Rockets twitter

I totally understand that not everyone reacts the same way to certain things. But damn, the stuff people get offended at sometimes baffles me. I spent years watching Wile E. Coyote getting anvils dropped on him, and Elmer Fudd getting blasted with his own shotgun. Are those cartoons considered poor taste now? I get that Dallas fans were ticked off at the loss and were probably looking to lash out but people outside the immediate rivalry with complaints are just silly.

 

Smh. No need for that kind of stupidity. Whoever made that tweet needs to get suspended pronto. Its not their personal twitter, its a representation of the entire organization and all of its employees.

 

Good thing Capela wasn't shooting the gun from the free throw line or the horse would still be alive.

Those free throw attempts were offensive.

 

Usually I'm a champion of the "grow up and stop being offended at everything" mentality. I wasn't offended by that tweet, but admittedly my first thought was "ummmmmmm...this may be a mistake".

 

I totally get that. It might have been on the wrong side of unprofessional but the backlash sounded like people were watching that scene in the Godfather.

Which, come to think of it, might have been a good tweet for me last night :grin:

 

i hate how PC we are now that a Sports Basketball team can't poke fun at each other with cartoon symbols!!!! Even though I hate that they did, they had to apologize and take it back because of a certain group of people who have nothing better to do than to find stuff to get fake angry about.

What a bunch on miserable and uptight a-holes

 

I thought it was funny. Nothing insensitive about it.

 

probably true, but a video of prison ass rape would have definitely been overboard

or do people think we respect them more than the tweet indicates? interesting theory.

 

The Rockets org apologized, that is enough, and shows they care enough to issue an apology and delete it.

DD

 

i would have liked to see 'my little pony' with a fishing rod between the hoofs

 

Anyone who was offended by a couple of emojis on a basketball team's twitter needs to GTFO of this country.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/HoustonRockets">@HoustonRockets</a> Not very classy but we still wish you guys the best of luck in the next round.</p>&mdash; Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) <a href="https://twitter.com/dallasmavs/status/593246832295182337">April 29, 2015</a></blockquote>
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IT was totally classy when Cuban said 'That's not a very good team over there' . you get stomped and then you ask for sportsmanship Dallas? Go **** yourselves.
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There's a difference between being offensive and being unprofessional. They are not necessarily one and the same, and it is disingenuous of people to conflate the two.

Was the tweet 'offensive'? Yes, but on a scale of 1 - 10, it was pretty low, like maybe a 2.

However, was it 'unprofessional'? Absolutely.

And it was definitely classless.

There were about a million other things which would have been better to tweet on the *Official Twitter Account of the Houston Rockets Organization*. And I'm sure that as soon as Morey or whoever else in charge saw it, they jumped on a phone and told the drunk twitter/blogger/whatever dude to delete it immediately.

Because it was beneath the club, it was beneath the players, it was beneath the city of Houston, and it was beneath MOST of the Rockets fans.

I say MOST, but yeah, special kudos to the mensa member running around leaving anonymous rep messages of '*** off' when anyone criticized the tweet.

You stay classy, anonymous internet warrior.

 

This is freaking hilarious. I understand why they took it down but it was hilarious. If Cuban wouldn't have made those comments and it wasn't the freaking Mavericks I would have a problem with it.

 

Without those emojis it could have been interpreted with a whole different meaning, and would have taken more than an apology tweet to fix.

 

It's twitter....

 

JUST LOOK AT THE FLOWERS MAVS...JUST LOOK AT THE FLOWERS!

 

Ha I think we're thinking of the same thing. If i didn't see the emojis either I took it for something completely different and worse.

 

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Just close your eyes. It will all be over soon.</p>&mdash; Gregory Popovich (@FakeCoachPop) <a href="https://twitter.com/FakeCoachPop/status/593290470588952577">April 29, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Dallas will never get to tend the rabbits.