DeAngelo Russell secretly films Nick Young - creates huge rift

[Roy H.]

In case anybody missed this Lakers story:

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/15037175/los-angeles-lakers-looking-incident-involving-nick-young-jordan-clarkson

[TheTruth]

lol at Dino saying I agree with every opinion that Felger has.

Settle down doggy.

[Dino Pitino]

Russell made a dumb mistake. Young is the one cheating on his future wife. I get the bro code thing from a team loyalty standpoint, i.e., I can see why the Lakers themselves are shunning Russell. But I don't understand why complete outsiders are giving Russell a harder time than Young. Some people are acting like Russell hurt Iggy. Uh, nah. Young hurt Iggy.

p.s. Regarding the "Felger might be right" post, see my signature. The dude thinks everything Felger says about basketball is right. He's a Felger fan more than a Celtics fan.

Young definitely comes across as a scumbag in this story too but I'm guessing most people are numb to the infidelities of athletes at this point.

I wonder what percentage of NBA players cheat.  For non-married players in "committed" relationships, my guess is at least 80% have cheated at least once.

In a regular life situation, who is worse: the guy that cheats on his fiance, or the person that rats on him.

That the Lakers unanimously sided with the cheater says something about what type of people NBA players are.

The guy who secretly records people and airs their dirty laundry publicly is worse.

In general, they person who purposely tries to start problems for people is worse than the person with vices, but who never intended to hurt anyone.

"In general"...so, like, would the exception be if it were your fiance cheating on you in particular, lol? Or would you still be less pleased with her friend for being a snitch?

[TheTruth]

Russell might be a good guy who was looking out for these women getting harassed but you can't secretly videotape someone. Be a man and confront the guy if you got a problem or tell his wife directly. This is just more embarrassing for everyone.

If it was just a prank gone wrong then forget everything I said.

[Donoghus]

Russell made a dumb mistake. Young is the one cheating on his future wife. I get the bro code thing from a team loyalty standpoint, i.e., I can see why the Lakers themselves are shunning Russell. But I don't understand why complete outsiders are giving Russell a harder time than Young. Some people are acting like Russell hurt Iggy. Uh, nah. Young hurt Iggy.

p.s. Regarding the "Felger might be right" post, see my signature. The dude thinks everything Felger says about basketball is right. He's a Felger fan more than a Celtics fan.

Young definitely comes across as a scumbag in this story too but I'm guessing most people are numb to the infidelities of athletes at this point.

I wonder what percentage of NBA players cheat.  For non-married players in "committed" relationships, my guess is at least 80% have cheated at least once.

In a regular life situation, who is worse: the guy that cheats on his fiance, or the person that rats on him.

That the Lakers unanimously sided with the cheater says something about what type of people NBA players are.

The guy who secretly records people and airs their dirty laundry publicly is worse.

In general, they person who purposely tries to start problems for people is worse than the person with vices, but who never intended to hurt anyone.

"In general"...so, like, would the exception be if it were your fiance cheating on you in particular, lol? Or would you still be less pleased with her friend for being a snitch?

In a professional sports team locker room, the snitch is ten times worse than the cheater.  There are certain things just are expected to stay in a team locker room and not get aired out.  When one player throws a teammate under the bus, there is a violation of trust.  On a sports team or any close knit unit, that is going to have major repercussions. 

However, according to the general public, the cheating is much worse than the snitching.  I think most people would agree with that.

[TheTruth]

Donuts,

I think we all learned that one from Carmello.

Don't snitch.

 

[wiley]

Russell made a dumb mistake. Young is the one cheating on his future wife. I get the bro code thing from a team loyalty standpoint, i.e., I can see why the Lakers themselves are shunning Russell. But I don't understand why complete outsiders are giving Russell a harder time than Young. Some people are acting like Russell hurt Iggy. Uh, nah. Young hurt Iggy.

p.s. Regarding the "Felger might be right" post, see my signature. The dude thinks everything Felger says about basketball is right. He's a Felger fan more than a Celtics fan.

