Attention NBA bigshots: David Stern is listening to your tweets, and he’s not happy!

David Stern’s NBA has long been known for nailing any league employee who questions a referee’s calls  (or pretty much anything else having to do with the NBA).  Usually the perpetrator slips up during a post-game interview, and that slip-up comes out in print or on television. But this time it happened on Twitter, courtesy of basketball mastermind Marc Cuban:

how do they not call a tech on JR Smith for coming off the bench to taunt our player on the ground ?

But Cuban isn’t the only NBA personality to get carried away with Twitter during a game. Milwaukee Bucks forward Charlie Villanueva tweeted at halftime during a huge victory over the Celtics. A few days later, Phoenix Suns center and former rap star, Shaquille O’Neal, aka @the_real_shaq, followed suit, cleverly shushing the entire Twitterverse at the 3rd quarter break of a game versus Washington.

Shaq of course received no punishment or rebuke of anykind…nothing – just like when he used to body slam my cousin Arvydas during the NBA playoffs, using nothing but his ginormous rear. The absence of any punishment was as Shaq predicted:

Attention all twitterers I’m a tweet at halftime and not get fined like vill a new wave a whteva his name is