Cavaliers DJ Trash Talks Drake on Instagram After Cleveland’s Game 5 Win Over Raptors

Cavaliers’ DJ Steph Floss responded to Drake on Instagram following Cleveland’s Game 5 win against the Raptors.

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After the Raptors beat the Cavaliers in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Saturday night, Drake threw some shade at LeBron James and Cleveland’s team DJ Steph Floss when he posted this on Instagram:

Then, after the Raptors beat the Cavaliers in Game 4 of the ECF on Monday night, Drake added more fuel to the fire by throwing more shade at LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, and the Cavs on Instagram:

So after the Cavaliers beat the Raptors 116-78 in Game 5 of the ECF on Wednesday night, you just knew someone with the Cavs was going to have something to say, right? LeBron didn’t respond directly to Drake because he still has Zero Dark Thirty activated, which prevents him from using social media during the NBA Playoffs. But DJ Steph Floss was more than happy to speak for LeBron and the Cavs by sending a series of shots back in Drake’s direction. He started with this:

Then, he posted this:

And he finished with this:

But it seems as though Drake kept his sense of humor intact despite the Raptors’ blowout loss. After the game ended, he also put up a post on Instagram and told people to leave their hate for him in "CAPS" in the comments section of the post:

If you check the comments on that post, people were more than happy to follow Drake's directions and leave all kinds of crazy messages in caps.

Game 6 of the Cavaliers/Raptors series is scheduled for Friday night in Toronto. Do you think it will end with Drake talking more trash on IG?

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