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Nick Young nearly blows hand off playing with fireworks on 4th of July

Published Jul. 5, 2016 2:31 p.m. ET

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The Summer of Swag nearly came to a fiery end on Monday night after Nick Young decided to pick up a lit firework and hold it over his head.

TMZ posted a SnapChat video purportedly taken Monday night during a Fourth of July party at Young's Los Angeles home. The footage shows a shirtless Young rushing in, grabbing a lit artillery round and holding it over his head as it explode

Miraculously, the explosion somehow didn't remove his hand and/or arm, given that it appears to rupture and shoot out the launch tube sideways.

Now, if you were to make a video on firework safety, this would be the grainy, black and white footage showing you what not to do. This is literally the last way you handle fireworks: shirtless, late, barehanded. Any-handed, actually.

But this is the Summer of Swag: the period of Young's newly single life where camo shorts, late night Drake crooning and shirtlessness hold sway. Its been two weeks have since rap artist Iggy Azalea ended her engagement with Young, and every moment since has been a emotional highwire walk for the Lakers shooting guard.

This is your brain on summer singlehood, guys. You're just shirtless and playing with fire, daring the gods to smite you with an M-80 of divine judgement.

Be safe, Swaggy.

Dan is on Twitter. The Summer of Swag: where shirtlessness is next to godliness.