As old social media posts have resurfaced and prominent athletes have been forced into public soul-baring in recent weeks, sports agents have undertaken emergency Twitter work, carefully excavating, scrutinizing and, if need be, deleting youthful indiscretions and ignorance.
Agents across multiple sports say recent headlines have prompted athletes to delve into their Twitter histories, searching for anything offensive or controversial that might have been sitting forgotten and unnoticed. One NBA team even reached out to representatives of all its players this week, according to an agent, urging them “to do a deep dive” through social media histories.
“If you told someone a month ago they need to look into this stuff, they’d say OK, whatever,” one agent said.