For those of you unfamiliar, Lakers’ guard D’Angelo Russell’s initial claim to fame didn’t actually involve him playing basketball, rather his memorable reaction to Blake Griffin‘s hammer dunks at a Team USA summer practice that he attended.
In an instant, Russell was forever immortalized as the “He ain’t even stretch doe,” kid.
From the jump, Russell has always been a self-proclaimed late bloomer who was constantly overlooked, seemingly more talked about for his behavior off court rather than on it and these days the story line remains the same — see Nick Young incident or his recent All Summer League roster snub for proof.