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03rd Jun 2016

Watch Shaq, Steph Curry and Magic Johnson read Mean Tweets in latest NBA edition

Carl Kinsella

Whoever dreamt up the concept of celebrities reading mean tweets in front of a camera is a bona fide genius.

The latest instalment of Jimmy Kimmel’s Mean Tweets is an all-NBA edition to help everyone get in the mood for this month’s Playoffs – the first of which was won last night by Steph Curry’s Golden State Warriors.

This video features basketball’s superstars past and present – such as Steph Curry, Shaquille O’Neal and Magic Johnson – taking some serious online abuse on the chin and teaching us all a thing or two about not taking the trolls too seriously.

Though, of course, it’s a little bit easier to laugh at yourself when you’re a gazillionaire athlete. Or at least we’d hope it is…

Clip via Jimmy Kimmel Live.

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