Watch: Steph Curry's signature move gets turned against him in Game 5 loss
What goes around comes around.
Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry is known for doing his signature shimmy move after making a big basket, like he did in Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals against the Rockets.
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Curry drained a three-pointer that put the Warriors up 78-56 and celebrated by doing the shimmy down the court. The Warriors won that game 126-85 to take a 2-1 series lead.
But Rockets point guard Chris Paul remembered that and did a little celebrating of his own after hitting a ridiculous three-pointer right in Curry’s face during Game 5 Thursday night.
Chris Paul hits the shot then tells Steph Curry “Shimmy shimmy ya, shimmy yam, shimmy yay!”
— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) May 25, 2018
With Curry all over him, Paul hit a fall-back three with an extremely high degree of difficulty as the shot clock expired. The bucket gave the Warriors a two-point lead roughly midway through the third quarter.
Chris Paul gave Steph Curry a taste of his own shimmy medicine
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— NOTSportsCenter (@NOTSportsCenter) May 25, 2018
Running back down the court, Paul got in Curry’s face and did his own little shimmy right in front of him. The Rockets went on to win a 98-94 thriller to take a 3-2 series lead.
YOOOOO @CP3 IM DEAD 😂😂😂😂😂😂
— Donovan Mitchell (@spidadmitchell) May 25, 2018
Curry took Paul’s mocking well, just smiling it off. After the game, he said that he had it coming.
“It was well-deserved. It was a tough shot,” Curry said of Paul and his shimmy. “If you can shimmy on somebody else, you’ve got to be all right getting shimmied on. So I’ll keep shimmying, and maybe he will too.”
Lol I see you cp
— Eric Bledsoe (@EBled2) May 25, 2018
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Paul left the game in the final seconds of the game with a hamstring injury and wasn’t on the floor when the final buzzer sounded. He did not hold a news conference after the game, and was later ruled out for Game 6 on Saturday.
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