By james art 
Gilbert Arenas took advantage of Nick Young’s history with D’Angelo Russell to poke fun at the former LA Lakers guard.
In 2016 then-rookie D’Angelo Russell secretly videotaped Young admitting to cheating on her then-fiancé Iggy Azalea. The video was later leaked online. Although Russell denied leaking the video, Young said he was convinced the ex-warrior did it on purpose.
At Gill’s Arena on Friday, Arenas put a jersey on Russell and joked about the scandal.
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“I’m a little D-Lo, straight out of the D-Lo House,” Areni joked. “All I’m doing is kicking today.”
Young responded with good humor:
“You better not sign, nor am I with you any more, oh, oh, that’s what today?”
At the time, Russell accepted blame for recording the video, but insisted he was not the source of the leak.
The incident cast a shadow over the Lakers’ locker room, with players admitting it strained some relationships.
Nick Young claims
Nick Young recalled the incident on an episode of Gill’s Arena in November. He told Arenay that he didn’t sign Russell because he was warned of the consequences by Lakers management.
“[Former Lakers GM] Mitch Kupchak told me, “Don’t come to the arena. They don’t come to practice, none of that. If you do something, we’ll take your money,” Young said. “And then when I got there, there was security, everywhere, so I couldn’t get a chance to [beat him up]. “
He added that Russell leaked the video to “take some of my aura.”
“How else did he get out there?” asked Young. “I’m big time, you know that. I’ve had the worst. I was in the mix at the time. I was up and about … he was seeing a lot. He was so enthusiastic about the inflated persona. He was recording me to see what this shit was like. “
Russell was traded by the Lakers to the Brooklyn Nets in 2017, while Young opted not to extend his contract and became an unrestricted free agent.
Edited by Arvind Sriram