Los Angeles Lakers rookies call Nick Young ‘Daddy Swag’
By Bryan Rose
It’s safe to say Los Angeles Lakers guard Nick Young marches to the beat of his own drum. That said, the veteran certainly knows how to have fun.
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Case in point, his ‘hazing’ of rookies in which Young requests that they call him a special name. What is it, you ask? ‘Daddy Swag’. Yes, Nick Young asks grown men to call him ‘Daddy Swag’. That’s the word from rookie Jordan Clarkson who suggests he’d rather call him something else instead.
“We call him Scrappy Feet,” Clarkson said. “Ugly feet. Naw, he told me to call him Daddy Swag…that’s a rookie duty so I’ll make sure I get it done.”
It appears as if Nick Young doesn’t require every rookie to call him ‘Daddy Swag’ however as Julius Randle, the No. 7 pick in the 2014 NBA Draft suggests he has another name for the Lakers guard. What exactly that name is though will apparently remain unknown as Randle wouldn’t cough it up.
“I had something different,” Randle said. “Do I gotta say it?”
Seems to be tough living for Nick Young as not only does the Los Angeles Lakers guard have the rookies eating out of his hand, he also gets to go home to pop star Iggy Azalea every evening.
Of course, he has to spend the majority of his day with fellow Los Angels Lakers eg0maniac Kobe Bryant, so I guess there’s a trade-off.
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