Trae Young followed through on his promise to steal James Harden’s motivational IG caption

Man of his word.

Thus far this season, Trae Young has picked right up from where his strong second half of a rookie season left off. He’s averaging 28 points and 8.7 assists per game. He became the third player in NBA history to have multiple 40-point, 10-assist games before turning 22 — the other two were LeBron James and Michael Jordan.

So, yeah, Trae Young is good.

But as you probably remember, there was a time when many NBA fans and experts believed that the Hawks made a franchise-crushing misstep in trading Luka Doncic for Young and a pick that eventually became Cam Reddish. Young remembers that criticism.

So, after Atlanta’s 125-121 win over the Nuggets on Tuesday, Young took to Twitter with a motivational tweet.

The caption may look familiar because, well, James Harden used the exact same caption on an Instagram post earlier this week.

Young liked it so much that he told Harden he was going to steal the caption. And he did! Young was man of his word after pouring in 42 points and 11 assists against Denver.

NBA fans noticed the familiar caption.

I guess there’s no originality in NBA Instagram captions these days — such a shame.

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