Apparently the NBA doesn’t recognize local comedian Dave Chappelle

Either the person who runs the official NBA Twitter account doesn’t know who Dave Chappelle is, or the joke’s on us!

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On Saturday night, May 21, the NBA tweeted out this gif of Amy Schumer and “a fan.”

A reddit user screenshot the tweet and posted it to the /facepalm subreddit, where people got worked into a frenzy.

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Fans of Chappelle consider this quite the snub. One reddit user even wrote, "To know who Amy Schumer is, and not Dave Chapelle (sic) is a travesty."

Others thought that the NBA played the ultimate prank on its internet trolls.

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What do you think?

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