Brooklyn Nets guard D'Angelo Russell is back with the Nets for the second time in his career. This time around, he can be himself again.

D’Angelo Russell played a major role in helping the Nets upset a shorthanded Lakers team on Monday night. But Gabe Vincent, who played one of his best games of the season against Brooklyn, was not concerned about how the loss might affect the team moving forward.

Nets fans should keep an eye on D’Angelo Russell for the rest of this regular season. He might be the weather vane to reveal what the team plans this offseason.

The Nets announced earlier in the day on Tuesday that guard D'Angelo Russell will not playing in Cleveland due to right ankle injury management. While Russell has been playing solid ball for Brooklyn this season,

D'Angelo Russell was traded this season from the Los Angeles Lakers to the Brooklyn Nets, and the guard has now opened up about his experience with the California-based franchise.

Russell made a blunt admission about his time with the Lakers in a new interview. The veteran guard said his most recent stint with the Lakers had left him “a little traumatized,” and that the move to Brooklyn had reinvigorated him.

Despite D’Angelo Russell nursing an ankle injury currently, it has been an interesting season to say the least for the veteran point guard as he was traded from the Los Angeles Lakers to the Brooklyn Nets earlier in the year.

Obviously, I was a little traumatized there," the Nets guard said. "I'm at the point in my career where I'm not going out and scoring 25 points every night and wowing with numbers. It's a point where I'm trying to gravitate towards doing it the right way,