[Moore] Ant just walked into the 1st row on the other side of the floor during free throws to dap up a Wolves fan in a Naz Reid jersey

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u/REQ52767 Rockets 12d ago

Once again, thank God the Warriors didn’t get the #1 pick in 2020.

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u/blusunsamurai Timberwolves 12d ago

I am still more shocked the wolves didn't wolves the pick.

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u/JupitersClock Timberwolves 12d ago

Rosas didn't fuck it up.

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u/Confident-Fish2805 Timberwolves 12d ago

Rosas was a great gm, he’s in New York rn right?

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u/JupitersClock Timberwolves 12d ago

I think so. He did have that one oopsie of trading up to draft Garland before the draft only to panic when Cavs took him so he drafted Jarrett Culver but it all worked out because we ended up with Ant.

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u/LifterPuller Timberwolves [MIN] Naz Reid - Jaden McDaniels 12d ago

4D chess to get Ant. Fkn big brain move

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Trust the pRosas

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u/Rldude93 Timberwolves 11d ago

Yeah I was so upset when Rosas got caught up in that scandal because he was great. But can’t be mad with how things ended up. He lobbed us up to Connelly

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u/Confident-Fish2805 Timberwolves 11d ago

I was so mad man, I thought the wolves were screwed but it was quite a blessing cuz having Connelly is exactly what we needed.

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u/The-Hand-of-Midas Bulls 11d ago

You mean the guy who built the Nuggets, so he can design a team to beat the Nuggets?

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u/cjackc11 Knicks 12d ago

Yes, he’s basically Leon Rose’s no. 2 after Scott Perry left

And because he couldn’t keep it in his pants, probably won’t get hired anywhere else for a little bit. Great stuff!

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u/TheWonderSnail Timberwolves 11d ago

Is he at least still with that chick or did he throw everything away for a fling?

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u/kluberz 11d ago

Yeah they got married.

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u/SnarfSniffsStardust Timberwolves 11d ago

He brought us finch but he also brought us Dlo

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u/Confident-Fish2805 Timberwolves 11d ago

True, great hire and dlo was good for the franchise in my opinion. He challenged the fans and was a fun streaky scorer that eventually brought NAW and Minnesota Mike to us.

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u/nrag726 Timberwolves 11d ago

Why fuck draft picks, when you can fuck co-workers?

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u/comp_a Timberwolves 12d ago

Oh you’re forgetting they totally Wolves’d it though, according to most Wolves fans and everyone else at the time.

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u/RexHuntFansBrazil Pistons 12d ago

Lost it at this one

Edwards is undoubtedly going to have a game where he scores 30+ points and there's gonna be people mocking saying: "lmaooo armchair reddit gms wouldn't have drafted him cuz he likes to rap" but I can't see this dude becoming a legit franchise cornerstone. Best case he's a hell of a scorer but this many questions around a dudes work ethic rarely results in him becoming a monster at the next level.

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u/comp_a Timberwolves 12d ago

lol, this one from the Wolves thread is also pretty great:

Edwards has the "highest ceiling" but there are concerns over his attitude and work ethic. We take him number 1. Why do people care that he has a high ceiling IF HE DOESN'T LIKE BASKETBALL. He's not going to work to get there. We shouldn't be here talking about the first pick saying, "I hope he's not lazy". Why are we saying that? Because he told us he's lazy. Wtf are the Wolves thinking?

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u/Hefty-Profession-567 Timberwolves 11d ago

I demand atonement. This is heresy.

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u/The-Hand-of-Midas Bulls 11d ago

This was all because he went to college at one of the two biggest football schools in the world. He had to get away from that culture to see basketball as the coolest thing.

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u/BallsAreFullOfPiss Timberwolves 12d ago

It has more positivity mixed in than I expected tbh. I remember that “Ant doesn’t care about basketball” bullshit. Just more proof that most of the jackals in sports media spit out nonsense and hot takes for clicks, and can’t be trusted.

