Nick Young
Nick Young was born in Los Angeles, California, United States on June 1st, 1985 and is the Basketball Player. At the age of 39, Nick Young biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Nicholas Aaron Young (born June 1, 1985), also known as "Swaggy P," is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He plays both shooting guard and small forward positions.
Young played college basketball for the USC Trojans and was a two-time all-conference pick in the Pac-10.
In the first round of the 2007 NBA draft, the Washington Wizards selected him as the 16th overall pick.
In 2018, he won an NBA championship with the Golden State Warriors.
Personal life
Young was the primary subject of a documentary called Second Chance Season in which his exploits, mistakes, and triumphs were discussed. Young's nickname is "Swaggy P," which he claims is a pseudo-biblical reference to "the Prophet of Swag."
Young is the cousin of NBA player Kevon Looney. In 2017-18, they were teammates with the Warriors. Young is also a cousin of rappers Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem.
Young has been on a back-and-forth with his high school sweetheart, Keonna Green, since 2002. They have three children together, two sons (born in 2012 and 2019) and a daughter (born in 2016). They got involved in 2019.
Iggy Azalea, a young and Australian rapper, announced their engagement on June 1, 2015. Azalea broke off their relationship a year after a video of Young expressing how he was having an affair with another woman surfaced. Green, a mother from Azalea, revealed that she was 22 weeks pregnant with their daughter.
High school career
Young, a native of Los Angeles, California, attended Cleveland High School in suburban Reseda, California. As a senior at Cleveland in 2004, he averaged 27.2 points and 10.8 rebounds, winning 2004 CIF L.A. City Section and San Fernando Valley first team awards. Cleveland finished 25–4 with a 57.3% field advantage and 48% from three-point range (52-of-111). Young was voted the country's seventh best player by HoopScoop and named by prep basketball guru Frank Burlison as one of the top 50 recruits in 2004. In one game, he had scored 56 points and had 23 rebounds in another. In 2003, he was named in a list of Top Seniors by Athlon Sports, a list of Top Seniors, and he continued to perform well in CIF L.A. City Section first team selections.
College career
Young was a member of the University of Southern California from 2004 to 2007 and was on the All-Pac-10 First Team in the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons. Young led the fifth-seeded Trojans to a spot in the Sweet Sixteen, where they lost to the one-seeded North Carolina Tar Heels, 74–64. Young aided the USC to a 77–60 victory over Arkansas along the way. Young led the team to 22 points over the Texas Longhorns in an 87–68 victory over the team containing Kevin Durant, the National Player of the Year, although Durant led both teams in scoring with 30 points.
Young announced on April 15, 2007, to the Los Angeles Times, that he will forego his senior year to go professional and enter the 2007 NBA Draft, where he was selected with the 16th overall pick by the Washington Wizards.
Professional career
In the 2007 NBA draft, Young was ranked 16th overall by the Washington Wizards. On December 15, 2007, he appeared in his first NBA game against the Sacramento Kings for the first time in his career.
Young was fined $10,000 by the Washington Wizards for participating in antics before a game against the Philadelphia 76ers on January 5, 2010. Gilbert Arenas was being investigated for a prior incident involving guns in the Wizards' locker room, but denied the allegations by pointing his finger at his teammates as if he were shooting them. His coworkers were photographed smiling and joking with him.
Young scored a career-high 43 points against the Sacramento Kings on January 11, 2011.
In a three-way trade involving the Denver Nuggets and Washington Wizards, Young was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers on March 15, 2012. He helped the Clippers clinch their first playoff appearance in six years against the Oklahoma City Thunder on April 16, 2012. In game one of the 2012 playoffs' first round, he was a key part of the Clippers' comeback victory over the Memphis Grizzlies. He had three three-pointers in less than a minute.
Young signed with the Philadelphia 76ers to a one-year contract on July 12, 2012.
Young signed with the Los Angeles Lakers on July 11, 2013. He converted a Lakers-record seven four-point plays during the 2013-2014 season, while still scoring a career-high 17.9 points per game.
Young re-signed with the Lakers on July 21, 2014, earning him a four-year, $21.5 million contract. He suffered a complete tear of the radial collateral ligament in his right thumb during training camp and was predicted to miss six to eight weeks. Young made his season debut against the Atlanta Hawks on November 18, scoring 17 points and 5 rebounds in a 114–109 victory after missing the first ten games of the season due to the injury. In a 112–110 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on December 12, he scored a season-high 29 points.
Young was ruled out for two to four weeks due to a strained right calf muscle. In a 119–108 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on December 17, 2016, he made eight three-pointers and scored a season-high 32 points. Young's rebound from long range featured him 36 three-pointers in eight games, the most in an eight-game stretch in Lakers franchise history. Young was suspended by the Lakers for the last five regular-season games on April 2, 2017, after being held out of 11 of the previous 12 games despite being healthy. Young decided not to exercise his right to extend his contract for the 2017-18 season, thereby making him an unrestricted free agent.
Young signed with the Golden State Warriors on July 7, 2017. Young came off the bench to score 23 points and six 3-pointers in his Warriors' season opener on October 17, 2017. Young helped the Warriors advance to the 2018 NBA Finals, where they defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in a four-game sweep, with Young winning his first NBA title.
Young signed with the Denver Nuggets on December 10, 2018. He was suspended by the Nuggets after appearing in just four games twenty days earlier on December 30.
3x3 basketball career
Young signed with the Enemies of the Big Three on April 18, 2021.
Boxing career
Young made his boxing debut against Tik Tok's Malcom Minikon in an exhibition match at the Banc of California Stadium on September 10, 2022. After an accidental headbutt was executed by Minikon, the match came to a no contest.