J.R. Smith and Twitter

As some of you are aware, J.R. Smith cancelled his Twitter account after many speculated that because he changed his “c’s” to “k’s,” he was somehow related to the Bloods. I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty disappointed that it resorted to this. One of the great things about the social networking and Twitter is that it gets us closer to people such as our favorite athletes or celebrities. My favorite thing about Twitter was seeing what the Denver athletes are up to. It gives us a closer sense of who they are. It was cool to see what J.R. was up to when he wasn’t draining 3’s at Pepsi Center.


Now, because of idiot reports at the local newspaper and idiot readers who misuse their right to leave comments on articles forced J.R. to just shut his account down. It makes me pretty angry that J.R. felt the need or had pressure to shut his account down because of some idiot people who are obviously wound way to tight. J.R. is a professional athlete and even though J.R. never went to College and has shown immaturity with other things such as his 100 page driving record. J.R. is not stupid. No person with half a brain would affiliate themselves with such a gang and make it public by simply changing c’s to k’s as he tweets his thoughts. One of the biggest things that makes my blood boil was people such as sports writers and bloggers saying he throws up gang signs after hitting 3’s! Are you kidding me? Have you watched J.R. play at all during his career?!? Any time he hits a 3 or a big 3, he throws up three fingers on each hand signifying he’s hot and making it rain from the outside. Is it because he’s got a body full of tat’s? Is it because he’s black? Either way, it’s unfair to J.R. and it’s unfair to the thousands of followers that enjoyed and wanted to get a more personal connection with a local professional athlete. J.R, just ignore the haters, let people know you’re not part of any gangs and come back to Twitter.