Nick Young has become the latest Lakers veteran to be shut down for the season, according to Mark Medina of The Los Angeles Daily News.
Young has been held out of 11 of the past 12 games even though he’s healthy, so the move isn’t a surprise. But the Lakers have decided to make it official, saying the 31-year-old shooting guard won’t play again outside of an emergency. A source said Young might be used in case of an unexpected injury, but the team doesn’t expect that to happen.
Young was one of the pleasant surprises of L.A’s preseason, winning a starting job after a summer filled with rumors that he might be traded or released. Young played 60 games, all starts, and averaged 13.2 points per night.
The 10-year veteran has a $5.67MM player option for next season and recently said he hasn’t decided what to do about it.
The Lakers previously shut downLuol Deng and Timofey Mozgov in an effort to devote more time to younger players.
tank season boys
Talk about really tanking smh I hope my 6ers get they pick
You’re going to criticize the Lakers for tanking when the 76ers made it an art form?? That’s rich!!!
The Lakers shutting down healthy players for no reason after they paid them big money lmao, we just got bad luck with injuries & the Lakers have been tanking just as long as my 6ers
Wow… Nick Young?!?!?!
Imagine if they dropped to 4th in the lottery and lose their ’17 and ’19 picks
Time to get to the bottom of the fish TANK.
Continued…This deliberate tanking garbage should be outlawed, and/or heavily fined.
I don’t know how they can punish deliberate tanking. Maybe start with punishing teams with the loss of 2nd round picks? Something small which could eventually lead to problems for a team.
I mean Sixers didn’t hold out healthy players during their tank. They just didn’t field talented players but those guys played hard AF. This is like playing an entire season with James Harden like defensive effort.
If they are tanking, why did they beat Memphis yesterday? Memphis is a playoff team & needed the game to avoid playing the Spurs in the first round. Nick Young didn’t play, so his absence didn’t make a bit of difference. They won on 3/24 against Minnesota & he didn’t play then either.
Players always play to win.
Indictment of previous management. Thanks for the memories Mitch!!
And Silver is worried about RESTING Players………yikes