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Klay Thompson Lookalike refers to jokes made about YouTuber BigDawsTV attending the October 17th, 2017 season-opening game of the 2017-2018 NBA season between the Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets dressed as Warriors star player Klay Thompson.

Origin

On October 17th, 2017, YouTuber BigDawsTV attended the Golden State Warriors' opening game against the Houston Rockets dressed as Warriors star player Klay Thompson. Quickly, Twitter users noticed and a shot of BigDawsTV holding a camera went viral on the website (shown below).

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Throughout the game, Twitter users joked about the image as though BigDawsTV were a discount version of the real Klay Thompson. For example, @FatKidDeals^[1] tweeted "When your $30 Yeezys from Amazon come in" with the image, gaining over 2,000 retweets and 2,600 likes (shown below, left). User @tim_cato^[2] used the image to compare the quality of play in the NBA's Western Conference vs. its Eastern Conference, gaining over 9,700 retweets and 19,000 retweets (shown below, right).

The Warriors Twitter account noticed BigDawsTV and tweeted a GIF of him mugging for the camera (shown below).

Jokes about the impersonation were covered by USA Today,^[3] SI.com,^[4] and ESPN.com,^[5] as well as sports-centric blogs.

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