ANTHONY GETTINO
Sports Editor
As the 2020 election finally comes to a close and Joe Biden has been declared the winner, athletes across all sports in America are reacting to the news in many different ways.
Most took to Twitter to celebrate the news.
In the WNBA, star athletes such as Sue Byrd and Breanna Stewart tweeted photos of the soon to be President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris along with the message, “Glad we at least got something right” and celebratory emojis.
Alex Morgan and Meghan Rapinoe were two of many U.S. women’s soccer players that were active on social media after the news came out and both were quite happy with the result.
Players in the MLB were also responding to the news, like Jack Flaherty of the St. Louis Cardinals.
The NBA was where most of the noise came from, as it had arguably the funniest tweets by any athletes to come from the results.
One notable tweet was from Joel Embiid of the Philadelphia 76ers, who coined the “Trust the Process” phrase early in his career. He tweeted “Well America TRUSTED THE PROCESS and it paid off #TheProcess.”
Others who tweeted included Donovan Mitchell, Kyle Lowry and Lebron James.
Speaking of Lebron James, he had one of the best tweets of the entire campaign season as well. It was a picture of his famous chase down block on Andre Iguodala in game seven of the 2016 NBA Finals that he and his team came back to win in historic fashion. Instead of his and Iguodalas faces however, it was instead Biden as James and Trump as Iguodala.
While many athletes were happy with the results, there were a few that were upset. Among those was UFC fighter Colby Covington.
Covington was quite upset with the counting of ballots in different states the last few days and has since tweeted “Freedom of speech is paramount in this country!!! Censorship is Un-American!!!!”
Many of those who support Donald Trump haven’t tweeted since the news broke that Biden would be our next president. We’ll just have to wait and see in the next few days what their reactions may be.