NBA Trash Talking That Legitimately Went Too Far

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
These are the 25 biggest mind games in NBA history. And up first, watch Amari Stoudamire absolutely violate Shane Baddie.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:09)
He defends by Chalmers, he's been freed by Stoudamire, he goes inside and he goes to foul and he's gone.

**Reggie Miller** (0:16)
Dunks over him, puts his hand down like he wants to help him up, and then takes it away. I mean, what is up with that?

**SPEAKER_1** (0:22)
My man went to help Baddie her up, realized the Knicks were down 3 to 1, and then changed his mind. Uncanny. But at least there's hope for Stoudemire. Paul Pierce, on the other hand, not so much.
Come on man, that's cold-blooded, but not as cold-blooded as what LeBron once did to Ben Simmons, because one time, LeBron got in his head so badly, Simmons actually attempted a three.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:01)
Simmons surveying out front. LeBron laying all the way back in the key. Daring him to shoot, Simmons does.
There's Simmons, LeBron just playing free safety, laying back in the key.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:16)
Yes, Greg, definitely, definitely already in the battle.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:19)
Ben Simmons took a three, and you could hear the fans gonna rise up.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:23)
Don't worry though, Ben. LeBron lives rent-free in everyone's head. Ain't that right, Nicks?

**SPEAKER_5** (1:27)
Impeccable motor every single night. And he's used that as motivation to get him into that motor mode.
Clarkson has a pretty good motor himself going right now. He's revving it up, he's got 14

**SPEAKER_4** (1:39)
I believe things will change.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:41)
Wow, one pass and the entire team is tripping. But if you thought that play was mental, you ain't seen anything yet. Cause still to come, it's the time Lance Stevenson was blowing kisses, or better yet, it's the time Marcus Smart owned James Harden for an entire minute. Only first, it's the time Kobe Bryant put one trash talker in his place.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:00)
He was leaning on him, trying to move him off.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:02)
He should make it.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:03)
28 seconds to play, Kobe and Ron still talking.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:06)
I'm surprised the officials are allowing you.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:08)
I mean, seriously, they should tell both of them.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:11)
Knock it off.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:15)
There are three types of people you don't mess with. Your parents, your teachers, and the Black Mamba. However, it's one thing to mess with Kobe. It's another to go against Larry Bird in the three-point contest. Because heading into the 1988 three-point contest, Bird's confidence was through the roof. So when Bird entered the All-Star locker room, he asked, who's coming in second? Yeah. And then afterward, this happened.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:37)
He has 60 seconds, 25 balls.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:39)
He has to beat 15 points, a slow start.

**SPEAKER_8** (2:42)
But he warms up as he gets going.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:46)
Three points out of the first record.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:49)
He's all over the place in this rack.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:51)
Usually, he comes back with that big money ball that keeps him close.

**SPEAKER_8** (2:54)
He's hit both the money balls, both the two-point balls. It's like he's over-adjusting. He's come up short, and then he's all of a sudden throws it a little bit long. He certainly doesn't have that normal Bird rhythm going for himself. He does not.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:05)
And 25 seconds remaining.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:06)
He has only seven, has to beat 15

**SPEAKER_8** (3:09)
That's eight, making nine, and ten, and 11 as we're counting. 13

**SPEAKER_1** (3:17)
Huge rack that time for Bird.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:21)
14

**SPEAKER_8** (3:22)
This is a tie for the money.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:27)
Larry Bird!

**SPEAKER_1** (3:28)
First, the smack talk. Then, competing with his warm-up jacket still on, somebody needs to humble this dude. And you know who else needs to be humbled? LeBron James. One time, fans decided to take matters into their own hands.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:40)
An interesting thing to watch. Team LeBron against team Giannis. Rajon steps out of the court here, with 1.3 remaining in the quarter.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:52)
And with 1.3, this is where, if you make the free throw, you make the...

**SPEAKER_1** (3:55)
Hold up, how the hawks gonna disrespect LeBron when they haven't even won a championship yet? Shaking my head. That said, LeBron can handle some smack talk, but what he can't handle is bad calls.

**SPEAKER_2** (4:05)
And now it's the Lakers. LeBron glances at the shot clock, and it's thrown out of bounds.

**SPEAKER_5** (4:11)
It hit somebody's foot.

**SPEAKER_8** (4:12)
Well, that's what LeBron is saying. It hit somebody's foot.

**SPEAKER_2** (4:16)
So that complaint by LeBron turns over a call that should not have been. It was the correct call to begin with.