Twitter and the "genius GM" absurdity  Sam Presti ... GENIUS!!
How you can consistently proclaim an NBA general manager a
"genius" in 140 characters? It's done every day in the
blogosphere, specifically bloggers who have twitter accounts.
Let's explore how a soundbite world leads to hyperbole and doing
a disservice to good general managers.  And yes, a certain GM in
Oklahoma will come up.  Twitter's penchant of overstatement and
gross hyperbole didn't actually bother me at all until I was
following along the 2012 NBA Draft earlier in June. It is then
that I snapped and realized that this almost zealous need to be
both snarky and full of praise in the same small statement was a
detriment to many, many things. This time, NBA General managers.
Praise isn't the word ... utter and complete hyperbolic
screaming praise.  You see, if there is one GM in the NBA that
get's the most run on twitter it would unequivocally be Sam
Presti, general manager of the Oklahoma City Thunder. This is
clear every time his name comes