If you grew up in the 90s you likely remember Jurassic Park, which brought us the most intimidating, life-like dinosaurs we’d ever seen at the time.
You may also remember Barney the Dinosaur — the 6-foot tall, purple and green tyrannosaurus rex who evokes the opposite of fear in anyone that sees him.
On Thursday night, the Milwaukee Bucks completely disrespected the Toronto Raptors by playing the Barney & Friends theme song during the Raptors’ player introductions:
Milwaukee is playing the Barney theme music during the Raptors' player introductions pic.twitter.com/dMTz1Npj5p
— Eric Fawcett (@Efawcett7) April 21, 2017
And on Saturday for Game 4, the Bucks did it again, this time with the “I Love You” song:
The Raptors will need to be completely focused if they want to stave off the Bucks and prevent a first-round upset, but I have a hard time believing the Barney theme song helped the Raptors get hyped during their introductions.
The Bucks stole Game 1 on the Raptors’ home court, and are tied 1-1 in their first round series. The Raptors are currently down 39-15 midway through the second quarter, so this was a genius tactic by Milwaukee to make an otherwise intimidating opponent look rather, well, soft and cuddly.