{"id":392776,"date":"2022-06-17T15:25:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T15:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=392776"},"modified":"2022-06-17T15:25:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T15:25:25","slug":"klay-thompson-calls-grizzlies-star-jaren-jackson-jr-a-bum-in-shocking-outburst-after-warriors-win-nba-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/klay-thompson-calls-grizzlies-star-jaren-jackson-jr-a-bum-in-shocking-outburst-after-warriors-win-nba-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson calls Grizzlies star Jaren Jackson Jr a &#8216;bum&#8217; in shocking outburst after Warriors win NBA Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Klay Thompson clearly isn&#8217;t afraid to speak what&#8217;s on his mind. The <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nba\/nba-team-detail\/GS\/home\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> superstar recently won his fourth NBA Championship on Thursday night after the &#8216;Dubs&#8217; beat the Boston Celtics in six games at the 2022 NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>While many would assume that Klay would have forgotten about some of the feuds he and the Warriors had during the course of the season, the 32-year-old did not forget to call out the players who dissed his team.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_392780\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-392780\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-392780\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/1200x0-6-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/1200x0-6-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/1200x0-6-1024x706.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/1200x0-6-768x529.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/1200x0-6.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-392780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credits &#8211; SF Gate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a shocking interview after the Warriors beat the Celtics at the TD Garden, Klay Thompson hit back at Memphis Grizzlies player Jaren Jackson Jr. calling the 22-year-old a &#8216;bum&#8217; and a &#8216;clown&#8217; in a bizarre rant.<\/p>\n<h2>What did Klay Thompson say about Jaren Jackson Jr?<\/h2>\n<p>Although Klay didn&#8217;t mention Jackson by his name, it was clear who he was referring to when he was asked about some of the toughest challenges the team faced. The Warriors star said, &#8220;Strength in numbers. There was this one player on the Grizzlies who tweeted \u2018Strength in numbers\u2019 after they beat us. I was like, this freaking bum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Klay Thompson just destroyed Jaren Jackson Jr. for his March tweet:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#39;s this 1 Grizzlies player who tweeted &#39;Strength in Numbers&#39; after they beat us in the reg. season. It pissed me off so much. I can&#39;t wait to retweet that thing. Freakin bum.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6c5mbiS6fG\">pic.twitter.com\/6c5mbiS6fG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tomer Azarly (@TomerAzarly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomerAzarly\/status\/1537670483516215301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Klay then apologized briefly for going over the top and added, &#8220;OK, OK, OK, sorry. That memory just popped up. You&#8217;re going to mock us? Like, you ain&#8217;t ever been there before, bruh. We&#8217;ve been there, we know what it takes, so to be there again, hold that. Twitter fingers. I don&#8217;t forget. There were a lot of people kicking us down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Why did Klay Thompson hit out at Jaren Jackson Jr?<\/h2>\n<p>Back in March, the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Warriors 123-95 and Grizzlies star Jaren Jackson put out a tweet which read: &#8220;Strength in numbers,&#8221; followed by a clapping emoji. In that game, the Grizzlies beat a Warriors side that did not have either of the Big 3 &#8211; Curry, Thompson or Green.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Strength in numbers \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JJJ (@jarenjacksonjr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jarenjacksonjr\/status\/1508664030201794561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Klay Thompson appeared to have taken that dig a bit more seriously than the rest of the NBA and therefore, chose to call out Jackson after the Warriors won the Championship. While Thompson didn&#8217;t respond at the time of Jackson&#8217;s tweet, he clearly did not forget about the tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Klay Thompson clearly isn&#8217;t afraid to speak what&#8217;s on his mind. The Golden State Warriors superstar recently won his fourth NBA Championship on Thursday night after the &#8216;Dubs&#8217; beat the Boston Celtics in six games at the 2022 NBA Finals. While many would assume that Klay would have forgotten about some of the feuds he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":392779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,86,107,51],"tags":[11,707,302,1324,703,9],"class_list":["post-392776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boston-celtics","category-golden-state-warriors","category-memphis-grizzlies","category-nba","tag-boston-celtics","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-jaren-jackson-jr","tag-klay-thompson","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-nba"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}