Young definitely comes across as a scumbag in this story too but I'm guessing most people are numb to the infidelities of athletes at this point.

I wonder what percentage of NBA players cheat.  For non-married players in "committed" relationships, my guess is at least 80% have cheated at least once.

In a regular life situation, who is worse: the guy that cheats on his fiance, or the person that rats on him.

That the Lakers unanimously sided with the cheater says something about what type of people NBA players are.

The guy who secretly records people and airs their dirty laundry publicly is worse.

In general, they person who purposely tries to start problems for people is worse than the person with vices, but who never intended to hurt anyone.

Yup this is exactly right, well said. 

[Evantime34]

Russell made a dumb mistake. Young is the one cheating on his future wife. I get the bro code thing from a team loyalty standpoint, i.e., I can see why the Lakers themselves are shunning Russell. But I don't understand why complete outsiders are giving Russell a harder time than Young. Some people are acting like Russell hurt Iggy. Uh, nah. Young hurt Iggy.

p.s. Regarding the "Felger might be right" post, see my signature. The dude thinks everything Felger says about basketball is right. He's a Felger fan more than a Celtics fan.

Young definitely comes across as a scumbag in this story too but I'm guessing most people are numb to the infidelities of athletes at this point.

I wonder what percentage of NBA players cheat.  For non-married players in "committed" relationships, my guess is at least 80% have cheated at least once.

In a regular life situation, who is worse: the guy that cheats on his fiance, or the person that rats on him.

That the Lakers unanimously sided with the cheater says something about what type of people NBA players are.

The guy who secretly records people and airs their dirty laundry publicly is worse.

In general, they person who purposely tries to start problems for people is worse than the person with vices, but who never intended to hurt anyone.

You are making it seem like cheating on your fiance is a victimless crime.

[TheTruth]

Evantime,

It's not but some couples can work these things through. The issue is, it was made public and it's embarrassing for all parties. Makes it harder for the couple to straighten things out and recover.

[Endless Paradise]

Russell made a dumb mistake. Young is the one cheating on his future wife. I get the bro code thing from a team loyalty standpoint, i.e., I can see why the Lakers themselves are shunning Russell. But I don't understand why complete outsiders are giving Russell a harder time than Young. Some people are acting like Russell hurt Iggy. Uh, nah. Young hurt Iggy.

p.s. Regarding the "Felger might be right" post, see my signature. The dude thinks everything Felger says about basketball is right. He's a Felger fan more than a Celtics fan.

Young definitely comes across as a scumbag in this story too but I'm guessing most people are numb to the infidelities of athletes at this point.

I wonder what percentage of NBA players cheat.  For non-married players in "committed" relationships, my guess is at least 80% have cheated at least once.

In a regular life situation, who is worse: the guy that cheats on his fiance, or the person that rats on him.

That the Lakers unanimously sided with the cheater says something about what type of people NBA players are.

The guy who secretly records people and airs their dirty laundry publicly is worse.

This. Let's not try to turn this into "D'Angelo was really doing the right thing." D'Angelo didn't do this for any noble reasons (and even if he were doing, why is it his place to intervene in another man's relationship)? You guys really think Iggy wanted the entire world to find out at the same time that she did that Young was doing dirt behind her back?

[wiley]

Russell made a dumb mistake. Young is the one cheating on his future wife. I get the bro code thing from a team loyalty standpoint, i.e., I can see why the Lakers themselves are shunning Russell. But I don't understand why complete outsiders are giving Russell a harder time than Young. Some people are acting like Russell hurt Iggy. Uh, nah. Young hurt Iggy.

p.s. Regarding the "Felger might be right" post, see my signature. The dude thinks everything Felger says about basketball is right. He's a Felger fan more than a Celtics fan.

Young definitely comes across as a scumbag in this story too but I'm guessing most people are numb to the infidelities of athletes at this point.

I wonder what percentage of NBA players cheat.  For non-married players in "committed" relationships, my guess is at least 80% have cheated at least once.

