At least as far as his teammates are concerned, he will be. You see, the fun-loving party people on the Wizards roster just love busting their rookies' chops, to the point where Nick Young has had enough.
NY's apparently been the victim of some pretty crazy rookie hazing this year, and was looking forward to the end of the regular season where he thought his rookie status would be a thing of the past. According to some interesting logic from some of his teammates though, that won't be the case.
Nick Young .. said: "Ya'll got 11 more games to be punking me like a rookie, then it stops."
Songaila: "What do you mean? The playoffs count too."
Nick: "No man, it's 82 games that's it."
Jamison, (pouncing): "You have to play in 82 games. You've played in what, 27 games? (actually, he's played in 66 games but who's counting?) That means you're still a rookie. In fact, you're going to be a rookie next year too."
This reasoning befuddled Young for a moment and then, right on cue, DeShawn Stevenson walked over and gave him a half-hearted whack to the back of the head.
Ha, leave it to DeShawn to put an exclamation point on things. So it looks like Nick can expect this to continue a little while longer, possibly even into the first few games of next season. Who knows, maybe Gilbert's imminent return and the fact that the playoffs are right around the corner will have the team focused on something other than messing with their rookies.
