In late March after a 123–95 blowout win over the Warriors, Grizzlies forward Jaren Jackson poked fun at one of the team’s slogans, tweeting “Strength in numbers.” Golden State star Klay Thompson has been using that slight as motivation ever since, and brought it up after his team captured its fourth NBA championship in eight years on Thursday night.
“Strength in numbers is alive and well,” Thompson said during the post-game press conference, laughing as he remembered Jackson’s tweet. “There was this one player on the Grizzlies who tweeted ‘Strength in numbers’ after they beat us in the regular season, and it pissed me off so much. I can’t wait to retweet that thing. Freakin’ bum. I had to watch that. I’m just like, ‘This freakin’ clown.’
“Okay. Sorry, that memory just popped up. Gonna mock us? You ain’t ever been there before, bruh. We’ve been there before, we know what it takes. So to be here again, hold that… Twitter fingers, can you believe it?”
