"Acting Like Day 26 in the Diddy Trial": Former Lakers Guard Nick Young Torches Stephen Jackson in Explosive Response After NBA Career Insult 

Former LA Lakers guard Nick Young went in on Stephen Jackson after the latter insulted Young’s NBA career during a podcast episode. The issue stemmed from Jackson's advice to Kenyon Martin regarding the friction between him and Young. Martin and Swaggy P are co-hosts on Gilbert Arenas’ podcast.

Stephen Jackson advised him to stop arguing with the former Laker, and downplayed his career achievements, saying that it wasn’t “s**t.” The comments did not land well with Young, who replied to Jackson on an Instagram live.

“I shouldn’t even be talking about you, man, how a m**********r that played for the Bobcats is going to talk about Swaggy P!” Young said. “Do you know how bad you have to be to get traded to the Bobcats?”

Young continued and drew a parallel between Jackson's commentary and Day 26 of the Sean “Diddy” Combs trial.

“I’m tired of you jumping into s*** that doesn’t belong to you. Out here acting like Day 26 in the Diddy trial," he said.

"I’m tired of this s***, that nasty ass game of yours. The fact that you said I wasn’t shit kind of irritated me cause I was like, ‘This n**** plays for the Bobcats,” When you play for that team, you know it's over.”

---

Nick Young claims that he would “destroy” Stephen Jackson one-on-one

Continuing his rant, Nick Young made another claim, stating that he would “destroy” Stephen Jackson if the pair were to ever play a one-on-one game of basketball.

“If we rolled the ball out one-on-one, I would destroy you,” Young claimed. “Please stop, ain’t nothing about your game… You didn’t have a handle, you played hard… that’s all you can do.”

Jackson enjoyed a 14-season NBA career, winning one championship with the San Antonio Spurs in 2003. He played 858 games, averaging 15.1 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.1 assists for his career.

Meanwhile, Nick Young is also a one-time NBA champion, winning the title with the Golden State Warriors in 2018. He was in the league for 12 seasons and averaged 11.4 points and 2.0 rebounds in 720 games. While they are not too far on paper, fans argue that Jackson was a better two-way player than Young.