To better understand D’Angelo Russell the basketball player, the best thing to do is to understand him better as a person.
For that, look no further than his relationship with his two big brothers, Antonio and LeShawn.
Russell is very close with both his mother and his father, but the way the 19-year-old conducts himself on and off the hardwood has been most directly shaped by his 21-year-old brothers, who now live with him in Los Angeles.
We sat down with the Lakers’ No. 2 overall selection in last summer’s NBA Draft for an extended conversation about his family, his contrasting experience from high school and college to the NBA, academics, video games, music and more.