Thursday Bolts – 9.8.11
Roger Mason tweeted yesterday “Looking like a season” and it set off a firestorm. He then claimed he was hacked (yeah right). SLC Dunk did an awesome job of breaking it down: “If you reply to 40404, it goes live as a public tweet. If you prepend your text with the letter “d” and then the username of the person who DMed you, you will reply as a DM. Since his tweet doesn’t have a “d” in front (a common mistake), and he doesn’t mention any particular username, it’s likely that he just saw the DM message and replied as he would a regular text message. I’ve made this mistake a few times, tweeting something publicly that was either supposed to be a DM or to another phone number. It happens. That’s likely the case here.”
The Lost Ogle is looking for you to vote on the Thunder’s worst player: “Thunder GM Sam Presti is generally considered a genius in the world of NBA front office management. Unfortunately, that mental acuity has not made him immune to the sport’s cancer. Everyone believes that the simple genetic trait of being seven feet tall automatically makes a person a future hall of famer. Presti actually traded up to get Mullens who is a seven footer who wants to play on the perimeter despite an inability to shoot. Now, Mullens has cashed two seasons worth of NBA paychecks and very little time wearing an NBA uniform. That is not because he was hurt, he just sucked so much that he was sent to the D-League or on the inactive list. If Mullens had measured at 6’11″ at the combine, he would be unemployed right now.”
KD had a nice little diddy in Sports Illustrated this week.
Ken Berger of CBSSports.com on yesterday’s session: Unless, of course, you’re sending a direct message or text intended for a private audience to thousands of followers publicly on Twitter. This appears to have been what happened to Roger Mason of the Knicks, a member of the players’ executive committee. Mason, who did not attend the bargaining session Wednesday, tweeted shortly thereafter, “Looking like a season. how u.” After getting bombarded with inquiries about the tweet, Mason promptly deleted it and claimed his account had been hacked. Looking back a month from now, Mason either will go down as the latest public figure victimized by evil, indiscriminate Twitter hackers, or the one who broke the story that the lockout was all but over. How u? We’ll see.”
Kobe is on Twitter now and two of the people he follows is KD and James Harden. Or he was.
Sherwood Strauss responds with more on Durant: “My ideal G.O.A.T/B.I.W can thrive in any situation. He can get his own and create for others. Durant’s lack of passing is a bug and not a feature. To be the best, he must either hurdle over it with (somehow) even better shooting, or he must round out those rough edges and become a morbidly obese iguana for the ages. In the meantime, we basketball bloggers will focus on our specialty: Having impassioned debates over the marginal differences between players who don’t know of our existence.”
