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What’s sad is this was probably tweeted by some young kid who is just trying to do their job, but those last six words are the problem. When entry level social media coordinators are instructed to highlight certain players, they have some level of discretion on the context and captions. The default mindset is always to compliment, so the author is not responsible for the brand criticizing its own assets/gets in trouble with their boss. But excessive caution leads to obvious pandering, which can turn an audience against the subject as quickly as slander. The potential of something like this tweet below happening — a play that happens hundreds of times per game — and is not even close to qualifying as one of Wemby’s “nevermind”s. Now you are insulting your customers’ intelligence. The NBA has an obligation to document its current events and package them into an easily-consumable product. It is the entertainment business after-all. However, the continuous examples of something like this happening from their main channels suggests a reassessment of their internal storytelling methods may be necessary. This type of content does more damage to their brand than I think they realize.

Jeremy Lin with an awesome breakdown on how Luka is so good in isolation:

JAPANESE GIRL RELEASED IN AN AMERICAN SUPERMARKET. 💥🛒 RESULT: ABSOLUTELY UNSTOPPABLE. 😎🍪🍭🍫

BREAKING: DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email has been hacked.

If I send you this, it means I ain’t apologizing for shit

anyone else like mangos with shrimp paste

This one is definitely up there

How in gods name is ishowspeed step for step with Devonta Smith

The White House’s photographer’s gotta be doing it on purpose

Niedersachsenderby✅

how tf do girls take backshots? them mfs hurt like hell😩

Taylor Frankie Paul’s upcoming season of ‘The Bachelorette’ has been officially cancelled.

Ordered an Italian sub and figured it’d have all the goods (dressing, onions, lettuce, tomato). Came with none. Am I insane or is this insane?

Rapper LaRussell has now deactivated all of his social media accounts after facing more backlash for his reaction to backlash about his Heaven Sent song