{"id":285942,"date":"2025-08-13T22:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/285942\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T22:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:59:14","slug":"nfl-star-malik-nabers-honors-kyren-lacy-with-thigh-pad-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/285942\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Star Malik Nabers Honors Kyren Lacy With Thigh Pad Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Giants&#8217; Malik Nabers<br \/>\n                          Pays Tribute To Kyren Lacy<br \/>\n                          &#8230; With Custom Thigh Pad<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published August 13, 2025 2:03 PM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250813_547457dbb855477baf717b64328cd238\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:69406415-e79a-4db5-a57f-a7d1c16f4f6f\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/547457dbb855477baf717b64328cd238_md.jpg\" alt=\"Kyren Lacy Malik nabers tribue to his friend getty comp\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers continues to honor his friend and former teammate Kyren Lacy following his passing &#8230; by showing off a personalized thigh pad featuring the two together.<\/p>\n<p>Nabers unveiled his new gear on his Instagram Wednesday &#8230; along with the caption, &#8220;\ud83d\udc9e\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffd&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250813_b8299d2caf1d48ccbdf71c960ed1ebd4\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:69406415-e79a-4db5-a57f-a7d1c16f4f6f\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/b8299d2caf1d48ccbdf71c960ed1ebd4_md.jpg\" alt=\"Kyren Lacy Malik nabers tribue to his friend instagram\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>After Lacy&#8217;s tragic death in April, Nabers posted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DIbk-_-RNBC\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">emotional tribute<\/a> to his former teammate on social media &#8230; saying he was &#8220;f***in hurt&#8221; by the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pain. Numb. Sad. Sorrowful. Downcast. Hurt. Broken. Devastated. Empty. Miserable,&#8221; Nabers said in the Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This the first day of my life I felt the world go by slower then it ever did\ud83e\udd7a\ud83e\udd7a I can play back every memory in my head and you saying I ain&#8217;t gone be able to joce wit ya nomo??!!! WHAT? You serious 2??\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d #dontplay2.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nabers and Lacy were members of the LSU Tigers roster during the 2022 and 2023 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250414_6424e18de5d4402580b955007863a185\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:69406415-e79a-4db5-a57f-a7d1c16f4f6f\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6424e18de5d4402580b955007863a185_md.jpg\" alt=\"malik-nabers-kyren-lacy-lsu-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beyond the thigh pad, Nabers said in an interview with Bleacher Report he plans to incorporate Lacy&#8217;s touchdown celebration whenever he finds the endzone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Imma be switching out of those dances that he used to do when we used to play together, so just to honor him and everybody remember his name. So I would just wanna, you know, show gratitude to him, so a couple of his dances I&#8217;m gonna be showing during the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for your permission to load TikTok Post.<\/p>\n<p>Lacy &#8212; an NFL hopeful &#8212; was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/01\/10\/kyren-lacy-wanted\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accused of killing a 78-year-old man<\/a> in a car accident in December 2024. He eventually turned himself in to the police, and a grand jury was slated to hear evidence in the case the day after he died by suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Lacy was only 24.<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giants&#8217; Malik Nabers Pays Tribute To Kyren Lacy &#8230; With Custom Thigh Pad Published August 13, 2025 2:03&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1917,56,88,2321,2469,6,9,266,4429],"class_list":{"0":"post-285942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkgiants","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-news","18":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115023941775549589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}