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Nick Young’s right arm is no longer strictly for buckets :(

End of an era.

Nick Young is a professional basketball player known as much for his self-professed swagger as his basketball, and this was Rule No. 1 of swagdom.

So, seeing this tweet cross my timeline was shocking news, to be honest.

I did a little research and it’s true. The proof is right there on the Drew League Instagram account. Nick Young’s right arm: No longer strictly for buckets.

Check Nick Young’s IG, too. The Los Angeles native got Tupac tatted on his right forearm.

Leah got to get her pic she wanted wit my dog @swaggyp1 .. #mhp did that rd 2 tomorrow .. #lakers #swaggyp

A photo posted by ready_rod1 (@ready_rod1) on

There are two potential outcomes here. Perhaps Nick Young, his right arm no longer strictly for buckets, never makes another shot again. Or maybe, freed from being *strictly* for buckets, Nick becomes a world-class cellist. An Olympic fencer! A surgeon!

Time will tell.

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

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