The NBA All-Star Sport in Cleveland, Ohio on Sunday evening noticed the reunion of a number of greats for the Seventy fifth-anniversary group and was attended by a bunch of celebrities.
Nonetheless, it was the reignition of the long-standing feud between former Boston Celtics teammates Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen that has everybody speaking after the pair’s awkward interplay went viral.
The occasion honored the league’s 75 greatest gamers in its historical past in a halftime ceremony led by director Spike Lee.
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A lot of former Celtics gamers made the reduce for the highest 75, together with former teammates Paul Pierce, Garnett and Allen, who received an NBA championship in 2008.
A clip is now going viral—with greater than 1.2 million views on the time of publishing—that exhibits Allen ignoring Garnett as he stepped on the stage and as an alternative dapped up LeBron James.
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The second noticed NBA Twitter explode with the awkward interplay frightening a tsunami of memes and jokes.
“KG despising Ray Allen is so fully pointless however it’s completely hilarious,” tweeted author Brady Klopfer.
Whereas sports activities reporter Conor Ryan added: “Drained: Kanye and Pete Davidson is the highest celeb beef Wired: Kevin Garnett vs. Ray Allen in the identical constructing.”
“LeBron dapping up Ray Allen whereas a salty Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce look on is wonderful,” reads one other tweet.
“This Image of Ray Allen, Lebron James and Kevin Garnett is the funniest factor I’ve ever seen #NBAAllStar,” mentioned one other.
“@KevinGarnett5KG face after Ray Allen ain’t dap him is priceless #NBAAllStar,” mentioned one other.
“Kevin Garnett’s face whereas Ray Allen and LeBron dap up.”
Garnett has spoken frankly about his strained relationship with Allen with their feud beginning when he left the Celtics to play for rival group Miami Warmth again in 2012.
“I have been very vocal on my distaste for what Ray did, that was actual for everyone that was concerned,” Garnett advised the Boston Globe in April 2020.
“That is actual life. We was in an actual beef with Miami on the time and similar to if somebody was to go from the Lakers to the Celtics, and vice versa. Nobody will converse on the underlyings of it, however that was an actual factor. Miami and Boston. That was an actual factor.”
He added: “Ray decided; I would not anticipate Ray to be at something of mine. And vice versa. If I see him, I will converse. I will say hey to his household like all the time. He is aware of that call altered and made us all really feel completely different.”
Allen would go on to win an NBA championship with the Miami Warmth in 2013.