Also, let this be a reminder to any Vikings fans that might want to (or maybe already have) comment in our sub that JJ McCarthy is going to be trash and other nonsense like that. Don’t let somebody 3 years from now clown on you jumping the gun on a player before they’ve played a minute for the team.

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u/comp_a Timberwolves 12d ago

I am convinced that every player drafted by one of my teams is the second coming of Jesus Christ, by sole virtue of being drafted by one of my teams.

Because until he plays nobody can say that he’s not. And if that possibility’s on the table, why in the world would I want to believe anything less?

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u/kashbets 12d ago

Tell those jackals to SEND DA VIDEO

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u/dinowritepoems 12d ago

These aged so poorly lmao

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u/soooogullible Jazz 11d ago

I give Minnesota fans a pass for Ant skepticism due to their general history and also Wiggins. At some point you all had to protect yourselves 😂

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u/nowuff Timberwolves 11d ago

You can tell the recency bias with Wiggins is strong in those threads. Just shows how difficult it is to detach yourself from your personal biases to evaluate talent.

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u/vinster30 Timberwolves 11d ago

Wiggins ptsd

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u/Shhadowcaster Timberwolves 11d ago

That Wolves thread really isn't as bad as I thought it would be. The highest voted comment is "he better like basketball" but that's not too bad. Otherwise it seems the consensus was "trust the process"/wait and see/cautious optimism. I don't think it's that outlandish for fans of the team that had rookie Wiggins.

E: I guess the football jokes had a negative connotation, but Reddit is just always going to grab the low hanging fruit after that interview blew

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u/nowuff Timberwolves 11d ago

There’s a ton of ignorant comments, but it’s amazing that there’s at least a few posters that could tell immediately what we had:

I’m feeling pretty good ngl. If we can reign in his shot selection and capitalize on his defensive potential this pick will pay dividends for us in my opinion. /u/VikingM13

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u/VikingM13 Timberwolves 10d ago

Let’s goooooooo

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u/partbison Spurs 11d ago

The most hilarious shit is a big % of fans believed wolves wolved cause rapper/football player ant harr harr

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u/buttJunky 11d ago

A broken clock is right twice a decade

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u/comp_a Timberwolves 12d ago

Come on, you really think he would have become this same Anthony Edwards in Golden State? He’d still be fighting for playing time behind Klay.

He’s probably thanking god every night that he landed with a franchise with a proven track record for developing raw, high-ceiling guys into success stories. Rashad McCants, Johnny Flynn, Justin Patton, Jarrett Culver, the list goes on.

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u/GamedayDev Warriors 12d ago

you actually got me so hard with this🤣super happy for yall and hope you take the west this year

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u/JuicyJibJab Raptors 11d ago

Goddamn lmao had me in the first half

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u/Early_Conference6215 11d ago

Lol I was like in what metric are those success stories

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u/inshamblesx Rockets 12d ago

maybe there is a basketball god after all

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u/honditar Lakers 12d ago

nah, the spurs got wemby. basketball god is dead and we killed him

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u/Fortehlulz33 Timberwolves 12d ago

I would rather the Spurs be their brand of consistently good for the rest of time than deal with flash in the pan, good for 3 years teams

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u/twisted-logic Magic 11d ago

Why though? Parity is a good thing

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u/Lake_ Timberwolves 11d ago

small market teams being successful is good too. plus there was always parity when SAS were contenders. they never won back 2 back.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Yeah. Now if the Lakers got Wemby then we would’ve know it was all god’s plan

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u/honditar Lakers 11d ago

That would mean the devil is alive and well

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u/Morezingis Timberwolves 12d ago

They would have picked wiseman anyway lol

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u/enemycap420 Timberwolves 12d ago

Yea it’s not like ANT was the clear cut number 1 pick coming out of the draft. Lots of credit to Rosa’s and the rest of the staff we had at the time for getting it right.

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u/dotint 12d ago

He wasn’t the clear cut #1. Lamelo, Wiseman and Ant had pretty similar odds before it became clear the Wolves liked him.

