No one is safe in the social media age -- not even NBA head coaches in charge of basketball savant twenty-somethings.
New York Knicks head man Mike Woodson, no stranger to bold fashion choices, probably thought he could wear his super fly white-on-black polka dot button down without becoming an Internet spectacle on Thursday. He thought wrong, thanks to JR Smith, one of the team's star scorers and a (PR-unapproved) champion of the mobile social web.
Smith posted this tweet from what looks like the team plane on Thursday morning:
#Top5WorstShirtsIveSeenInMyLife! instagram.com/p/XIXBM1tfG2/— JR Smith (@TheRealJRSmith) March 21, 2013
Here is the corresponding Instagram, showing the shirt in question:
As you can see, the post received more than 22,000 likes and much Woodson-directed derision in a matter of hours.
Time will tell how the post affects Smith's playing time in the Knicks' next game, which is Friday night against the Toronto Raptors -- but it's hardly his first time making fans laugh on Twitter or Instagram.
In January, Smith epically burned Kim Kardashian ex Kris Humphries in a tweet after Humphries tried to do a bit of Twitter gloating about his Brooklyn Nets beating the Knicks in an NYC rivalry game.
Then a month later one of the most comical Twitter DM exchanges by a sports star ever, starring JR Smith, was revealed -- one that also offered a window into how NBA players pick up women on social media. After a rather unique hashtag became a mini viral hit on the basketball Twitters, Smith responded with a pretty clever Instagram rebuttal to the masses.
So, moral of the story? Follow @TheRealJRSmith.
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