Twitter Costs Another Athlete Money
Add Milwaukee Bucks guard Brandon Jennings to the list of athletes parting with their money due to Twitter, according to Milwaukee’s Newsradio 620.
In the case of Jennings, however, it wasn’t a negative tweet that did him in. Rather, he ran afoul of the National Basketball Association’s rules on social media, which prevent its use from 45 minutes before game time until players are done speaking with the media.
The tweet that cost Jennings $7,500 of his rookie salary:
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