- Hasheem justs wants to say nighty-nighty to his peepo.
The NBA is, by far, the most Twitter-friendly sports league, full of young, charismatic, funny, and sometimes seemingly slightly crazy tech-savvy athletes. Minnesota’s Kevin Love has become almost as known for his wry, news-breaking tweets as for his on-court play. Shaquille O’Neal has brought his larger-than-life personality fully into cyberspace via the format.
With the Grizzlies, Rudy Gay is a reliable Twitter communicator, but rookie Hasheem Thabeet became the team’s most entertaining Twitter user almost immediately after being drafted, providing his followers with excellent entertainment in the form of pronouncements on the Memphis weather, shout-outs to his native Tanzania, and loopy “Nighty nighty!” signoffs.
But is Thabeet’s online act wearing thin? And does it portend bad things ahead via his on-court performance? A Beyond the Arc reader emailed me a funny and persuasive rant on this subject that I’m going to publish here with his permission:
