The Dallas Stars got the ball (puck?) rolling when it comes to sports entities trolling President Trump and his team over the inauguration crowd and related "alternative facts." On the Jumbotron at Saturday's Stars game — picture via the Twitter feed of @unlikelyfanatic — the Stars announced the attendance at 1.5 million.
The guess here is Dallas won't draw a similar number for its game against the Wild tonight. But other teams have picked up where the Stars left off.
The University of Tennessee sports information department put out a series of "alternative facts" (along with a disclaimer) in writing up game notes for Tuesday's men's basketball contest against Kentucky. Among them: "When Allan Houston enrolled at UT in 1989, he had only 1,100 followers on Twitter. But on Senior Day in 1993, his follower count had increased to more than 190,000. Vol Twitter stay woke."
And then there was Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, who had already previously spoken about Trump's inauguration. He told reporters Monday, "Kawhi [Leonard] is out with an injury that's not really an injury, but hopefully it will heal quickly. That's a figurative statement. It sounds like some of the things that are going on politically in the world. I apologize. I just gave an alternative fact. I shouldn't have done that. But it wasn't a lie, so don't try to pin that on me. I'm tired of you guys pinning that on me."
