The gift that keeps on giving is, as you perhaps already know, former Wolves guard Rashad McCants’ Twitter page. It catches our eye frequently, and one of those occasions was yesterday. It was an eye-opener, particularly in light of the recent sad news about Steve McNair. These are verbatim (sic).

Tweet 1: Looked thro my chicks phone and I be damn if she didn’t have more league [redacted] numbers then I did.. Even unc teamate. I don’t even have it.

Translated, to the best of our abilities, for the Rashad/Twitter impaired: He’s been seeing a woman and recently went through the list of contacts in her phone. She has more telephone numbers for other gentlemen who play in the NBA than Rashad does. She even has the number of one of his former North Carolina teammates, which he does not even have.

Tweet 2: Crazy thing is… I’m not mad…. Chicks gotta keep options too… Just sad her options aren’t nothing of a comparison..lol how yall doin?

Translated, again, to the best of our abilities: While he could get upset or jealous about the other men this woman knows, Rashad isn’t experiencing those things. Life is based on choice, and he is confident that she has chosen him because he is far superior in many ways to any of the other NBA players in her phone. Laughing out loud.

The point: Twitter might just expose the world to a subculture of athlete romance unknown a decade ago and only occasionally glimpsed as digital cameras became part of the club scene. Should be interesting to see how things go from here, particularly when some folks don’t let go of love quite as freely as McCants.

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