Earlier today, NBA Twitter went peak emoji when the Mavericks' Chandler Parsons and the Clippers' J.J. Redick started detailing their mode of transportation in order to get a face-to-face conversation with DeAndre Jordan. Eventually, Chris Paul tweeted out a pair of emojis referencing the now infamous banana boat and Paul Pierce got in on the fun with a rocket emoji fresh off the copy machine.
Michael Jordan's team chimed in with some facts.
It was all cool, however, we couldn't help but wonder when the usually social media savvy Kobe Bryant was going to get involved in #EmojiGate. Then...
From that moment on, we were frequently hitting that refresh button like:
Five minutes later, Bryant added his two cents.
It was the emoji-version of this:
And it was a beautiful thing. #mambaout
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