The NBA is back, and so is Trish Christakis, dropping throwbacks and viral heat like no one else.
Reporter Trish Christakis wrapped up last season for the Miami Heat on a high note. This despite the fact that the team was swept in the first-round of the playoffs by the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Game 4 of the series was about as ugly as an NBA game can get, with the Heat losing by 55 points to end their season. Thankfully, for the team, Christakis fired off a tweet signing off for the season.
The post went insanely viral and put up numbers that erased the ugly ending to the season from many fans’ memories. As of today, the pinned tweet has 11.8 million views and a healthy 24,000 bookmarks.
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Christakis viral run didn’t only help to get the bad taste out the mouths of Heat fans, it earned the Greek-American reporter a new nickname from the media in Greece.
They were calling her “Greek Freak 2.0” as they recognized her viral social media success. It’s a title that she enjoys: “So apparently TV stations in Greece are calling me Greek freak 2.0 might be the funniest thing to come out of this.”
Just last week, Christakis ended up on the cover of Esquire Greece. And on Tuesday, as one of the favorites on NBA Twitter, she welcomed the NBA season back with a throwback from her first season covering the Heat.
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The Los Angeles Lakers, as one of the four teams in action tonight to tip-off the NBA season, along with the Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets, and Oklahoma City Thunder, received some love in her welcome back tweet.
The Heat get their season started on the road tomorrow night against the Orlando Magic. Christakis’ welcome mat for the new season picked up with NBA fans where she had left off last season. Let’s just say they’re happy she’s back too, even if it’s a throwback.
The league hasn’t forgotten about Greek Freak 2.0. She’s still on the radar and is set up nicely to have a big season down in Miami covering the Heat.
The Heat, on the other hand, might be in for a long season. They’re hopeful a new offensive approach can help them improve, but it’s being described after the preseason as “a work in progress.”
Normally, that would seem like a bad thing. But if the early response to Trish Christakis’ “heat check” is any indication, then she should be able to erase a bad season as easily as she erased a disappointing playoff run.
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