?You Sound Like a Fan Boy?: Ja Morant?s 1 Word Response to the Stephen Curry Celebration Trend Has NBA Twitter in Splits

Ja Morant led the Memphis grizzlies to a flawless regular season. They managed to secure the second seed in the Western Conference. This season was a much better one than their previous outing where they made the play-in tournament. In the 2020-21 season, Memphis eliminated a short-handed Golden State Warriors team led by star player Stephen Curry. This sparked an exchange of words on social media between the two teams. In the 2021-22 playoffs, Golden State was the one to eliminate Memphis. The two teams battled it on the court and bantered off-court on social media.

Often, Ja Morant did his antagonizing taunt, called the ‘griddy’ when they defeated Golden State Warriors in a game. Right after, Stephen Curry retaliated with the same energy and hit them with a ‘Night-Night’ Celebration. Teammate Draymond and Ja followed this jawing at each other on Twitter Morant called curry his favorite match-up as he let everyone know that the feud was competitiveness and not controversy.

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Ja recently brought the banter back to Twitter a week after the Warriors took the Larry O’Brien trophy home. He mocked the ‘Night-Night’ celebration in a tweet.

Ja Morant takes a dig at Stephen Curry by mocking his celebration in a recent tweet

The NBA Twitter went all out on the tweet. Ja and Draymond had already broken the Twitter fandom with their week-long feud, but fans thoroughly enjoyed roasting Morant on this tweet. Here are some of the reactions and the original tweet:

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The tweet became a viral topic of discussion as it garnered 30,000 likes and 1550 retweets.

Will the Ja and the Warriors repartee ever end?

The warriors and Grizzlies saga started when Jaren Jackson Jr tweeted ‘strength in numbers’ mocking the warriors’ motto. Klay Thompson waited a whole year to clap back at the Grizzly. Thompson called Jackson “that freaking bum”.

The warriors were all keeping their receipts for what was said about them during their decline. They were quick to climb back as they won their 4th NBA Championship with the Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, and Klay Thompson core.

In game-5 of the Western Conference Semi-Finals, Morant and the entire stadium celebrated a blowout 134-95 victory, and the FedEx Forum arena erupted. There were chants directed at Stephen Curry that said ‘Whoop that trick’. Continuing the saga, the Warriors made a call back to that on their Championship rally. Warrior fans chanting “Whoop that trick”.

It appears that the Twitter rivalry is a never-ending one. Moreover, NBA analysts project the Warriors and Grizzlies to meet again in the playoffs next season. This time, the matchup would be more entertaining, with all the social media banter. The 2022-23 season will involve a lot of trash talking. Memphis Grizzlies might want to back all their talk by defeating the Warriors with a healthy Ja Morant this time. Furthermore, the Warriors would want to extend their dynasty and teach the youngster to put respect to their name.

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Let us know in the comments if Ja got the better of the Warriors and Stephen Curry in this interchange.