D’Angelo Russell is still the starting core guard of the Los Angeles Lakers. In the recent game against the Trail Blazers, D’Angelo Russell looked teary-eyed. Fans and media believed that he was likely to be traded to the Lakers. Walk. However, both the Lakers head coach and D'Angelo Russell said in post-game interviews that they would not trade.
D’Angelo Russell’s behavior also aroused ridicule from former teammate Nick Young. D'Angelo Russell claimed that he was a hooligan and had nothing to cry about, responding head-on to claims that he cried after the game against the Portland Trail Blazers because he was under too much pressure and was likely to be traded. Nick Young also stood up and commented on D'Angelo Russell's behavior, calling him a b***h.
D’Angelo Russell was once teammates with Nick Young on the Los Angeles Lakers, but in 2016, Nick Young was engaged to rapper Iggy Adelia. Nick Young was chatting with D’Angelo Russell. It was revealed that D'Angelo Russell also secretly recorded his Nick Young admission of cheating.
However, the video was later posted online. Soon, D'Angelo Russell was considered a whistleblower, but D'Angelo Russell claimed that he did not know how things happened. This video also led to the breakup of Azaria and Nick Young.
reported at the time that after this incident, D'Angelo Russell began to be underestimated by his teammates, who felt that he was not worthy of trust. After a terrible season, D'Angelo Russell was traded to the Brooklyn Nets. In 2019, Los Angeles Lakers president Magic Johnson publicly stated that the video leak was the main factor in D'Angelo Russell being traded away by the Lakers.
Many fans said they could not understand this kind of thinking in the United States, because it was wrong for Nick Young to cheat. D'Angelo Russell should be the messenger of justice. He made Adelia see Nick Young's character and infidelity clearly. This is a good thing. At that time, Lakers teammates isolated D'Angelo Russell and felt that he could not be trusted. The main reason was that these players and Nick Young were all the same and had some ulterior secrets.
Nick Young quickly left the Lakers as a free agent in 2017, and just one year later, he was out of the league entirely. Over the years, Nick Young has had a lot to say about his former teammate, going so far as to call him the most annoying player he ever played with.
In 2023, D'Angelo Russell was traded back to the Los Angeles Lakers, which also encountered huge controversy. In less than a year, 27-year-old D'Angelo Russell found himself in trouble in the Lakers' trade reinforcement negotiations, and he became one of the players the team most wanted to trade away.
Recently, after D'Angelo Russell returned to the starting lineup, he averaged 27.2 points, 2.7 rebounds, 7.0 assists, 0.7 steals and 1.0 blocks per game. During this period, the field goal percentage was as high as 53.5% and the three-point shooting percentage was 51.0%. However, the Lakers' current record of 22 wins and 23 losses is not enough for D'Angelo Russell to stay with the Lakers.
