Watch Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant, and DeMarcus Cousins Get Animated Playing Taboo

The NBA superstars prove that Taboo makes anyone go nuts when playing this game.

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Playing Taboo can be as nail-biting as playing the final minute of a basketball game between two evenly matched teams. Well, maybe not to the degree of this past season's Game 7 of the NBA Finals. But in both cases, the clock is the enemy. Plus, both games make everyone on the team jump out of their chairs screaming.

This is aptly demonstrated by NBA All-Stars and USA Olympic men's basketball teammates Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant, and DeMarcus Cousins. In a video recorded by GQ of the Team USA members playing Taboo against a group of magazine staffers going by "Team GQ," you can see how players on both teams are just like us when we indulge (and occasionally cheat) in the word-guessing game.

Check out how the English language momentarily confuses the teams as they go round-for-round describing words without using their most obvious associations. The players' frontal lobes get tickled as they run through countless synonyms to arrive at the correct answer. Even "The Notorious B.I.G." pops up as a clue along the way.

In the end, Team USA edges Team GQ for the win 7-6. Now that's a true win at the buzzer.

 

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