Paul George declares for the draft ... via twitter

Last week, we had out first players declare for the NBA Draft.

Sources told Jeff Goodman that Iowa State's Craig Brackins would be announcing his intentions to enter the draft sometime in the coming days. He's not the only one on the Cyclones heading to the league. Marquis Gilstrap had an appeal for a sixth season of eligibility denied by the NCAA, meaning that his next step is logically to try and get drafted.

That is normally how things go when you declare for the draft, right?

For the most part, we can specualte who is and who isn't going to declare. Then at some point, the all-knowing "sources" start leaking info that so-and-so is going to declare for the draft. Eventually, a press conference is held, announcements are made, and we move on and start discussing who has signed with an agent, who will withdraw, mock draft orders, etc.

Well, this is a new day and age, and with the internet and social media websites providing previously unseen amounts of access to those in the spot light, sometimes news breaks in a different matter.

Call it the @OGOchoCinco effect.

You may not know the name Paul George, but you can rest assured that NBA Draftniks do. George became a mini-internet celebrity -- at least in my small corner of the intrawebs -- with this dunk early last season.

George is making internet waves again today, as he essentially declared for the NBA Draft last night, not an hour after his Fresno State Bulldogs lost their last game in the WAC tournament.

It was all but a given he was gone as it is, but it is still surprising to see a college player state his intentions so soon after a season-ending loss and, well via twitter.

I guess that's the world we live in these days.