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When you troll Steph Curry, you better be prepared to get it back twice as hard.

Curry and the Golden State Warriors rolled to an easy 133-110 win over the Houston Rockets Thursday night. And Curry had some fun late in the game at the expense of Rockets forward Tari Eason.

The 22-year-old Eason, a 2022 first-round pick, arrived at the game wearing a T-shirt referencing the 1979 cult classic film, The Warriors, featuring the movie’s classic phrase, “Warriors, come out to play!” Eason had also dropped that phrase in an Instagram post in March when the Rockets closed to within a game of the Warriors in the Western Conference standings.

After raining in 29 points against the Rockets, Curry watched the end of the game from the bench. He stuck three water bottles on his fingers, imitating The Warriors villain Luther.

Warriors star Klay Thompson was not impressed with Eason’s T-shirt, especially given the young player recently underwent season-ending surgery.

“That’s pretty lame,” Thompson said. “Especially if you’re not even playing. Like it’s one thing if you’re playing, you’re out there competing. But you’re just gonna be trolling from the sideline.

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For a while in late March, it seemed as though the Golden State Warriors were going to fall out of the playoff picture entirely amid the Houston Rockets’ hot streak. But on Thursday night, the Warriors showed that they are still a class above the Rockets, securing a 133-110 victory on the road that extends their lead for the 10th spot in the standings to four games. In such a crucial game, it was important for the Warriors to set the tone, and that’s exactly what Klay Thompson did.

With only three and a half minutes having gone by in the first quarter, the Dubs found themselves on a two on four fastbreak; the smart option was to pull the ball back, but Thompson had immense confidence to pull up from three, over an elite defender and a sworn nemesis in Dillon Brooks, no less. The Warriors sharpshooter then drilled a three right in Brooks’ grill, prompting a staredown to renew the rivalry between them.

It’s not quite clear yet if it was this specific three that had the Warriors fired up for the entire game. But one thing is clear — the veteran Dubs team came to play against an upstart Rockets team that was feeling themselves and talking some smack.

Klay Thompson had one of his most seamless games of the 2023-24 season, putting up 29 points to give the Warriors a healthy cushion in the standings with only six games remaining on the season.