Nick Young says he was depressed for 4 years after retiring from the NBA and got trash talked at LA Fitness
“You're trying to find yourself. You do get depressed. You miss basketball. Even when you play basketball, it's just not the same. You can't do the same moves you used to do. People talking trash to you now”
“I remember I was at the gym the other day. Somebody was like, ‘Oh, you here now. You at LA Fitness with us now.’ People are like, ‘Oh, Nick ain't got it no more. You can't dunk no more. You at LA Fitness with us playing.’ So you get people talking trash. Then you want to be able to go back at them, but your legs don't got the same speed no more”
“Basketball was like a 24/7 thing. Practice, you watch it, you play it. But once that's gone, you got to find something to fill that void, and that's hard to do"
“You just miss basketball, and you're getting older and just trying to find yourself and what makes you happy or gives you that drive to keep waking up and go back to it over and over. You got to figure that part out. What makes you happy again”