There was no Twitter, no Facebook, and no blogs when Mike D’Antoni was hired as coach of the Phoenix Suns in 2003. I’m assuming the news was reported in the more traditional way – a front page of the local sports page, a segment on Sportscenter with brief footage of the press conference, and a …
We briefly covered James Harden’s shock trade to the Houston Rockets last week from a social media standpoint. Yet the response that night paled in comparison to the impact he had on the court in his debut week for the Rockets. In his opening game last Wednesday, he scored 37 points and added 12 assists. He …
An intriguing facet to Jeremy Lin’s meteoric rise to starting point guard of the New York Knicks was experts and casual fans attempting to place Lin on an athletic frame of reference. The original (and lazy) comparison with Tim Tebow was largely due to his religious background. Others placed him as the basketball version of …