Most importantly, Kevin Love got snubbed but picked up Tweet of the Night as a consolation prize. Second-most importantly, Lang Whitaker continued his meteoric rise into the mainstream media by co-hosting the awards with Shaquille O’Neal and Rick Fox. Before there was Twitter, and before there were hashtags or #trendsetter shout-outs, Lang was a trendsetter himself. For example, before the retro jersey fad came and went, Lang once covered a Mavericks-Knicks game at
Knicks J.R. Smith fined for booty tweet
NEW YORK — New York Knicks guard J.R. Smith has been fined $25,000 for posting inappropriate pictures on his Twitter account, it was announced today by Stu Jackson, the NBA vice president of basketball operations. On Thursday night when the Knicks were in Milwaukee, Smith tweeted the photo shown at the, ahem, bottom of this post. The thong-covered posterior belongs to Tahiry Jose. Deadspin said she is a self-described “bartender-turned-magazine cover model” who has a Facebook fan page that refers to her as “The aGirl with the biggest ass