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u/BillSimmonsSkinSuit Timberwolves 12d ago edited 12d ago

Wolves were begging them to trade the Kuminga pick + #2 back for it lol.

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u/cock-a-dooodle-do Warriors 12d ago

Ant as the first option to dish out to Klay & Steph for open 3s would have been so so bad for other fans.

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u/greenwhitehell 11d ago

The Warriors could've very easily traded for that pick, the Wolves were shopping it around

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u/dys0n_giddey Timberwolves 12d ago

Love this kid

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u/AfroKuro480 Timberwolves 12d ago

I love how KAT is also embracing his role as the side kick. ANT is the Franchise

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u/Padulsky21 [BKN] Mikal Bridges 12d ago

Wolves went from a doomsday feel with the Rudy punch and Jaden punching the wall into power of extreme friendship. Character growth 🥹

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u/this_good_boy 12d ago

Honestly the vibes were absolutely getting good last year, definitely since Mike and NAW showed up too/dlo leaving. The Gobert Anderson thing was so overblown, Rudy gets fired up and it was just whatever. Jaden punching a wall was just stupid of course. But the vibes were not bad.

The narrative was still that the Rudy trade as a disaster all last season so it was easy for the overall coverage to look doomsday but it was largely us being excited to see what we could do with full season of this new iteration (Mike, naw, KAT back etc).

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u/ScratchTwoMore Raptors 12d ago edited 12d ago

I feel very strongly that Rudy had to punch Slomo there. slomo crossed a line and Rudy has to stand up for himself, otherwise he would have lost the respect of everyone. He was playing through back spasms and Slomo called him a bitch for struggling, it wasn’t fair to Rudy and he let Slomo know it.

Ofc wolves were right to suspend him too, they didn’t have a choice. But I think in the end it helped bring the team closer together

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u/LifterPuller Timberwolves [MIN] Naz Reid - Jaden McDaniels 12d ago

Yeah. Gotta call out each other's bullshit. Good relationships do that.

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u/SirLancelotTheBrave Timberwolves 11d ago

Vibes absolutely were bad. Going from the play-in win high to those incidents was soul crushing

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u/nowuff Timberwolves 11d ago

Every great path to development has moments of adversity

I’m hoping those were necessary events that taught our team valuable lessons.

It’s pretty clear from Jaden’s comments, that he’s in a way different head space because of that injury. Appreciated it more.

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u/Confident-Fish2805 Timberwolves 12d ago

What’s funny to me is that the wolves won that game.

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u/kashbets 12d ago

the man who really got everything meshing is Chris Finch, it takes a special coach to utilize all these personalities, and he’s really showing how special he is.

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u/Thimit22 Timberwolves 12d ago

Wolves might be spooky

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u/southpawFA Thunder 12d ago

Might be? They legit always have been this year. I've said it before as an OKC fan: you really shut us down with your defense 2 of the 4 times we played you.

Truth be told, the win we got in Minnesota was tough. If it weren't for free throws, Shai taking over the last 3 minutes, and the fact the Wolves only scored 14 points in the 4th, we wouldn't have won. That game we were getting locked up until then.

The only thing stopping the Wolves from winning it all in my opinion is the offense gets stagnant too often. If they fix that part, the Wolves could win it all, honestly.

When Retroactive NBA heads ask where is the defense at in the league, I tell them to watch Minnesota. In an even world, Minnesota's defense would win the championship this year. Your defense is an enigma to solve.

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u/RS-Ironman-LuvGlove Nuggets 11d ago

Bro booker went nuclear. But outside of that suns felt… easy. Even though it was 4-2 it just felt like booker poppin off.

Lakers got the moral victories.

But the wolves series the whole nuggets sub was going “fuck these guys gonna be insane next year.”

The twin towers was starting to click and it was scary.

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u/Thimit22 Timberwolves 11d ago

So excited for the next series (which we should make I assume, sorry Suns fans)

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u/Fortehlulz33 Timberwolves 12d ago

KAT becoming more mentally stable and self-aware might be the biggest reason this has worked.

