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WATCH: Stephen Curry Was Absolutely Done With The Barrage Of Dunks From Giannis Antetokounmpo During NBA All Star Weekend 2017

Published 07/28/2022, 3:00 PM EDT

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Two players whom all of the NBA hate to go up against are Stephen Curry and Giannis Antetokounmpo. Not because they don’t like them, but just because they can irritate the soul out of them. Giannis’ abilities to dunk over and block shots of anyone and everyone. Stephen Curry’s ability to shoot threes and show off his handles anytime and anywhere. These abilities sure do get in the heads of the players and thus, they hate when these two get going.

Be it double team or even triple teams, the shooter’s gonna shoot and the dunker’s gonna poster. But have you ever wondered what would happen if one of these got irritated of the other? What would they do? Well, read ahead to know what happens.

The moment when Stephen Curry had enough of Giannis Antetokounmpo

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Throwback to the 2017 all-star game when the Eastern Conference starter Giannis irritated the Western Conference starter Curry. The game started with LeBron, Giannis, Irving, DeRozan, Butler and Curry, Durant, Harden, Kawhi, Davis as starting line-ups.

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7 minutes into the game, Giannis started doing what he does the best- dunking on people. Moreover, his victim was Curry, twice.

6’3″ Steph couldn’t do much against the 6’11” giant and all he could do was be humiliated. Curry bore it once, he dealt with it twice. The third time, when Giannis got the ball on the fast-break off the steal, see what Curry did by yourself.

 

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Curry, to the crowds and players’ humor, just laid down and let Giannis go through. Funnily, he didn’t even try defending the ‘Greek Freak’ and let the truck go ahead and do the throw down. This surely was one of the blooper highlights of the night.

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The 2017 all-star game was surely one to remember, considering the humorous and excellent performances by the players. What has been your favorite all-star game moment over the years? Let us know in the comments!

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