Rockets’ Jalen Green Has Hilarious Response When Asked About Twitter Culture

Born in 2002, the second-year player presumably has little memory of basketball before the website.
Rockets’ Jalen Green Has Hilarious Response When Asked About Twitter Culture
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Few sports leagues have a symbiotic relationship with Twitter quite like the NBA. The platform grew up as the league boomed in popularity in the 2010s, with superstars such as Lakers forward LeBron James and Suns forward Kevin Durant embracing it from the get-go.

The league's current generation of young players, in fact, now has little to no memory of basketball before the advent of Twitter. This has given players such as Rockets guard Jalen Green a unique perspective on the site's impact, which he discussed with Clippers forward Paul George in a podcast snippet posted Sunday afternoon.

"I got a couple burners," Green said. "Going on Twitter ... they'll be cool with you, praise you and all that, or if you have a bad game ... he's going to China."

The Chinese Basketball Association's reputation as a destination for aged former NBA players has become something of a running joke on Twitter in recent years, with the Shanghai Sharks and Guangdong Tigers mentioned in jest as potential destinations for past-their-prime talents.

Green, for his part, seems a long way from playing overseas after averaging 22.1 points per game in his sophomore season.


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Patrick Andres
PATRICK ANDRES

Patrick Andres is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. He joined SI in December 2022, having worked for The Blade, Athlon Sports, Fear the Sword and Diamond Digest. Andres has covered everything from zero-attendance Big Ten basketball to a seven-overtime college football game. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism with a double major in history .