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Steph Curry's Warriors were 'historically disrespectful,' says former Cavalier Richard Jefferson

Richard Jefferson, the former NBA player turned ESPN hot-take-spewing firehose, has a new claim: The title-winning Golden State Warriors teams led by Stephen Curry were "historically disrespectful."

Jefferson was a member of the 2016-2017 Cleveland Cavaliers team that lost to the Warriors in the 2017 NBA Finals and was asked during a Monday episode of "The Jump" to react to Curry's recent remark that teams still want to "beat [the Warriors] bad" out of lingering resentment.

"One thing that we gloss over because the game has changed: Remember all of the turning around and high-fiving each other because Steph is that good of a shooter?