The World’s Most Famous Athletes Tweeted Highly Offensive Things Before Twitter Went Mainstream
11 years ago

There’s nothing I love more than unfiltered opinions from pro athletes, which are a rarity these days. The PR-shielded world of professional sports gets extremely mundane, so it’s refreshing when athletes give their actual opinions on things, or say things that are just hilariously awful. Basically I miss Joe Namath.

You can imagine my delight when an enterprising Redditor by the name of /u/JewishDoggy (fantastic) posted an album of tweets from NBA players from before Twitter was a social media behemoth, that are SOMEHOW still up. The man took a deep dive, and came up with pure gold.

Behold:

Kevin Durant on his education.

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Kevin Durant on his weird relationship with Westbrook.

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Kevin Durant on his disdain for Lil B. This goes on for many tweets, and led to what many refer to as the “Curse of the Based God,” which some believe is responsible for the Thunder’s inability to win a championship, as well as his injury this season.

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Kevin Durant on his love of cocoa butter.

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Evan Turner’s nuanced thoughts on Nowitzki’s new girlfriend.

Evan Turner

Nick Collison’s judicious spending of his money.

Nick Collison

Paul George going off on his Fresno State teammates.

Paul George

My favorite one-liner by far, Marreese Speights sharing his opinion on the commish.

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Damian Lillard going OFF on LeBron for his performance in the 2011 Playoffs. It reads like a slow descent into madness.

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That’s maybe half of the hilarity encased in this album. Thank God “JewishDoggy” took screen caps, because there’s no way in hell most of these tweets are still live by tomorrow.

CHECK OUT THE FULL ALBUM HERE

      2. FrattyMacDaddyTFM

        The First rule of TFM : You Do Not Reply to your own post.
        The Second rule of TFM : You Do NOT Reply to your own post.

        11 years ago at 1:40 pm

  3. NBA players used the n-word and were too stupid to realize stuff might come back to bite them in the ass? Color me shocked!

    11 years ago at 10:07 pm
  5. allcommission

    Tweets from before twitter went mainstream? Most of these of from 2011. Twitter was pretty goddamn mainstream in 2011

    11 years ago at 11:08 pm
    2. oobadah

      Honestly I hope you keep posting. I like looking at boobs and lapping you so win/win

      11 years ago at 9:28 am
  7. MemberLot

    The first tweet I ever read.
    JR Smith circa 2009 – “bouta smoke a blunt with Carmelo.”
    “He likes swishers but I prefer the optimos.”
    It was a much simpler time back then.

    11 years ago at 10:00 am
  8. Jemarcus Russell

    These are the types of things people should be able to say without the backlash of the idiocracy style court of public opinion screaming and bullying anyone who is not politically correct.

    11 years ago at 10:07 am
  9. MBoj25

    These are “Highly Offensive”? Oh God, I hope TFM isn’t becoming pussy ass BroBible.

    11 years ago at 10:27 am
    1. AnalOnFirstDate

      BroBible is the worst. They should be forced to relinquish their domain name.

      11 years ago at 12:48 pm