Brace for impact,Australia folks. This is officially a full-on Twitter war.
A pre-existing feud between former NBA star Shaquille O'Neill and Golden State Warriors center JaVale McGee flared up again late Thursday night with a series of hot tweets, the content of which included violent threats, nut emoji and not-so-savory photoshopped images.
SEE ALSO: In pep talk fail, Jameis Winston tells elementary school girls they're 'supposed to be silent'First, some context.
Shaq — an analyst on TNT's Inside the NBA— hosts a segment called "Shaqtin' a Fool," which essentially exists to troll NBA players. McGee — who has found new life with the Warriors this season — has long been known as a walking lowlight reel, with a wealth of missed free throws, botched dunks and just general clumsiness to his name. He's a consistent target of Shaq's segment but isn't too happy about it.
McGee threw some shade at the segment in October, and the two had a minor exchange on Twitter in January, but things really went south this week.
After the Warriors' 123-113 win over the Clippers on Thursday, Shaq aired a hilarious Dr. Strange parody — featuring all of McGee's worst gaffes — to troll Golden State's center once again.
Doctor Strange JaVale McGee#DubNation pic.twitter.com/L55So9WDcZ
— CandidSkeptic (@candid_skeptic) February 24, 2017
McGee had enough. He fired back with a bomb.
@SHAQ get my 🥜's out of your mouth! And EAD! #thatisall
— Javale McGee (@JaValeMcGee34) February 24, 2017
If you're curious what EAD means, might we suggest the Urban Dictionary definition. It was enough to really rile up Shaq, who took things in a violent direction.
@JaValeMcGee34 don't be acting like u a g I'll smack the s**t out yo bum ass u da one that be looking stupid with your dumb ass #bumass
— SHAQ (@SHAQ) February 24, 2017
@JaValeMcGee34 now since you on a good team u wanna act like you a player now stop it u will only be remembered for shaqtin a fool #bumass
— SHAQ (@SHAQ) February 24, 2017
McGee's frequent burn for Shaq is his age. He resorted to that one again.
Forget being on a good team... Ima grown man... you've had these 🥜's in yo mouth for 5-6 years now... u thought I was just gone stay silent? https://t.co/3gTpTgVgmU
— Javale McGee (@JaValeMcGee34) February 24, 2017
Shaq finished off the battle with some handy photo editing, the contents of which are still up for debate.
America meet Javale "BUM" McGee pic.twitter.com/ENw4VLE5I7
— SHAQ (@SHAQ) February 24, 2017
Considering Shaq first made the "bum" comment at 12:57 a.m., he either 1) has a bank of edited photos waiting to be unleashed, or 2) is secretly a photoshop wizard and scrapped it together in by 1:05 a.m.
Either way, this explosion was a long time coming, and it's safe to bet we haven't seen the last of the Twitter beef between these two.
To be continued...
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