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Nick Young played professional basketball in Yeezy 750 Boosts

Nick Young marches to the beat of his own drum, and last night he was marching in Yeezy 750 Boosts.

Seeing as the Yeezys are basically just socks with soles on them, this kind of seems like the worst idea ever. Young, having just switched allegiances from Nike to Adidas, probably didn’t care about support though, he just wanted to look cool. And that’s exactly what he did.

Swaggy isn’t the first basketball player to wear Kanye designed shoes during a basketball game, but at least when Nate Robinson did it they were shoes somewhat conducive to playing basketball.

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SB Nation presents: Nick Young on how he went from wannabe to Swaggy P

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