The NBA All-Star Weekend generated a lot of opinions and there was certainly no shortage of stuff going on as the league tried out a bunch of different events. At one point a fan named Jaren came out onto the Chase Center court and beat Damian Lillard in a shooting contest, a feat that earned him a six-figure payday from Mr. Beast.
That triumphant moment created one of the stranger scenes a sports fan could ever hope to see as NBA superstars and mascots alike found themselves in front of a giant pile of money and general chaos breaking out.
It was the type of thing where "LMAO" is the only appropriate response.
Lmao pic.twitter.com/2rKWcQeQW5
— Rak (@vvsrak) February 18, 2025
There's just so much going in there. Kyrie Irving slyly walking away with a fistful of bills before Kevin Durant intervenes to throw it back into the mix like he was resetting the Shoe Carnival coupon machine. Mascots realizing that their real identities were obscured and the perfect crime was materialize should they want to throw it all away. A throng of camera people treating this like the biggest story on the planet, jostling for a spot.
They say the perfect clip doesn't exist. They are wrong.
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This article was originally published on www.si.com as Mascots, NBA Superstars Involved in Bizarre Mr. Beast Cash Grab.
