{"id":1537248,"date":"2022-11-08T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1537248"},"modified":"2022-11-08T09:45:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T14:45:02","slug":"a-scared-james-worthy-won-his-unexpected-fight-in-his-home-when-he-first-moved-to-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/a-scared-james-worthy-won-his-unexpected-fight-in-his-home-when-he-first-moved-to-la\/","title":{"rendered":"A Scared James Worthy Won His Unexpected Fight In His Home When He First Moved to LA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

James Worthy has always been a winner on the basketball court. A 1982 NCAA champion<\/a> while playing for North Carolina, Worthy also won three NBA titles during his time with the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lakers selected Worthy with the first pick in the 1982 NBA Draft. He admitted to former Lakers teammate Byron Scott<\/a> that he was scared when he moved out to LA for the first time. He had never been out on his own. Worthy ended up winning an unexpected fight in his own home during his days as a paranoid rookie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Worthy admitted to being scared when he was by himself in Los Angeles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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James Worthy of the Los Angeles Lakers shoots a free throw during an NBA game against the Sacramento Kings played on March 23, 1989, at Arco Arena in Sacramento, California. | David Madison\/Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Worthy was smooth on the basketball court. Although he's a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer and a member of the NBA's 75th Anniversary Team,<\/a> his numbers would have been far better had he not played for the Lakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He played all 12 of his NBA seasons with the Lakers, making seven straight All-Star appearances between 1986 and 1992. He averaged 17.6 points and 5.1 rebounds in his career despite being the third option behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While he was comfortable in uniform, he admitted to Scott that he was a nervous wreck off the court when he first got to LA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I lived in the dorm at college,” Worthy told Scott during an appearance on Scott's Off the Dribble<\/a><\/em> podcast. “Never really lived by myself before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In fact, when I first came, I lived with Mitch Kupchak for a couple of months. Then I found a nice townhouse. The first night, I come home, and it was about 10:30. I realized I had never lived by myself before. I was scared as s*** to live in this house by myself.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worthy found himself in an unexpected in-home fight during his early LA years<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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James Worthy all up in his grill! \ud83e\udd75 #LakeShow1987<\/a> | @SpectrumSN<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/jPu4W2nOxU<\/a><\/p>— Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) April 30, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>