--- title: Jay Z Stands Up to Chris Paul for Running Same Play 4 Times description: After the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Brooklyn Nets 105-95 on Monday night, Jay Z was a little displeased. canonical: https://time.com/4243472/jay-z-chris-paul-clippers-beat-nets-same-play/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-01T21:17:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:38.468Z og:title: Jay Z Stands Up to Chris Paul for Beating the Nets by Running the Same Play 4 Times og:description: "What's that about?" og:url: https://time.com/4243472/jay-z-chris-paul-clippers-beat-nets-same-play/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jay Z Stands Up to Chris Paul for Beating the Nets by Running the Same Play 4 Times twitter:description: "What's that about?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Jay Z Stand Up to Chris Paul for Beating the Nets  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 1, 2016 9:17 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 1, 2016 9:17 PM UTC After the [Los Angeles Clippers](http://time.com/4242910/steve-ballmer-trampoline-dunk/) beat the Brooklyn Nets 105-95 on Monday night, [Jay Z](http://time.com/4081075/jimmy-kimmel-jay-z-rap/), a former minority owner of the Nets, was a little displeased. The Clippers [sealed the deal](http://time.com/4209732/drake-nba-hall-of-famer-reggie-miller-ping-pong-challenge/) late in the fourth quarter when the Brooklyn defense was unable to defend against [Chris Paul and DeAndre Jordan repeatedly running the same pick-and-roll play](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJJqLGr-z18). So when Jay, who had been sitting courtside, was approached by CP3 after the game, he decided to voice his frustrations with [his friend](http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/brooklyn-nets/post/%5F/id/6780/chris-paul-jay-z-is-like-a-big-brother). “You ran that same play four times in a row, man,” the Roc Nation founder said. “What’s that about?” > [](https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/704555323550474240) **Read More:** [Here’s a Montage of Steph Curry’s Most Impressive 3-Pointers of the Season](http://time.com/4242987/steps-curry-best-three-pointers/) Paul’s response to the question is still unknown, but since the play earned the Clippers a victory, we’re willing to bet _that’s_ what it was about. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4243472/jay-z-chris-paul-clippers-beat-nets-same-play/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4243472/jay-z-chris-paul-clippers-beat-nets-same-play/"},"headline":"Watch Jay Z Stand Up to Chris Paul for Beating the Nets","datePublished":"2016-03-01T21:17:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:38.468Z","description":"\"What's that about?\"","url":"https://time.com/4243472/jay-z-chris-paul-clippers-beat-nets-same-play/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Basketball","Sports topic","Athletes","Jay-z","NBA","Los Angeles Clippers"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4243472/jay-z-chris-paul-clippers-beat-nets-same-play/","name":"Watch Jay Z Stand Up to Chris Paul for Beating the Nets"}}]}] ```