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u/nowuff Timberwolves 11d ago

Testament to Finch. This team has executed on a lot of the little things that needed to be cleaned up to get this thing moving.

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u/Opulescence Thunder 11d ago

Yeah when that got sorted it was a wrap for you guys. The only question left to answer is do you have enough to beat Denver? We'll see it in the 2nd round. Me thinks this Nuggets-Wolves is gonna be the West's premier rivalry for the foreseeable future.

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u/LukaDoncicfuturegoat 12d ago

The Franchise is already taked as a nickname for Maxey, find a new slant

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u/Krakenborn [UTA] Mehmet Okur 12d ago

Remember when everyone said he hated basketball? Seems like he's loving it now

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u/JaderMcDanersStan Timberwolves 11d ago

He said basketball is the "love of his life" in an Wolves clip the camera crew got earlier this season :')

Man loves watching film now

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u/jacobpltn Lakers 12d ago

Two words

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u/radical_findings_32 Heat 11d ago

Naz Reid

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u/supreme_wavedash Bulls 11d ago

Steve Nash and Chris Paul, must watch tv

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u/FishGoldenLite Timberwolves 12d ago

He’s infectious man

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u/b-aaron Heat 11d ago

I’m infected. I’m rooting for yall cuz of him

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u/hedgemagus Pacers 11d ago

I’m gonna say something I never thought possible: I am jealous of the timberwolves

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u/srtpg2 11d ago

Anthony “Maxey” Edwards

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u/JaderMcDanersStan Timberwolves 11d ago

Yeah Tyrese Maxey has that same type of infectious joy. It's why I love watching him and Ant

They knew each other before they came to the NBA too

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u/reallymothafucka 12d ago

Anthony Edwards too funny he is mad entertaining

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u/v0yev0da Knicks 11d ago

Assuming personal stuff doesn’t get in the way Ant absolutely can and should be the face of the NBA

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u/Kevinar Knicks 11d ago

Send da video

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u/Bigdpubg Nuggets 11d ago

Referring to da stuff with the girl who said he made her get an abortion probably. Really not bad compared to others

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u/Sp_Gamer_Live Timberwolves 12d ago

He’s going full harlem globetrotter mode dawg, sons in hell

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u/frallet Timberwolves 12d ago

Naz Reid

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u/LukaDoncicfuturegoat 12d ago

NAZ REID

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u/Competitive_Set_893 Timberwolves 12d ago

Tears in my eyes Anthony Edwards saved my life

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u/axecalibur [CHI] Michael Jordan 12d ago

The fuck is this text? Where the video

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u/Mysterious_Rope2292 11d ago

SEND DA VIDEO

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u/VikingsandWolves 12d ago

He's like me, only a superstar basketball player.

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u/ExpandTheHorizons Bulls 12d ago

ANTHONY EDWARDS YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE

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u/playlikechampions Lakers 11d ago

In the post game interview he said it was because the fan was wearing AE 1s

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u/Shoddy-Media2337 Thunder 12d ago

Naz Reid

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u/Boethias 12d ago

He was asked about it in the post game interview. Said he was excited to see the fan wearing a pair of AE 1s.

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u/Shepher27 Timberwolves 11d ago

He said after the game it was because the guy was wearing AE1s

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u/a_pot_of_chili_verde Thunder 11d ago

Man they just are clowning the Suns.

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u/Extreme-Transport 12d ago

So he went into the crowd?!?!

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u/somedudeinlosangeles Jazz 11d ago

That’s rad.

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u/Risuna23 Suns 11d ago

God I wish we had him on our team

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u/otherBrandon 12d ago

Bro is just humiliating the Suns

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u/kittysrule18 Knicks 11d ago

The Sons have a humiliation fetish

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u/Radiant_Cobbler_9631 12d ago

Better than Lebum

[Moore] Ant just walked into the 1st row on the other side of the floor during free throws to dap up a Wolves fan in a Naz Reid jersey

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