Lakers star Nick Young thought he was gonna go into real-life survival mode after hearing that a real “purge” was happening.  He later found out it was all a hoax and he was quite relieved.

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Young told TMZ Sports, “I thought I was gonna have to shoot a couple people.”

People were trying to scare the public into thinking the “everything is legal for 24 hours including murder” plot from the “Purge” movies was going down in two major cities.

Young didn’t know it was a joke on Tuesday and tweeted as if it were real saying, “So they got a real life purge in Chi-town and Milwaukee that’s crazy. We need to wake up for real if that’s true.”