By Jimmy Carlton Sportswriter Published Nov 17, 2015 at 4:26 PM

Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker are a lot of things.

Former teammates and Wisconsin legends. Tall guys and good friends. First-round draft picks and NBA millionaires.

And also, Twitter titans. 

More than most professional athletes, Kaminsky and Dekker embrace social media – especially Twitter. They interact directly with fans (admiring supporters and trolling haters alike), engage journalists and fellow players, comment on news of other teams (especially during Packer games) and post personal views on sports and non-sports issues. Both rookies tweet often and already have more than 136,000 followers; third-year Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo, for comparison, has about 112,000. 

While many players’ social media accounts are run by hired professionals, littered with promoted and product-sponsored content or are incomprehensible, insufferable or just plain inane, the ex-Badgers are accessible, genuine, bright and funny. 

Now that their first professional seasons have gotten underway, both Kaminsky and Dekker have slowed their Twitter rolls a bit to focus on basketball and #grinding. We thought this would be a good time to look back and appreciate their social-media work.

The two players will always be compared in the NBA because they’re Badgers from the same draft class – and on the court so far, Kaminsky, with 29 points and 12 rebounds in nine games, has the edge on Dekker, who hasn’t yet scored in three games.

But who’s better on Twitter? Let’s find out by arbitrarily matching them up in some basic categories. 

On Justin Bieber

On the Packers

On dumb fans

On Badgers QB Joel Stave

On movies

On the haters

On food

On observations of life

Verdict

While Dekker thrives as a sharp replier and clever quote-retweeter, Kaminsky's stream-of-consciousness originality easily makes him the winner. (Neither player responded to a tweeted request for comment about who was better at Twitter.) To commemorate Kaminsky's victory, here are some more of his gems from the past few months:

On yoga

On other jobs

On race

On politics

On dreams

Jimmy Carlton Sportswriter

Born in Milwaukee but a product of Shorewood High School (go ‘Hounds!) and Northwestern University (go ‘Cats!), Jimmy never knew the schoolboy bliss of cheering for a winning football, basketball or baseball team. So he ditched being a fan in order to cover sports professionally - occasionally objectively, always passionately. He's lived in Chicago, New York and Dallas, but now resides again in his beloved Brew City and is an ardent attacker of the notorious Milwaukee Inferiority Complex.

After interning at print publications like Birds and Blooms (official motto: "America's #1 backyard birding and gardening magazine!"), Sports Illustrated (unofficial motto: "Subscribe and save up to 90% off the cover price!") and The Dallas Morning News (a newspaper!), Jimmy worked for web outlets like CBSSports.com, where he was a Packers beat reporter, and FOX Sports Wisconsin, where he managed digital content. He's a proponent and frequent user of em dashes, parenthetical asides, descriptive appositives and, really, anything that makes his sentences longer and more needlessly complex.

Jimmy appreciates references to late '90s Brewers and Bucks players and is the curator of the unofficial John Jaha Hall of Fame. He also enjoys running, biking and soccer, but isn't too annoying about them. He writes about sports - both mainstream and unconventional - and non-sports, including history, music, food, art and even golf (just kidding!), and welcomes reader suggestions for off-the-beaten-path story ideas.