Getting Up Close and Personal

Scenes like this are not a strange thing in the NBA. Since basketball can be very competitive, players occasionally get intense and engage in scuffles. This scuffle between Tristan Thompson and David West reportedly happened during Game 5 of the 2017 NBA Championships. It was like any normal altercation, but it made the rounds on the Internet for a reason.

If the athletes weren’t frowning, you’d think they were having a little romantic moment there. Trust social media users to turn this frame into a bucket of memes and jokes. The players were later handed technical fouls for expressing their feelings so passionately.