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Tony Brown on D'Angelo Russell: He broke an unwritten rule

Tony Brown became one of the few NBA coaches to comment on the D'Angelo Russell controversy Thursday, saying the 20-year-old rookie broken "an unwritten rule" when he videotaped Laker teammate Nick Young confessing to cheating on his fiancée, Iggy Azalea, and posted it on Snapchat.

"It’s just an unwritten rule, man," Tony Brown told Brian Lewis in Cleveland. "Whatever happens within your team, it stays inside. You don’t leak stuff out like that. It’s detrimental to everybody. But that’s a tough lesson to learn.

"Yeah, generally it doesn’t get leaked out.