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Athletes are, for the most part, not good at social media. That’s why, these days, most of the biggest stars in the sports world have their social media presence managed by professionals to avoid the athletes doing something very dumb.
But, occasionally, things will fall through the cracks and the athletes will make hilariously bad posts that are quite memorable. Recently, Bleacher Report asked fans to name the funniest social media posts by athletes.
What's the funniest social media post ever by an athlete? pic.twitter.com/4GhWmK6zcl
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) June 29, 2023
Here are some of the best. Lots of LeBron, Kevin Durant, and other NBA players. Quite frankly, those two are the kings of bad social media posts.
Whenever LeBron pretends to read and he's always on the first 10 pages. pic.twitter.com/h030bNwkZf
— BettingPros (@BettingPros) June 29, 2023
— Ricky Chu (@RikDaddy) June 29, 2023
— Daily Grind Fantasy Sports (@DGFantasy) June 29, 2023
— OddsJam.com (@OddsJam) June 29, 2023
This exchange between Kevin Durant and Kendrick Perkins gotta be up there 😭😭😭😭 https://t.co/mL5zKuExWh pic.twitter.com/XbiyJN9Csz
— Bucketsquad (@BucketSQD) June 29, 2023
English soccer legend Wayne Rooney also had some funny ones in the early 2010s.
His twitter run from 2010-2012 was so peak https://t.co/SInjjnIvuN pic.twitter.com/2hxAdPH1oa
— 🔗 (@Gideoomatic) June 29, 2023
But, in my opinion, the Granddaddy of them all is this tweet from former Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones.
Cardale Jones' Ohio St bio says he was a scholar athlete in the two quarters BEFORE he sent this tweet pic.twitter.com/8vgCjnZn9B
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) January 2, 2015
The moral of the story is, athletes really need to listen to the social media managers.