Nick Young has grown fighting mad. And even his Los Angeles Lakers teammates are now in his crosshairs.
Young was ejected from Wednesday night's 121-114 loss to the Phoenix Suns after he threw a punch at Suns guard Goran Dragic following a hard foul by Alex Len.
During the skirmish, Young was surrounded by a flood of Suns players while he insists no Lakers teammate came to aid him. As he was leaving the court, Young ripped off his jersey in apparent disgust.
"What I'm mad about is just it was one on five," Young told the L.A. Times. "I felt like if somebody would have got in the middle, it wouldn't have escalated that much. I was trying to shove people out of my way. I was getting pushed and pushed further back. It was more trying to get out. "
The loss was the Lakers sixth in a row and 12th in their last 13 games, fraying nerves even more. The team's once vaunted chemistry has even seemed to take a hit.
As for the Young charge, guard Kendall Marshall told The Times "I think Nick kind of saw what he wanted to see at the time. You've got to understand that we've got seven [healthy] guys, so maybe at that point in time you've just got to chill out."
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