The claws are out ahead of this weekend's Australian National Basketball League game between the Breakers and Wildcats with the Kiwi club taking aim at former player Corey Webster in a controversial billboard.
The Breakers - riding high on a competition-leading record of 11-3 thanks in part to a five-game win streak - advertised this weekend's clash with Webster's Wildcats with a billboard which they shared to social media.
The ad shows a picture of Webster's face then an equals sign followed by a cat emoji; a nod to him being a Wildcat but also an emoji used for another, more taunting, meaning.
"He looks furrrrmiliar," the Breakers said on social media.
"What could this possibly mean?"
Webster, a three-time NBL champion with the Breakers who played 236 games across 11 seasons for them, departed the club last August amid a rough few years of results despite having two years left on his contract.
The departure was a "mutual" agreement which after brief stints with Al Ittihad in Egypt and the Franklin Bulls in New Zealand, led to him joining Perth this year as a Wildcat.
Sure enough, the play-on-words taunt worked with Webster quickly responding this afternoon.
"Come say it to my face," he responded.
"See who the real [cat emoji]."
Aside from Webster, the advertising received mixed messages from fans with one calling it "gold" while another said "this ain't it".
Tomorrow's game tips off at 7.30pm at Spark Arena.
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