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Former NBA Player Reacts to Lakers Star's Viral Comments

This former NBA player knows what D'Angelo Russell is talking about
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Former NBA Player Reacts to Lakers Star's Viral Comments
Former NBA Player Reacts to Lakers Star's Viral Comments

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Los Angeles Lakers star D'Angelo Russell recently opened up about the impact "public humiliation" has had on him, saying during a postgame media session, "Public humiliation has done nothing but molded me into the killer that y'all see today. I never lack confidence, I never fear confrontation, I want all the smoke. I want to talk about it."

During a recent segment of FanDuel's Run It Back show, former NBA player Chandler Parsons reacted to Russell's comments, sharing his own experience with public humiliation when he was with the Memphis Grizzlies.

"When I was in Memphis, I was publicly humiliated every single day," Parsons said. "Whether that was a fan being a d-ck to me at a restaurant, whether that was media, people on Twitter, whatever. That happens, and a lot of the time that makes you so closed off and it makes you cold and it kinda - I'm a happy go lucky person, and it made me an a--hole. I would see someone at the store and they would ask for a picture, and I would think that they were just gonna use this picture to clown me, and I would say no. It makes you cold. So everything that he has went through with the media and the fans... I understanding what he's doing,"

Having dealt with this himself, Parsons understands where Russell is coming from.

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Joey Linn
JOEY LINN

Joey Linn is a credentialed writer covering the NBA and WNBA for On SI. Covering the LA Clippers independently in 2018, then for Fansided and 213Hoops from 2019-2021, Joey joined On SI to cover the Clippers after the 2020-21 season. Graduating from Biola University in 2022 with a Communication Studies degree, Joey served as Biola's play-by-play announcer for their basketball, baseball, softball, and soccer teams. Joey's work on Biola's broadcasts and in the classroom earned him the Outstanding Communication Studies Student of the year award in 2022. Joey covers the NBA full-time, primarily serving as a Clippers beat writer.

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