Well, in a move everyone definitely saw coming, the Los Angeles Lakers have officially shut down Nick ‘Swaggy P’ Young for the remainder of the season.
Coach Byron Scott made it official that Nick Young will be the seventh member of the Lakers this season to not finish it on the court.
From Joey Ramirez of Lakers.com.
“I haven’t even even talked to (head athletic trainer) Gary (Vitti), to be honest with you,” Scott said. “My feeling really is that, with seven games left, he probably won’t play the rest of the season. Like I said, the last report that I did get on him — which was when we were on the road — was that he really wasn’t making much progress.” …
“Being out as long as he’s been out with seven games to go, I don’t really see how he can probably play,” Scott said. “He’s got to get back into game condition and things like that. So I don’t think there’s a chance he’s going to play in the next week.” …
“It’s just a matter of him getting healthy … and understanding going into next year his priorities need to be a little different,” Scott said. “He’s a home run or a strikeout type guy on the offensive end. Just like I told him: He has to elevate his game.
“He has to grow as a basketball player if he wants to continue to play in this league for a long time. He has to get better moving without the ball; being able to defend people a little bit better; and be a better off-the-ball defender as well.”
Well, 6 games until the Lakers season is over. No more struggle for Lakers fans this season and they can possibly start rooting for the Los Angeles Clippers as ‘Lob City’ heads into the playoffs. You will no longer be able to watch the most entertaining player on the Lakers in the last few months now that Swaggy P is done.
Nick Young getting shut down is kind of the cherry on top of the Lakers season. Their season will be ended without Kobe Bryant, Julius Randle, Nick Young, Wayne Ellington, Ronnie Price and the pair of Xavier Henry and Steve Nash were once on the roster and have now been waived.
That’s all she wrote.
