It started with relative simplicity from Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert when it came to the free-agency courtship of his once-and-possibly-again teammate Gordon Hayward, the free-agent forward who now has a decision to make.
So, as NBA players do, Gobert took to Twitter.
As in: The Miami Heat are garbage, the Boston Celtics something even more foul, and the Jazz could be championship bound with a Hayward return.
Hayward is considering those three teams, having flown to Boston for an interview after a Saturday meeting at AmericanAirlines Arena with the Heat.
That led to Heat center Hassan Whiteside, who was among Heat players to meet Saturday with Hayward, to later offer his own emoji counter on Twitter.
As in: Since the turn of the century, the Celtics have won one championship, the Heat three and the Jazz, well they've been limited to cartoonish success.
Before that, Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas offered his own counter, making note that those are the only three championships in the Heat's history, compared to the Celtics' 17 and the Jazz's great big zero.
Of course, when it comes to Whiteside, there always is the fallback of the Snapchat game.
