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Finally, at 2:52 p.m. PDT on Wednesday afternoon, Jackson sent out his first tweet. It is safe to say that it was not as insightful as anyone had hoped: Yahoo! Sports

Phil Jackson, Coaching, Twitter 

Dave McMenamin: Heard that PJax's first tweet was an intentional blunder. There is a video to follow with him having trouble typing with rings on Twitter @mcten

Phil Jackson, Coaching, Twitter 

There it is, a message so garbled that Twitter believes it was written in the Lithuanian language. It's a bold choice to promote a new book in this way, but no one ever said Jackson's methods were conventional. Yahoo! Sports

Phil Jackson, Coaching, Twitter 

Phil Jackson has joined Twitter. He hasn’t tweeted yet, but I’m sure once he does, the world will change. So far he has procured the handle @PhilJackson11 and set a picture of his 11 championship rings as his avatar. I can’t wait to see what his first tweet is! The Big Lead

Phil Jackson, Coaching, Twitter 

Royce White: At 6,000 tweets, I think I'm going be done tweeting personally... #BeWell Twitter @Highway_30

Houston Rockets, Twitter, Royce White 

Bill Simmons is serving a three-day Twitter suspension after sending tweets critical of ESPN's "First Take." Simmons blasted the ESPN program for the Richard Sherman vs. Skip Bayless feud. He told his 2 million followers to stop watching the show and called the segment "awful" and "embarrassing." ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys on Thursday said the network declined to comment. This much is clear, however: ESPN is sending the message that nobody is exempt from its internal Twitter policies, which read: "At all times, exercise discretion, thoughtfulness and respect for colleagues, business associates and fans." Detroit Free Press

Media, Twitter, Bill Simmons, Skip Bayless 

White cites Twitter and other social media "as the best census we could have," and notes that many people use social media to attack people they don't know, including him. "These are people who are among us," he said. "I've had people tweet me heinous stuff, and then I see on their profile that they're a 'counselor.' These are people who run our schools and work with kids. We want to focus on the guy who might walk into this hotel lobby and shoot everybody, instead of the millions of young black men who will kill each other in our communities." Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Houston Rockets, Twitter, Royce White 

SLAM: Are you ever going to get on Twitter? You would be great on Twitter. CB: No, I’m never gonna do the Twitter. I don’t feel the need to voice my opinion on everything and argue with these idiots, so I’m never gonna do that. SLAM: So that’s why? You don’t want to get into it with followers? CB: Sure, I don’t need that. One thing you have to learn when you’re in the limelight, no matter what you say, half the people like it and half the people gonna dislike it. So I choose not to get involved in that. SLAM

Twitter, Charles Barkley 

Bryant, who has nearly 1.3 million Twitter followers, reprimanded a fan who tweeted "You're gay" to another fan. In response to the insult that was posted Sunday on his own Twitter feed, Bryant tweeted: "Just letting you know@PacSmoove @pookeo9 that using "your gay" as a way to put someone down ain't ok! #notcool delete that out ur vocab." Bryant was fined $100,000 in April for using a gay slur in a nationally televised game, an incident that NBA commissioner David Stern called "offensive and inexcusable." ESPN.com

Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant, Twitter 

Smith, though, is different. He’s not vanilla or politically correct. Instead of quoting Nietzsche, Smith is more likely to steal from Sir Mix-A-Lot. “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” Yes, Smith has made it abundantly clear on Twitter that this gentlemen prefers curves. Last month, Smith even used Twitter to fuel the budding Knicks-Nets rivalry after Brooklyn forward Kris Humphries, following the Martin Luther King Day win over the Knicks, tweeted: “Big game tonight! The Garden got really quiet on the way out! #Brooklyn” Smith, frustrated with his performance, tweeted back to Humphries “Wasnt quiet when Kanye tore it down last month!” The reference was to rapper Kanye West, the current boyfriend of Kim Kardashian, who famously filed for divorce from Humphries after 72 days. “People tell me all the time to watch what I say on Twitter but I’m still going to do what I want to do,” Smith says. “I’m still going to be me. It’s not a matter of them telling me . . . it’s a matter of whether I’m going to listen.” New York Daily News

