OT: Worst teammate of the year goes to D'Angelo Russell

[Dogdeacon]

Any professional athlete who is married or in a committed relationship is CRAZY. Plenty of time for that when you're done playing. Derek Jeter should be the role model for all pro athletes.

True, but not everyone is Derek Jeter and of course some people want or need to settle down for their own reasons/good.

So take for example Nick Young who is certainly at the apex of his career and contract/earnings. He ain't going to do better than Iggy Azalea after he retires (esp overall package factoring in her career), so there is logic in locking that down now. Of course IF you make that choice you either decide to stop chasing others or have a 'gentleman's agreement' with your significant other about what's allowed. When you combine the losing face and the likely trade from LA to Sacramento or worse, I'm taking the under on the SwaggyP - Iggy relationship.

 

[pnow15]

Isn't there a kind of unwritten code men establish by the time they're in seventh grade? How could Russell not know this?
How does he reestablish trust when he seems to have missed out on the most basic principle of brotherhood?

 

[Mots010]

We've got players beating their children, wives, strangers, other players, pulling guns on each other...this list goes on. Apparently this is what gets you alienated from the entire league.

 

[Dogdeacon]

We've got players beating their children, wives, strangers, other players, pulling guns on each other...this list goes on. Apparently this is what gets you alienated from the entire league.

Well put, this is two knuckleheads talking in a hotel room, one even admits he's filming it & then stupidly neither deletes it and it gets leaked months later.
I think a big takeaway is simple example to people everywhere to be super careful about what you take pictures or video of cuz it can get out there - that's a life lesson for a young person not some deadly unforgivable sin that forever blackballs Russell as untrustworthy.

 

[Pudge]

Here's the point ...

Russell is a KID. He's barely 20. Yes ... he should have known better. He is barely past the schoolyard taunts we all remember. He wouldn't be in most adult workplaces. I don't know how a team accepts that EXCEPT he has immense talent and needs to play going forward. In the age of camera phones & video, all these guys must know that this illicit sleazy activity is potentially in the public domain. Lessons ...