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The Greta Show: How an 89-year-old went from 'practicing citizen' to Queen of NBA Twitter

Phoenix resident Greta Rogers, in a public meeting Dec. 12, 2018, lit into council members over a proposal to spend $150M to help renovate the Suns' arena. Phoenix City Council

The aging queen puffed her inhaler, took a deep breath and stepped into her chambers.

"All rise,” a Phoenix city employee named Mike Jankowski said when he spotted her through the double doors. He stood in playful reverence, making sure everybody knew who had just arrived: “Greta’s here.”

Half the room turned to look, and in shuffled 89-year-old Greta Rogers, Phoenix’s most famous critic and the newly crowned Queen of NBA Twitter.