The Warriors Won’t Be Calling Nick Young ‘Swaggy P’ Anytime Soon

The Golden State Warriors just keep getting more ridiculous from a roster standpoint, as the team added both Omri Casspi and Nick Young on value contracts this week. While Casspi is a Basketball Twitter darling, the addition of Young moved the needle in a (much) bigger way and the always entertaining shooting guard was introduced to the media on Friday.

As you may expect, there were quite a few highlights, including a full-blown discussion on the use of Young’s “Swaggy P” nickname. First, Warriors GM Bob Myers made it known that the organization doesn’t particularly care for the moniker.

Then, in typical Nick Young fashion, he did anything but renounce his nickname and, in fact, indicated he doesn’t believe he could give it up in full.

In the grand scheme, this couldn’t matter any less and everyone knows it. Still, it is a window into the back and forth that could be going on in Oakland when trying to integrate Young into the fold. Beyond that, Young took questions on his noted bashing of the Warriors and their fans on Twitter in the (very) recent past and provided one beautiful answer.

Nick Young is a delight and he’s actually pretty good at basketball at this point in his career. The Warriors are unfair.