Kevin Durant lights up the Inteet like a Roman candle - CNET

On a day when the No. 1 trending topic on Twitter should have been "Happy 4th of July," it is instead "Warriors."

Kevin Durant, a superstar basketball player, announced Monday that he is leaving the Oklahoma City Thunder for the Golden State Warriors.

By late moing Pacific Time, "Warriors" had topped 978,000 tweets and "Kevin Durant" had passed 703,000 tweets -- well ahead of "Happy 4th of July" with a mere 668,000 tweets.