In a regular life situation, who is worse: the guy that cheats on his fiance, or the person that rats on him.

That the Lakers unanimously sided with the cheater says something about what type of people NBA players are.

The guy who secretly records people and airs their dirty laundry publicly is worse.

In general, they person who purposely tries to start problems for people is worse than the person with vices, but who never intended to hurt anyone.

"In general"...so, like, would the exception be if it were your fiance cheating on you in particular, lol? Or would you still be less pleased with her friend for being a snitch?

That's a different question.  If it happened to me, etc...

Russell could have walked up and privately told Iggy what was happening if that was his concern.  He'd be in much less trouble now as it would be more of an issue directly between him and Nick Young, and the focus would be more on the cheating (and problems between Young and Russell, etc) In this scenario Russell's action is worse. 

[Dino Pitino]

Russell made a dumb mistake. Young is the one cheating on his future wife. I get the bro code thing from a team loyalty standpoint, i.e., I can see why the Lakers themselves are shunning Russell. But I don't understand why complete outsiders are giving Russell a harder time than Young. Some people are acting like Russell hurt Iggy. Uh, nah. Young hurt Iggy.

p.s. Regarding the "Felger might be right" post, see my signature. The dude thinks everything Felger says about basketball is right. He's a Felger fan more than a Celtics fan.

Young definitely comes across as a scumbag in this story too but I'm guessing most people are numb to the infidelities of athletes at this point.

I wonder what percentage of NBA players cheat.  For non-married players in "committed" relationships, my guess is at least 80% have cheated at least once.

In a regular life situation, who is worse: the guy that cheats on his fiance, or the person that rats on him.

That the Lakers unanimously sided with the cheater says something about what type of people NBA players are.

The guy who secretly records people and airs their dirty laundry publicly is worse.

In general, they person who purposely tries to start problems for people is worse than the person with vices, but who never intended to hurt anyone.

"In general"...so, like, would the exception be if it were your fiance cheating on you in particular, lol? Or would you still be less pleased with her friend for being a snitch?

In a professional sports team locker room, the snitch is ten times worse than the cheater.  There are certain things just are expected to stay in a team locker room and not get aired out.  When one player throws a teammate under the bus, there is a violation of trust.  On a sports team or any close knit unit, that is going to have major repercussions. 

However, according to the general public, the cheating is much worse than the snitching.  I think most people would agree with that.

Agreed. So, in general, cheating is worse. But in the particular context of a sports team locker room, snitching on a cheater is worse. I'm not a Laker, so, to me, what Young did is worse. Then again, the Lakers' locker room is probably more of a pro-cheating-Edited.  Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline.bag environment than most in the NBA. Other locker rooms which are not led by a world class cheating Edited.  Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline.bag would probably be less unforgiving toward a dirty-laundry-airing 19-year-old.

[Endless Paradise]

I don't really get the sentiment that this is a Lakers-specific thing or even an athlete-specific thing. If you have a friend who's cheating on his girlfriend, why would anyone then think it's totally fine to go and broadcast that news to the world at large? How is publicly embarrassing the girlfriend helping matters at all? That's the issue here. It has nothing to do with condoning what Nick Young did. You can think Young was wrong while thinking Russell was a complete idiot at the same time.

That said, Nick Young's infidelity isn't what's on trial here; it's D'Angelo Russell betraying the trust of his teammates. Go after Young all you want, but that doesn't suddenly retroactively make Russell some kind of saint who was just looking out for Iggy's best interests. The conversation in the video makes it clear he couldn't have cared less if Young were messing around on his girl.

[alldaboston]

Alex Kennedy on Twitter now says it was supposed to be a SnapChat "prank" that no one would see, but Russell got "hacked"... 

BS

[GetLucky]

Alex Kennedy on Twitter now says it was supposed to be a SnapChat "prank" that no one would see, but Russell got "hacked"... 

BS

That's a complete lie. Snapchat videos are a max of 10-15 seconds.