Nick Young might have some explaining to do when he touches down in Oakland. It didn’t take long for fans to sift through his Twitter account and find tweets from 2016 in which he called out Warriors fans for not knowing anything about basketball.
Nick Young’s tweets making fun of Warriors fans resurface after being signed by Warriors
James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.
It wasn’t just this tweet either. Young was awfully upset with the Warriors on June 10, 2016.
Tweet for the job you want, not the one you have.
It’s understandable if Warriors fans are mad, but to be fair he DID qualify his tweet by saying “2016 GS fans.” A lot changes in a year. Perhaps Young thinks 2017 Warriors fans are completely different people. Maybe they’ve learned a lot, or educated themselves. They could have grown as fans and earned Young’s blessing now. You just never know.
(I’m trying to help you out here, Nick. Just run with it OK?)
Let this serve as a cautionary tale for any player in any sport: Trash tweeting about another team or fan base is only going to set you up to have to delete your tweets. Life in sports comes at you fast, and you just never know when you’ll be traded or where you might sign next. You don’t NEED to shoot your shot, after all.
Young did talk abut the tweets during his press conference with the Warriors.
Sure, Swaggy. We believe you.
