Next step for Joe Young after having his first good game in the pros: changing his name to something more memorable than “Joe Young”. He’s an African-American, why doesn’t he have a stereotypically African-American name? Everyone remembers Jacquizz Rodgers (yeah, he’s a football player, my point remains), even though he kind of sucks. Ain’t nobody gonna remember a mediocre rookie with the name “Joe Young”. Everybody would remember a mediocre rookie named, for example, God Shammgod.
It is not my place to come up with a new name for him. That is his job. If he wants to expedite the process, I’m sure there are random-black-person-name generators on the Internet. Hell, if he really wanted to be remembered, he’d go Thai on this one. Paithoon Jatusripitak, welcome to the NBA!