--- description: NBA players read mean tweets about themselves title: Watch NBA Players Hilariously Read Mean Tweets About Themselves image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte27186749e86a889/698697bf55a8590e65a81639/482540137.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch NBA Players Hilariously Read Mean Tweets about Themselves by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 16, 2014 5:31 PM CUT  NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 01: (NEW YORK DAILIES OUT) Jeremy Lin #7 of the Houston Rockets warms up against the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center on April 1, 2014 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.The Nets defeated the Rockets 105-96\. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images) NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 01: (NEW YORK DAILIES OUT) Jeremy Lin #7 of the Houston Rockets warms up against the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center on April 1, 2014 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.The Nets defeated the Rockets 105-96\. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)Jim McIsaac / Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 16, 2014 5:31 PM CUT Jimmy Kimmel loves to invite [celebrities](http://time.com/108903/celebrities-read-mean-tweets-jimmy-kimmel/ "undefined") to read mean tweets about themselves on his late-night talk show. On Sunday night he asked NBA players to do the honors. Players recited tweets that ranged from light digs — like “Damarcus Cousins is an emotional lesbian” — to some legitimately cruel and profanity-ridden rants. Some of the athletes simply read the tweets and move on, but others sling back an insult or two. Jeremy Lin, for example, reads the following message: “Jermy lin needs to git the weight room” and swiftly replies, “You need to GIT the spell check.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2883363/watch-nba-players-hilariously-read-mean-tweets-about-themselves/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2883363/watch-nba-players-hilariously-read-mean-tweets-about-themselves/"},"headline":"Watch NBA Players Hilariously Read Mean Tweets about Themselves","datePublished":"2014-06-16T17:31:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:49.294Z","description":"\"If anything ever happens to the guy that does the voice for Cookie Monster...I can sleep at night knowing we have Dikembe Mutombo as backup.\"","url":"https://time.com/2883363/watch-nba-players-hilariously-read-mean-tweets-about-themselves/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Basketball","Sports topic","viral","Tweets","NBA"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte27186749e86a889/698697bf55a8590e65a81639/482540137.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte27186749e86a889/698697bf55a8590e65a81639/482540137.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Houston Rockets v Brooklyn Nets","caption":"Houston Rockets v Brooklyn Nets","creditText":"Jim McIsaac / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2883363/watch-nba-players-hilariously-read-mean-tweets-about-themselves/","name":"Watch NBA Players Hilariously Read Mean Tweets about Themselves"}}]}] ```