Kevin Durant lights up the Internet 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, aounced 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.