![]() I am not sure where hope is in Brooklyn but I’m guess it might be over the bridge in Manhattan. The Nets have 0 of their own picks until about the year 3016 (presumably they’re all in Boston, with maybe an odd one in Philadelphia) and their most marketable player right now is Jeremy Lin. What it is: #BrooklynGrit Armchair Alternative: #Linsanity20MaybeĬan’t they? Seriously. You know they can’t wait to start talking about how great their Celtics are this year. Simple, easy to remember and straight to the point, albeit lacking in that typical Boston panache that we’re used to seeing from dock workers and Ben Affleck. What it is: #Celtics Armchair Alternative: #AreWeRelevantYet I’m not saying Dwight Howard isn’t the answer to an offense that values spacing and ball movement, but maybe Dwight Howard isn’t the answer to a system that values spacing and floor movement. Despite crowning the Conference two years ago, the team deteriorated and buried any hopes the fans may have after letting Al Horford go. There is an identity crisis in Atlanta which was fairly evident. What it is: #TrueToAtlanta Armchair Alternative: #StillHaventWonInTheConfFinals So let’s take a look at them, rate them and then introduce more appropriate ones. Okay, but how amazing was that last one?). The point is now moot, as NBA introduced these emojis, in some cases even letting the fans vote (which if history proves anything is a very. Basically lets regular fans, like Toronto hopefuls still consistently defending Terrence Ross because he had a 50 point game once (so did Andre Miller btw, and he’s like 1,500 years old) felt like they had a voice. So really, this was more for the casual fan than anyone already in the know of the grandeur of NBA Twitter (once again, it’s lit). However, any users can also recognize a bar at the top of their Twitter feed next to what appears to be a magnifying glass icon, which serves essentially the same function. The NBA is already pretty talked about, but now the voices were adding up, and more importantly, you can literally filter them by a specific hashtag. Well, statistically, when the fans engaged with NBA Finals on Twitter both in 2015 and in 2016, the introduction of the particular hashtag showed a mathematical increase in conversation volume. You need look no further that NBA Twitter is fine and striving than Adam Joseph’s #NBATwitterDraft2016 (Top 100, one love). NBA Twitter is also pretty lit (as a millennial such as myself would say), full not only of meaningful discussion but a lot of hilarity such as Myles Brown hate for the Warriors. It’s a sport where a human can literally descend as an angel from the heave or an astronaut from space and volleyball spike a basketball with the sheer force of the nation’s collective hate and then almost jump over a human being 5 seconds later on the other end.
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