If you’re like me and have just been scrolling through Twitter aimlessly over the last few days while we’re all social distancing because of the coronavirus, you’ve probably seen a number of random former NBA players on Twitter trending.
Today? It’s Steve Nash and Yao Ming. Yesterday, it was Roy Hibbert and Andre Miller. Tomorrow? Who knows. There’s no rhyme or reason to any of this. It’s just random retired dudes who played in the league ranging from All-Stars to role players.
If you click on Twitter’s trends menu, you’ll see all of the names right there. It’s really odd. When I saw this this morning, I thought it was 2011 or something.
I never thought I’d see the day that Steve Nash was trending with James Harden or Yao Ming. But here we are.
Why is this happening? Literally because people are bored out of their minds So bored, that they’d be willing to subject themselves to Roy Hibbert highlights on a Thursday afternoon with tweets like this.
Or Andre Miller highlights that, somehow, make him look like an All-Star. Now, to be fair, it was his birthday. But still!
With no NBA basketball being played right now, people are just running out of things to do while missing their favorite sport. So they’re talking about their favorite role players.
Some people think we’re going too far with things. That we might miss basketball a little too much.
I think they might be right. NBA Twitter is starting to get a little stir crazy. I mean, we’ve gotten to the point where we’re asking if Miller was properly rated.
We’re also asking who can complete alley-oop passes to who. Is this that bad? No. Do I want it gone because I got Hassan Whiteside throwing alley-oop passes to Isaiah Thomas? Maybe.
Hopefully, the game comes back soon and we can all regain our sanity. Because right now, with the pace we’re on, it’s only a matter of time before we see a “Smush Parker wasn’t that bad” tweet with flame emojis next to it.
