Trash speech heats up on rift in the making as Warriors top Grizzlies

SAN FRANCISCO - With 3:43 to go in the fourth zone, Klay Thompson outran Dillon Brook

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to knock down a high jumper from 20 feet to put the Golden Nations Warriors up sixteen.

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Brooks staggered back, falling into the path. As Thompson ran to the defense

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he leaned over Brooks, shuffling sideways three times as he thrust his tongue into Brooks' face.

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Some appropriate old-school trash talk," Thompson said. "It's always fun to talk trash

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We've been doing it since we were in college. You usually play it satisfactorily, otherwise you burn out

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. For me, it's usually the former." Heading into the Warriors' 123-109 Christmas Day win over the Memphis Grizzlies

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oth sides had been hesitant to call the connection between them a competition.

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