Social Media

LeBron James wasn’t trying to rile anyone up with his use of the Arthur meme on Instagram Monday night. According to him, he was just being him, expressing his love for a children’s television show. As he told reporters after the Cleveland Cavaliers’ victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday, per ESPN.com’s Dave McMenamin: LeBron James offered [...]

LeBron James continues to use social media to not-so-covertly communicate his frustrations with the Cleveland Cavaliers. His latest dose of shade comes via an Instagram post from late(ish) Monday night: Mood… A post shared by LeBron James (@kingjames) on Nov 6, 2017 at 7:07pm PST Don’t worry, folks. Yours truly translated this for you: [tweet [...]

Welcome to another edition of “LaVar Ball said what about Lonzo Ball?!?!?” The latest, per Complex Sports, has Pops saying that social media can make his son “bigger” than Kobe Bryant: [tweet https://twitter.com/Complex/status/926959350215667712] So, like, on the LaVar scale of talking points, this take is pretty tame. Lonzo has about a half-million followers on Twitter to [...]

LeBron James is as calculated as they come, which is why what follows is so damn weird. Twitter user @kanyecobain posted a screenshot of a test he ran using doesfollow.com on Monday that not only revealed LeBron unfollowed the Cleveland Cavaliers on Twitter (and Instagram), but that he unfollowed them that very day: [tweet https://twitter.com/kanyecobain/status/712021922138214400] [...]

April 3, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors New Jersey Nets fans are not helping their cause in trying to get premier point guard Deron Williams to re-sign with the New Jersey Nets this summer. Fans have been attacking Deron Williams on social media networking sites like twitter and facebook [...]

March 14, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors We’ve all heard of these popular daily deals or daily coupons sites like ‘GroupOn’ popping up like wildfire. It seems that the Hawks’ Tracy McGrady is trying to use his popularity on social networks to get in on the trend at the ground floor. His web business launched [...]

September 28, 2011 – Dane Carbaugh Long ago, way back before most of you started seeing David Stern and Adam Silver as Statler and Waldorf, the NBA was a league that fully embraced social media as a part of its marketing plan. As clips were amiably put up on YouTube, Twitter accounts were created and [...]

March 19, 2009 – Dr. Anklesnap I’m not sure if The Hoop Doctors readers have noticed, but the social media program “Twitter” is starting to gain some steam. I mean people have gone twitter crazy, right? For those of you who haven’t heard of the program, Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that [...]