz. The loss was the Lakers’ worst in franchise history.

Various Lakers officials are aware of the issue and are dismayed with Russell, sources say, but to this point they have chosen not to intervene.

“Right now,” one source said, “they’re handling it by isolating him.”

Austin Brown, Russell’s agent from Creative Artists Agency, declined to comment when reached Tuesday.

Said one team insider: “This was a prank gone wrong and a mistake by [Russell], and he has to be held accountable, but I would hope he isn’t overly criticized for it.”

The emergence of the video, sources said, has been the talk of the locker room for the past several days and has led to a tangible strain between Russell and some teammates.

At a recent breakfast meeting, one source said, no Laker would sit with Russell at his table. The source added that, in another instance, Russell came into the locker room and sat next to guard Lou Williams, who got up and walked away.

“It’s bad,” one team source told ESPN.com’s Ramona Shelburne. “It’s about as bad as it can get. There were trust issues already. Now there’s no trust.”

At the end of the day, all parties involved are at fault and the only real victim here is Iggy Azalea who, despite what you feel about her, found out about her fiancee cheating on him courtesy of a cell phone video. That might be the worst punishment of all. Young admitted to cheating on his fiancee and there’s nothing right about that. D’Angelo Russell, who is still only 20 years old, should not be filming a personal conversation between he and Young. Finally, Lakers teammates should not be shunning Russell and these grown men should instead be telling Russell what he did wrong, instead of acting like kids at the middle school lunch table by leaving him to eat by himself. You’re a team, act like it.

Now something must be done from the higher powers in the organization when it comes to handling this situation.