NBA star Nick Young has taken to Instagram to address gay rumors about himself that recently began circulating online.
It all started earlier this week when a photo of Young holding hands with another guy started making the rounds on social media.
Wait a minute … Nick Young??? 2020 is toooooooo much pic.twitter.com/DdplCj3HXb
— REBEL? (@NasirLeigh) April 13, 2020
Pretty scandalous, huh?
The other guy in the photo is NBA player Jordan Clarkson’s younger brother, Bear, who Young has known for many years.
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Pretty soon the whole internet was talking about whether Young was gay. It didn’t take long for the gossip site The Shade Room to post about the rumors on Instagram.
The post, which was shared with the site’s 18.3 million followers, quickly went viral, racking up over 70K likes and nearly 6K comments.
One of the comments was from Young himself, who responded by tagging both Jordan and Bear Clarkson and saying “it’s time to come out.”
Now, it’s pretty clear to us that Young was kidding, but apparently not everyone thought so, because yesterday the 34-year-old athlete had to clarify his comment was a joke.
“I was fooling y’all,” he wrote yesterday. “Those was joke!!!”
This isn’t the first time that Young has found himself at the center of gay rumors. Last month, he cause a stir when he left a comment on singer August Alsina’s Instagram page, complementing his “sexy lips.”
Young recently got engaged to his high school girlfriend, Keonna Green.
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Kangol2
His comment to the Clarkson brothers was clearly a joke, far too many people are still far too homophobic and easily triggered by gay panic, holding hands with another man is common in other cultures (especially Africa and the Middle East), and really, it’s his business who he has sex with or finds attractive. Sheesh. BTW, he was with that Iggy Azalea for a while too. Talk about a relationship that was heading toward the toilet from day 1. On a different note, August Alsina does have beautiful lips, as does that younger Clarkson brother, and Nick Young is bringing the lip game himself.
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Black Pegasus
Not surprised that the gossip shtt rags ran with a post obviously meant to troll homophobes. Yet true to form the knuckle draggers took the bait. I’ve always argued that dominance in sports is one of the truest forms of masculinity. Yet the fragility of it all comes crashing down with homosexuality is injected.
Creamsicle
I have hope that younger athletes will change the homophobia in sports. Gen-Z is super progressive and they’re the young crop of star athletes now.
dhmonarch89
I’m glad he’s str8…. his grammar is deplorable!
Man About Town
Yes, “Those was joke” is a new low in hilarity.
MrMichaelJ
Homophobia rums rampant in the black community BIG time. Homophobia runs rampant in the Evangelical community and I hate Evangelicals. Yes, I get not all black people are homophobic but a segment that has dealt with bigotry happens to be the ones who dish it out it really, really makes it hard to find a f8ck sometimes when they decry the crap dished out to them. YES, I know racism is wrong – OF COURSE IT IS. But so is being homophobic. One doesn’t excuse the other etc, etc, but WTF
SFblazer
Misogyny rums rampant in the gay community BIG time. Misogyny runs rampant in the Evangelical community and I hate Evangelicals. Yes, I get not all gay people are misogynists but a segment that has dealt with bigotry happens to be the ones who dish it out it really, really makes it hard to find a f8ck sometimes when they decry the crap dished out to them. YES, I know homophobia is wrong – OF COURSE IT IS. But so is being misogynistic. One doesn’t excuse the other etc, etc, but WTF
Black Pegasus
@MrMochaelJ
What the f**ck does your little bigoted rant have to do with the article? In case you failed to digest it allow me to issue a summary.
“NBA player trolls internet with cryptic post about coming out after complimenting a male friend’s lips”
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Nothing to do with “black people.” Yet you couldn’t contain yourself! Go hang out with Aaron Schock in Mexico and drink a corona margarita.
Saps48
So he’s 34 years old and recently got engaged to his high school girlfriend, someone he has known nearly 20 years…? OKaaaay…!
Bob LaBlah
A star basketball player making millions of dollars actually cares about the opinion of people who amount to mere peasants and whose very existence is owed to social media? He must be a peasant himself to allow a situation to arise that would bring such scorn. Certain things need to remain private until your contract isn’t renewed. Lose that contract and find out the hard way that not a single one of those nosy queens are going to help you with the light or gas bill.
scotty
hey nick, it’s ok to be gay.