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These 9-year-olds talking trash during a basketball game are so intimidating

James Dator
James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.

This basketball game in New York between two teams of 9-year-olds got more heated than you could possibly imagine.

The player in white begins by mercilessly trash talking his opponent, egged on by the coach on the sideline.

The player in blue doesn’t want anything to do with it. He just wants to let his game speak for itself at first, which he does on the next possession by locking down the trash talker and forcing him to travel.

Naturally this completed the loop and let the defender trash talk back. His game did the talking, the trash was the exclamation point.

There’s even a near-fight at the end. Dang ... these kids are too intense.

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