June 21, 2016
As it turned out, Jahlil Okafor wasn’t the only Top-3 pick in the 2015 NBA Draft that had his share of public growing pains off the court. Back in March, Lakers guard D’Angelo Russell infamously recorded teammate Nick Young (aka Swaggy P) admitting that he cheated on his fiancee, rapper Iggy Azalea. The video somehow hit the internet, and as we all know, you can never get it back.
(Young and Azalea recently broke up. Yes, this is the type of story that tends to only happen in Los Angeles.)
Well, Russell has apparently moved on to poking fun at his newfound reputation as a snitch. In this funny Foot Locker commercial, Russell gives his high school teammate at Montverde Academy, presumptive No. 1 overall pick Ben Simmons, some tough love:
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