Written by Dan Devine at YahooSports.com
Last season, the Golden State Warriors took one former member of the knucklehead-era Washington Wizards and turned him into a productive contributor to an NBA championship team. Now, it’s time for another; with JaVale McGee’s legacy as the first player to win a ring with a rat-tail secure, the Dubs intend to get Swaggy.
That’s right: Nick Young will join the Warriors on a one-year, $5.2 million deal, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, taking the taxpayer midlevel exception to play for the defending champs.
Congratulations to @NickSwagyPYoung on your new contract with the @warriors! We are so happy for you!
— Priority Sports (@PrioritySports) July 5, 2017
Evidently, Draymond Green’s recruiting efforts are as successful now as they were last summer.
Looks like Draymond is doing some free-agent recruiting …
📸: money23green | Snapchat pic.twitter.com/boENV1RP2n
— Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) July 3, 2017
And apparently, Draymond wasn’t the only Warrior making a sales pitch:
As I mentioned on @957thegame, Kevin Durant was an active member of the Warriors’ Nick Young recruitment bunch. Talked to him a lot.
— Sam Amick (@sam_amick) July 5, 2017
Young is likely best known to casual fans as a “Shaqtin’ a Fool”-brand of basketball internet celebrity, one whose exploits have included (but are not limited to):
• Failing to conquer the Cinnamon Challenge with JaVale;
• Air-mailing layups and ceremonial first pitches alike;
• Rocking Superman onesies, Egyptian party shirts of the 1970s and, I guess, a fade mullet?;
• Invoking “Django Unchained” and “Driving Miss Daisy” when detailing what it’s like to play with Kobe Bryant;
• Getting embroiled in a tabloid-gossip maelstrom when D’Angelo Russell’s surreptitious recording of a sensitive conversation led to fissures in Young’s relationship with then-girlfriend/celebrity musician Iggy Azalea and in the Lakers locker room;
• Insisting his right arm is tattoo-free because it is “strictly for buckets” before deciding instead it was for buckets and a tattoo of 2Pac;
• Claiming God came to him in a dream to bestow upon him the nickname Swaggy P;
• And, of course, celebrating a buzzer-beating 3-pointer while it was still in the air, only for it to wind up well wide of its target.
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