Lakers looking into claim that Young, Clarkson harassed women
The Los Angeles Lakers are looking into an allegation that players Nick Young and Jordan Clarkson sexually harassed two women at a Hollywood intersection Sunday night.
Lakers spokesman John Black told ESPN's Baxter Holmes that the team is taking the accusations "very seriously," but declined to provide further comment.
Alexis Jones, a Los Angeles-based activist, told Holmes that on Sunday evening she was stopped in her car near the intersection of La Brea and Melrose Avenues when men in another vehicle made "vulgar" and "sexual gestures" toward Jones and her 68-year-old mother.
Jones took a picture of the men she claims were responsible and posted it to Instagram, where two were immediately identified as Clarkson and Young.
"It scared her," Jones said of her mother's reaction to the incident. "We were in a small car, and they were in a big Jeep, and it was a bunch of big dudes. They're leaning out of the car and making vulgar, sexual gestures. My mom was really shocked. That immediately turned into sobbing."
Jones told ESPN that Black, the Lakers' longtime public relations vice-president, called her to apologize on behalf of the team.
"I've been inspired by how the Lakers have responded," she said.
Young's response Monday night would appear to contradict that reported reaction by his employer. The swingman tweeted the following, which he later deleted:
