Nick Young of the Los Angeles Lakers has been regarded by many in his relatively short NBA career as a bit of a punkish upstart.

On Tuesday night against the New York Knicks, “Swaggy P” as he refers to himself, did nothing to dispel this impression as he celebrated a three-point attempt which did not actually connect.

The question now is, who will be the first player to punk Young with a similar three-point celebration on a missed trey?

Oh, and if you were wondering where the Swaggy P moniker came from… (as I was) Lakers Nation / SLAM has got your back:

The P is a mystery. I can’t give that secret out yet, Young says. It was one of my first nicknames, so nobody really knew about it and I just kept it a secret. People kept asking about it, so I started saying it’s a mystery. In a couple years I’ll give y’all something.

I can wait. No, really… I can.

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This is a more conventional process of tilt-shifting. Here Madison Square Garden (Which isn’t a square) looks like a mini model.

Cowboys Stadium hosted the 2010 All Star Game and set a record for game attendance at a little over 108,000. Tilt shift makes this image look like a little toy. How cute.

The  Los Angeles Lakers Girls are iconic in the cheer leading circuit (if such thing exists). Once again tilt-shift makes them look like figurines.

‘The Shot’ by Michael Jordan taking the Chicago Bulls on the way to another championship. Who wouldn’t want a scale model of this?

Drazen Petrovic and the Dream Team scramble for a ball. It’s great but it’s better in tilt shift

And we all know how the 1992 Olympics finished.

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Vlade Divac’s father, Milenko Divac passed away after the vehicle he was in overturned after hitting a light pole in the outskirts of Cacak in Serbia. Divac’s mother, Radmila who was reportedly driving the vehicle suffered serious injuries, is currently in hospital is expected to survive.

Twenty years ago Divac’s lost his childhood friend when fellow NBA star Drazen Petrovic died in an automobile crash in Germany. Petrovic, whose career took off after being traded to the New Jersey Nets earned All-NBA Third Team honours and torched Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls for two 40+ point games.  Divac and Petrovic’s relationship was featured in the ESPN Documentary “Once Brothers”.

The one time All-Star, Vlade Divac, the head of the Serbian Olympic Committee has been involved in humanitary work since ending his 16 year NBA career with the Los Angeles Lakers, the Charlotte Hornets, and the Sacramento Kings.

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Los Angeles Lakers guard, Nick Young stunned Shanghai NBA fans (and some Golden State Warrior players) by hitting an over the head half court shot  on the NBA tour of China. It looks like Swaggy P is fitting in just well at Laker Land.

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Ladies and Gentleman, Classic NBA in color.

Perhaps the most iconic image in basketball history is that of Wilt Chamberlain after scoring 100 points. Here is what Wilt would have looked like in color.

Has there a been better rivalry in NBA history than Larry Bird and his Celtics versus Magic Johnson and his Lakers? I doubt it. Here is Magic grabbing a rebound over Larry Legend and looking to run the floor.

George Gervin, a true swingman, never let not winning a championship get in the way of a decorated career racking up multiple scoring titles, multiple all-star appearances and many All-NBA First Team awards.

Julius Erving pioneered the above-the-rim style of play which is popular today, but he was more than just a dunker. Dr J also has an NBA ring and an NBA MVP award to his name. This polished shot of Dr J looks more like a transition screen from NBA 2Ksomething but I can’t recall the Indiana Pacers being a classic team in the game.

Fred Brown goes under the radar as far as NBA greats go, but Brown was an NBA All-Star and NBA Champion. The Seattle SuperSonics have retired his number 32 jersey. Here Brown takes it hard to the hoop against the Phoenix Suns.

The game has seen many great bigs. Before Shaq, Howard, Olajuwon, Yao, and Ewing there was Bill Russell. The legend garnered just a lazy 11 rings and 5 league MVP awards. Russell has plenty of reasons to smile.

Willis Reed is a man with a long list of NBA accomplishments but none greater than having Whoopi Goldberg wear his jersey in the movie Eddie. Here Willis looks for a way to get past ‘Wilt the Stilt’.

Bill Walton. With a career marred by injury Bill found himself sitting on the sidelines quite a bit. Maybe it was there here found his knack for colorful commentary?

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Artis Gilmore. This hard working big man found himself manning up against the other great bigs of the league, but that didn’t stop him from being a multiple All-star, multiple Defensive First Team award winner and even winning an ABA championship.

But perhaps the greatest image ever seen in the NBA is that of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar mid skyhook. With a career highlight and awards list as long as Kareem is tall, it is no wonder the man then known as Lew Alcindor found himself encased in an exhibit in the movie Baseketball. That skyhook was beautiful.

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Doused in  cool black  the purple Lakers writing and numbers pop with the gold trimming, the Lakers new get up looks very slick. the Lakers will join ‘Rip City’ (Portland Blazers) and ‘Motor City’ (Detroit Pistons) as part of the League’s ‘City Pride’ campaign.  ESPNLA reported that the ‘Hollywood nights’ strip is one of a series of new uniforms the Lakers will wear at times through this season. Earlier in the week it was reported that the Lakers will wear sleeves multiple times this season.

Steve Nash thinks that the players should have the option to wear the uniform in any style they want as long as it looked “pretty”. I must say that I like the look of the slick black ‘Hollywood Nights’ uniform.

With the Lakers losing superstar, Dwight Howard through free agency recently and with Kobe Bryant in the twilight of his career this is a perfect time for the Lakers to get a few new looks from a merchandise perspective. Any team LeBron James is on cashes in by wearing what seems like 15 different jerseys a year. Why shouldn’t any other team do the same?

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Jimmy Kimmel Live vox-popped a bunch of people on the streets of Los Angeles to find out just how excited they were about the LA Lakers making it to the NBA Finals… despite the fact that, y’know, the Lakers didn’t make it to the 2013 NBA Finals.

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