Ja Rule's attempt to curse Kings goes about as well as Fyre Festival

Jordan Greer

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Ja Rule never really learned how to just take an "L" and keep moving.

The 42-year-old rapper's performance at the Timberwolves-Bucks game Saturday night didn't go all that well. He appeared as part of "'90s night" at Fiserv Forum, joking that the Bucks brought out a 2000s rapper for some reason. He then tried to kick off his set by shouting "Are we ready?" before realizing the clear answer was "I guess not."

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That gave the Timberwolves an easy alley-oop pass, and they finished off the dunk on Ja Rule with a reference to one of his old Fyre Festival tweets. Ja Rule was a co-founder of the infamous luxury music festival, which failed in spectacular fashion and spawned two documentaries about how the event unfolded and imploded.

And thus, the Ja Rule curse was born. 

Fast forward to Monday's game between the Timberwolves and Kings. Ja Rule's curse got off to a rough start with Minnesota capturing a 112-105 victory. Sacramento's social media team capitalized on the opportunity to blame Ja Rule for the loss.

Ja Rule tried to clap back, but he must have forgotten which team he was trying to curse because he told the Kings that Karl-Anthony Towns would eventually leave the franchise in free agency. Yeah... Towns doesn't play for the Kings.

Here comes the lob to the rim, and the slam!

Oh, Kings point guard De'Aaron Fox just happened to be driving by...

After this Twitter debacle, Ja Rule clarified that both the Kings and Timberwolves are now cursed. Good to know.

Ja, buddy, just head to the bench for a little bit. Take a seat. This isn't the game for you.

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Jordan Greer has been with The Sporting News since 2015. He previously worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He is a graduate of Westminster College and Syracuse University.