Trae Young Explains Why He Roasted Player On Open Run During Offseason

One of the most humiliating experiences for casual ball players is getting shown up by someone elite on the court. There are many who move on the court with a false bravado during games, chirping and trash talking. It can often work against opponents of a certain caliber who don’t have a strong mental side to their games. But a random pickup baller trying it against Trae Young in a game setting was always disastrous.

The Atlanta Hawks point guard is possibly one of the worst NBA players for the average player to hoop against. He is fast, an unbelievable shooter against non-pro competitors and loves getting into it with hecklers. Trae Young is a complete package and incredibly hard to defend even for elite NBA defenders. So when he goes up against a regular Joe in a pickup game, the Joe doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell.

A famous video of a random heckler trash talking Trae Young and getting put in his place, from the 2022 offseason, went viral on social media recently. The footage shows a Skinz League hooper in Oklahoma City getting in the All-NBA point guard’s face and trying to instigate things. That was the worst mistake of his life, as Young made him regret his antics for the rest of the game, dropping a whopping 52 points.

Young revealed his thinking behind his emphatic response with a tweet today. He claims that what he did was just something he does in gyms, and not particularly driven by an urge to show his opponent his place:

I still don’t know why I told them kids to “guess” his name…& it wasn’t hostile, just another day in a packed gym!