Title: SWAGGY (DN)P: NICK YOUNG’S GUIDE TO STAYING POSITIVE
Date: December 10, 2015
Original Source: Vice
Synopsis: I spoke with “Swaggy P” about the importance of – and the how to of – staying positive in a bad situation.
When the Los Angeles Lakers dropped a game to the then-winless Philadelphia 76ers for its seventh straight loss earlier this month, Nick Young suggested that his team needed to “not be a circus act” to get back on the right track.
That Young, the clown prince of the NBA—a ringmaster of plenty of pre- and post-game media carnivals, a non-stop goofball, a hoverboard in human form—thought the Lakers were too much of a circus was something. It would have been delicious irony, were it not so depressing to see one of the league’s most unrelentingly positive and upbeat players momentarily losing his smile.
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Blake Murphy Sports Writing 