![]() ![]() It’s as if he’s going one-on-five in basketball. ![]() Johnson, who turned 40 in April, has gone on to outperform deep-pocketed social media teams paid to mimic his style. “I would just be sitting there watching and that was kind of the one quiet place I could go just to see the numbers run up.” “I’m sure people thought I had bowel issues or whatever, but I didn’t,” Johnson said. He started tweeting during his day job at a media company and slipped into the men’s room to delight in the metrics. Those three words crystallized Johnson’s future endeavors, his career no longer at a crossroads in the search for a winning path. The tweet generated more than 140,000 likes and nearly 5,000 quote tweets, including one from the film’s director. Johnson had around 25,000 Twitter followers in 2019 when he posted a clip from Peele’s horror film “Get Out” to illustrate troubled wide receiver Antonio Brown meeting new teammate Josh Gordon at the New England Patriots’ training facility. He posts an image of white nationalists hoisting tiki torches during their notorious 2017 march on the University of Virginia. Having played for UCLA in the early 2000s when the retired John Wooden would watch practices, kidding the benchwarmer about dribbling two balls as part of an ambidexterity drill when he could play with only one, Johnson has learned to be quick but never hurry.įinally, as the crowd roars after Miami overtakes the Celtics with a massive third-quarter run, Johnson’s got it. If Jayson Tatum continues to pile up points, maybe the Boston Celtics scorer also will star on Johnson’s timeline. Maybe he’ll tweet about a celebrity in the crowd doing something funny. The possibilities unfurl on a large flat-screen television in the opener of the NBA’s Eastern Conference finals. His more than 246,000 Twitter followers are waiting. ![]() His laptop rests comfortably on his thighs, iPhone clutched in his right hand. His gameday attire includes a faded Seattle SuperSonics T-shirt. Slouched deep into one corner of a velvety couch in his spare bedroom, bare feet propped on a matching ottoman, Josiah Johnson is searching for his big moment, like a point guard probing a defense. ![]()
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