Report: Lakers to shop Nick Young this offseason

Flat-out ignoring the role the rim played in Nick Young's miserable season, the Los Angeles Lakers plan to shop their eccentric shooting guard in the offseason, Mark Medina of the LA Daily News reports. 

Considering all the friction that Young has had with first-year Lakers head coach Byron Scott - and with his career-low shooting numbers and myriad injuries this season - this rumor lands somewhere south of surprising. 

Surprising to everyone except Swaggy P himself, it seems. According to Medina, Young remains confident that in spite of everything, he'll still be wearing purple and gold next season. 

There's a good chance he'll turn out to be right, because his contract - that will pay him another $16 million over the next three seasons - is going to be awfully tough to trade. 

Young said earlier this month that Scott's constant criticism of him has been unfair, but he says now that the two are on good terms and on the same page.

"I take that as he wants me to get better," Young said of Scott. "If he ain’t talking about you, he don’t care about you. That’s one of the things coaches always say. As we talked, he wants me to get better."

Young also indicated that he's prepared for any outcome this offseason. 

"I’m confident in everything," Young said. "Whatever happens, happens. It’s meant to happen."

In the meantime, he plans to get away from basketball and Los Angeles and Byron Scott and every other stress factor in his life. 

"I’m trying to clear my head," he said. "I’ll be in Maui if ya’ll need me."