Tag: Celebrations

The best NBA signature player celebrations

HoopsHype presents the best NBA signature player celebrations, from the Jordan ‘shrug’ to the LeBron ‘silencer’.

Besides being the best basketball league in the world, the NBA also features some of the best player celebrations, which fans all over copy while playing pick-up basketball.

LeBron James‘ ‘silencer’, Stephen Curry sending people to sleep, Carmelo Anthony’s three-point celebration, Dikembe Mutombo’s finger wag and, of course, the Michael Jordan ‘shrug’, still popular so many years later, are some of the most iconic player celebrations in the Association.

There are many more that we haven’t even mentioned yet, which you can check out below.

Here’s a gallery of the best NBA signature player celebrations in history. Which are your favorites?

Fred Van Vleet did Sam Cassell’s NSFW celebration in front of him and it was so fun

WOW I can’t believe he did that.

It’s early in the NBA season. Very early. But still, the Raptors have found themselves at 7-6 and are in the East’s playoff picture after so many people counted them out in the offseason.

A big part of that is Fred VanVleet. Dude is playing like an absolute All-Star this season. He’s been making big plays for the Raptors all year. He did it again on Thursday night against the 76ers,

He dropped 32 points, 7 assists and 6 rebounds to go along with one big 3-pointer he hit in the fourth quarter to essentially seal the game for the Raptors and give them the win.

And to throw a little cherry on top, he pulled out Sam Cassell’s infamous NSFW celebration after hitting his big shot.

The best part? He did it in front of Sam Cassell, who is an assistant coach for the 76ers.

MAN. That’s so fun. This is how you pay your respects to the big homies. Absolutely love to see it. Deep down, Cassell probably did, too.

This was awesome.

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Steph Curry granted a reporter’s request for a jet celebration after seeing a tweet at halftime

Steph Curry seems to be having a lot of fun.

Steph Curry is one of the most fun players in the NBA. It’s not because he’s extremely good at basketball — which, of course, he is. But it’s because it just doesn’t seem like he takes things too seriously. He has real fun with the game.

Case in point: During the Warriors’ game against the Cavaliers, Keirth Burke of NBC Sports Bay Area made a request to Curry at halftime for him to do an airplane celebration.

You know how it goes. The player hits a 3-point shot and then spreads their wings like an airplane as they get back on the other end of the floor.

It was a random request at halftime made via Twitter, so no one actually knew if Curry saw the tweet. She asked if he’d consider running down the court with his arms out like a “Stepherson Airplane.”

Low and behold, in the 4th quarter with the game in hand Curry busts out the plane celebration.

So awesome. Burke asked Curry about the celebration in his postgame press conference.

“Burke: Why the Airplane celebration?

Curry: You know exactly why.

Burke: I’m worried you may have opened Pandora’s box.

Curry: Possibly. We’ve got good mojo going right now. I just needed to give myself an opportunity to pull it out because I didn’t do anything to do that in the first half.”

Just incredible. That’s what fun on the basketball court looks like.

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Steph Curry’s teammate, Juan Toscano-Anderson, really started celebrating before he shot the ball

Talk about supreme confidence.

Stephen Curry is the best shooter of all-time so when he has the ball you should have the utmost confidence that he is about to do something good with the basketball as his teammate.

But, of course, no basket is guaranteed. Although, you couldn’t tell that to Warriors forward Juan Toscano-Anderson during Thursday night’s game against the Orlando Magic.

Curry was automatic in this one. He hit 10 3-pointers in the game and dropped 40 points in a 111-104 win for the Warriors.

One of those 3-pointers came off of a pass from Toscano-Anderson from the other side of the floor. And he was so confident that Stephen Curry would hit the shot that he started celebrating way before he actually took it.

That’s so wild. Talk about having extreme confidence in your squad.

Of course, we’ve seen this before with Draymond Green and even Curry himself. Still, it never gets old.

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From fireworks to dumpster fires, Dodgers fans celebrate in the streets

The scenes in Los Angeles following the Dodgers first World Series win since 1988 ranged from peaceful to fiery as fans hit the streets well into the night.

The scenes in Los Angeles following the Dodgers first World Series win since 1988 ranged from peaceful to fiery as fans hit the streets well into the night.

The Grizzlies stole the Nets’ viral celebration dance in their own building

The Grizzlies copied the Nets celebration while they dominated Brooklyn on Wednesday night.

They say that the NBA is a copycat league, and that apparently extends to team celebrations.

The Grizzlies blew the Nets out 118-79 on Wednesday night to push their current winning streak to three and bolster their playoff spot. That’s great news for them.

The best part, though? It was definitely the Grizzlies stealing the “Tati” dance from the Nets. The dance was Brooklyn’s signature team celebration last year that they took copied from rapper Tekashi 69’s “Tati” video. There are a ton of videos of them on the internet doing it.

The Grizzlies did it yesterday while crushing the Nets and it was hilarious. They had a good laugh doing it.

Oh, man, this is soooo good. You know what makes it even better? Music. Twitter did us a solid with this one.

This is incredible, man. The Nets don’t really do this as often anymore — probably because their season hasn’t been that fun. But it would be great if the Grizzlies could bring this back.

Please? For the culture.

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