Twitter changed forever yesterday after the legacy verified blue check marks were finally purged from the site. This also means many NBA players have ended up without a verification check next to their accounts now. But not all of them.
LeBron James had his checkmark personally taken care of by Elon Musk, but many other players still have their verified checkmark on Twitter. Here is a list of all of them.
LeBron James: 52.7M Followers
Klay Thompson: 1.8M Followers
Karl-Anthony Towns: 729.8K Followers
Kristaps Porzingis: 366.5K Followers
Frank Kaminsky: 204.8K Followers
R.J. Hampton: 72.4K Followers
Brandon Clarke: 41K Followers
(data courtesy of HoopsHype.com)
Players like Kevin Durant and Damian Lillard are among the most active NBA players on Twitter and are currently unverified. It’s unlikely that most of these players will subscribe to Twitter Blue to get their checkmarks back. After all, LeBron openly said he wouldn’t, and he had the CEO of the company personally take the cost of keeping him verified.
Impersonators On The Rise?
Most fans know that they can open the account of a possible impersonator and check whether it’s the real player or not. Despite that being easy, we know that people on Twitter often forget to do this. There have been plenty of fake news reports that have gone viral from fake Adrian Wojnarowski or Shams Charania accounts before.
A random troll account is unlikely to have the millions of followers that NBA players have, so fans may need to be more diligent in ensuring they don’t fall for fake tweets. Given the frequency with which some of these players tweet and the hot takes that they have, it’ll be easy to fall for it.
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