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Recording artist Rihanna heckled Kevin Durant at the 2017 NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers at Oracle Arena June 1, 2017. Getty Images

“Work” singer Rihanna had herself a good time Game 1 of the NBA Finals in Oakland, California, on Thursday. The Golden Gate Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 113-91 victory. While everyone tuned in to watch basketball, RiRi arguably had more game than the Cavs, stealing the show by dabbing, bowing to Cavs player LeBron James and heckling Warriors star Kevin Durant.

The Fenty fashion designer was heard heckling Durant when he made a free throw during the game. She apparently yelled, “Brick,” in attempt to stop the player from making his shot. He ultimately did, and seemingly gave her the evil eye from the court when he did so.

After the game, Durant said he didn’t remember responding to Rihanna’s taunt. “I’m cool,” he told reporters. “Have fun with that.”

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It’s no secret that Rihanna is a fan of King James. She got up to bow to the player, walking along the court to take a courtesy. When she was reportedly told to sit down by a fan in the stands, she dabbed.

According to Urban Dictionary, dabbing is a “dance” when a person essentially head-butts his or her elbow to look cool. When dabbing has nothing to do with dancing, it’s also a reference to vaporizing concentrated marijuana.

“Performing the dance move characterized by raising an elbow and tucking one's head toward that elbow while raising and extending the opposite arm behind,” the Urban Dictionary writes about dabbing. “This dance move is often seen while dabbing (1) since the dabber immediately coughs into his inner arm and wipes his or her tears away while passing a bong.”

Even though the Cavs lost the first game, Rihanna stood behind her team. When naysayers heckled her about James, she said, “It doesn't matter b----, the King was still the King.”

 

"It doesn't matter b***h, the King was still the King." - Rihanna (via TonyZ19/Twitter)

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For the event she wore and oversized black jacket, seemingly covering up her body. The move came after the singer was the target of fat-shaming after she supposedly gained weight.

Blogger Chris “Spags” Spagnuolo for a scathing article for the website Barstool Sports titled, “Is Rihanna Going to Make Being Fat the Hot New Trend?” Wednesday. In the story, he talked about her “high key thickness.”

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The story was ultimately removed, and a quasi-apology was issued by Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports. “We have an extremely minor controversy going on with this fat shaming blog that Spags wrote. Lots of feminists not happy about it,” Portnoy wrote. “I don’t think the blog was as bad as many are making it out to be, but I’ll tell you this. It wasn’t that funny either and I could have told you with absolute certainty that feminists would hate it and use it as an example of ‘there goes Barstool being Barstool again.’”

Rihanna didn’t respond to the fat-shaming article. Instead, she promoted her new makeup line, Fenty Beauty, on Twitter. “Head over to FENTYBEAUTY.com and sign up to join da family! I can't f----in wait for fall!!!” she tweeted Wednesday.

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