New York Knicks, Twitter, JR Smith 

Eyes wide open is how Smith lives his life. There is a reason why he’s tweeting at all hours of the day: He doesn’t sleep, like another Knick who wore No. 8: Latrell Sprewell. “Latrell didn’t sleep much but he would sleep,” says Marcus Camby, Sprewell’s former teammate in New York and Smith’s teammate in Denver and New York. “J.R. never sleeps.” Said Smith: “I don’t know what it is, I’ve never been a big sleeper. I feel like I’m missing something when I’m sleeping. It’s one of my good qualities, I guess.” New York Daily News

New York Knicks, Twitter, JR Smith, Latrell Sprewell 

Warriors made Saturday night "Social Media Night," becoming the first team to have its players wear shirts emblazoned with their Twitter handles during warm-ups. It's a reflection of just how much confidence the front office has in the team's maturity and intelligence. You can rest assured the Warriors never would have dreamed of advertising easy access to, or interaction with, some of their other squads in recent years. Sulia

Golden State Warriors, Twitter 

Millsap laughed after @MoWilliams claimed the Jazz power forward would soon be the team's leading tweeter. "I still don't know how it works," Millsap said. "I've got to figure it out. I can't be the king if I don’t know." There are two things about Twitter that the Jazz do know. Williams shared Fact 1 about Millsap: "No, no, no, no, no. He is not going to the School of @Enes_Kanter Twitter. No way." Deseret News

Utah Jazz, Twitter, Paul Millsap 

Millsap laughed when asked if he was going to get Big Al to do Twitter. "Some people just ain't going to do it," Millsap said. "He's one of them guys." One locker over, Jefferson quickly interrupted the conversation to back that up. "I can' t spell that good," he said, laughing. Deseret News

Utah Jazz, Twitter, Paul Millsap 

Jody Genessy: Just verified from the man himself that @PaulMillsap_24 is indeed Paul Millsap. Twitter @DJJazzyJody

Utah Jazz, Twitter, Paul Millsap 

Royce White: "As much as we want to think that these are just people behind computer screens, those people are living next door to you," he says. "They are people behind computer screens in schools. In hospitals. Working in Washington, D.C. These are real people. How many times does this stuff have to happen before we admit something really disturbing is going on here? I think one person tweeting 'Fuck you, go kill yourself' is disturbing. But when you get into the hundreds of those tweets? The thousands of those tweets? I see a lot of people out there with really volatile mental disorders that are not getting help. Because I go to their own Twitter pages, and I can see they're not just sending those messages to me. They're sending them to a bunch of people. I mean, if you tweet at me five times in seven minutes because I'm not playing for a team you have no real connection to? That is not good. That suggests mental illness. And even if you say, 'But I love this team to death,' it means you've put too much investment into entertainment. It's probably not good for you." Grantland

Houston Rockets, Twitter, Royce White 

Andrew Bogut: Yes, @andrewbogut is a legit account. #welcomeback Twitter @AB_Basketball

Golden State Warriors, Twitter, Andrew Bogut 

A year ago, I met with Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant to discuss his 81-point game against the Toronto Raptors on Jan. 22, 2006. It was for a story on the 50th anniversary of Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game. Bryant's 81 is the closet anyone has come to matching or surpassing Chamberlain's 100. One of the questions I asked Bryant: "Have you ever watched the replay of that 81-point game?" He said no. "There's nothing I could have learned from that game," Bryant told me. "It was just pure fluke, a freak of nature-type thing." USA Today Sports

Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant, Twitter 

Bryant had that seven-year itch to finally watch it, and Bryant live Tweeted while watching. "I can't believe I've never watched this game till now," Bryant Tweeted. And: "After my first bucket I realized their rotations weren't sharp or early." And: "This game was the 1st and only game my grandma has seen me play as a pro, On my late grandfather's bday no less#countonfamily" USA Today Sports

Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant, Twitter 

Bryant responded to a fan who wanted to know what Bryant did with the shoes he wore in that game. "@4yearsenior I sent them to the hall of fame," Bryant replied on Twitter and @nikebasketball Tweeted, "Here is the proof @kobebryant @4yearsenior #countonkobe" with a photo of the shoes in the Hall of Fame. When I talked to Bryant, I wanted to know why he didn't watch it, just to see if he had a chance at 100 points. ""If I did watch it, it would only (upset me) if I saw I really could have had 100," Bryant said. USA Today Sports

Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant, Twitter, Hall of Fame