The NBA hot stove season, through 11 hair-pulling, thumb-twiddling days, has become a prolonged waiting game — mostly for LeBron James’ Decision, also for Carmelo Anthony’s decision.
And with the waiting comes the habitual — almost compulsive — refreshing of Twitter, for that next scrap of news or non-news.
#BeforeLeBronDecides is paramount among the hashtags to emerge from all this NBA Twitter foreplay. You get the idea: Basketball’s marquee free agent is taking soooo long to make up his mind (Miami or Cleveland? Cleveland or Miami?) that any far-fetched event could happen in the meantime.
Here’s a sample of the best offerings: