Immediately following the final buzzer for an Atlanta Hawks game pops a purple bubble at the top of timeline’s of most Hawks fans’ Twitter applications.
After you click the purple bubble and “start listening,” you begin to hear passionate basketball fans yelling — whether it stems from excitement or frustration.
You have now entered a HawksFanTV postgame space.
“I’d say it’s a it’s a good balance between controlled toxicity and constructive conversation,” HawksFanTV founder Alex Chung told Peachtree Hoops.
There are fanbase-specific Twitter spaces throughout the NBA. Perhaps the most-known moment was when Russell Westbrook’s brother hopped on a Los Angeles Lakers’ fan space to defend his brother’s eyesight.