At Tuesday night's NBA Eastern Conference Finals game, an Indiana Pacers fan wanted to publicly humiliate Miami Heat supporters in front of a national TV audience.
So what'd he do? Brought out the big guns by insinuating that Heat fans love the universally despised Canadian rock band Nickelback.
The plainly-stated "HEAT FANS [HEART] NICKELBACK" sign was expertly placed behind TNT's crew of analysts, garnering it plenty of air time and lots of Twitter chatter. Here are a few different angles of the piece of troll-tastic fan art, culled from Twitter's vast army of NBA-loving wiseacres:
1. With TNT analyst Kenny Smith:
Awesome sign behind the TNT set: Heat Fans cjzero] twitter.com/burnSTYLEr/sta…— Tyler Burns (@burnSTYLEr) May 29, 2013
2. With NBA legend Dr. J:
BEST SIGN EVER!!! "Heat fans twitter.com/MutrixOfficial…— Mutrix (@MutrixOfficial) May 29, 2013
3. With Dr. J and Shaq:
If @nickelback can't get any love from people in Indiana, they might as well just hang it up. cc @deadspin twitter.com/Tempdiaries/st…— TempX (@Tempdiaries) May 29, 2013