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Today LeBron James was trending so I used that for the wordcloud. I like basketball but I am not a big fan of LeBron. It turned out that his team Cleveland Cavaliers lost to Golden State Warriors. In the last 4 minutes he tried to turn the game around but it didn't work out.

In the wordcloud there are words that confused me. Maybe something about "caught", "trash", "talking"? Steph Curry, who plays for Warriors shows up frequently. So does Kobe although he wasn't playing for either of the teams. But it might be for some other story.


 

The sentiment was way more positive. This suggests that his fans were tweeting. This sentiment graph also marks a departure from the last few neutral sentiment charts!




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