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NBA Star Slams JJ Watt For Offering To Pay For Funerals Of Santa Fe Victims
Blue Lives Matter ^ | 20 May 2018 | OfficerBlue

Posted on 05/20/2018 4:53:41 PM PDT by COBOL2Java


NBA star Stephen Jackson went on the offensive against JJ Watt after news of his good deed.


Santa Fe, TX - After the school shooting in Santa Fe on Friday, NFL star JJ Watt said that he would pay for the funerals for all 10 of the people who were murdered in the shooting.

The offer follows Watt raising $37 million for victims of Hurricane Harvey.

However, former NBA star Stephen Jackson found a way to slam Watt for offering to help, according to Total Pro Sports.

In response to the news that Watt was going to personally pay for the funerals, Jackson said on Instagram "Still got all that hurricane bread people donated might as well."

He followed up with, "All that bread PA Texas would have been rebuilt by now if it was sent to me."

Millions of people were hit by the massive hurricane last year, which estimates say caused up to $200 billion in damage, according to ABC News.

When Watt was asked in February where the money went, he pointed out that they could only do so much with so many victims.

"There are 2.3 million people in Houston alone, Kim. I apologize that we aren’t able to reach every single person, it’s simply not possible. We’ve rebuilt homes & day cares, provided food & medical care and our work is far from finished! I promise we’re doing the best we can!!!" Watt posted on social media.

Jackson knows just how far $37 million goes, as he was paid around $68 million during his time in the NBA, according to Sports Illustrated.

When the NBA star made the "most overpaid players" list, he said he was actually underpaid.

"I've been underpaid my whole career," he said, according to Sports Illustrated. "You do the math. It's adding up. Who cares? Whether they think that or not, I'm still getting paid almost $10 million this year."

The number of funerals that Jackson has offered to pay for is estimated to be zero.


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To: HiTech RedNeck

I assume so. I have to plead ignorance about JJ Watt. Looking at it from the outside, he seems like a genuine, caring person. I don’t have enough information to purport to claim otherwise.


21 posted on 05/20/2018 5:16:22 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Wonderful theory, wrong species)
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To: COBOL2Java

Just more proof that “No good deed goes unpunished”


22 posted on 05/20/2018 5:17:18 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: COBOL2Java

Leftists are pure trash, wow!


23 posted on 05/20/2018 5:17:41 PM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: jazusamo

What kind of evil spirit have people embraced, that trash talk is imagined as a virtue?


24 posted on 05/20/2018 5:18:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: COBOL2Java

I can only ask why every Houston area pro athelete isn’t helping? Baseball basketball too


25 posted on 05/20/2018 5:22:47 PM PDT by Sybeck1
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To: EEGator

So Jackson is just a jealous, insecure moron.


26 posted on 05/20/2018 5:24:19 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Crucial

Essentially. You could also add ghetto trash.


27 posted on 05/20/2018 5:25:51 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: COBOL2Java

Amish scum!


28 posted on 05/20/2018 5:26:05 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I don’t know but this Jackson has to be a real piece of work.

What JJ Watt offered to do seems to me it comes from the heart, he sure didn’t have to do it and it’s pathetic someone would slam him over it.


29 posted on 05/20/2018 5:26:52 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

It appears he’s being obliquely accused of having kept some of the hurricane benefit funds and now using it on Santa Fe while claiming it his. That sounds highly implausible.


30 posted on 05/20/2018 5:30:18 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: COBOL2Java

The guy is an a-hole and idiot. It doesn’t take much to read between the lines of what this dirt bag in insinuating.


31 posted on 05/20/2018 5:34:33 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: EEGator

What else could Jackson’s motivation besides racism.


32 posted on 05/20/2018 5:35:15 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Yep, that’s the implication I got but it was purely a slam without offering one bit of foundation to it, bush league in my view and I’m not referring to presidents. :)


33 posted on 05/20/2018 5:35:44 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

Yeah... If somebody’s going to insinuate this I’d want some kind of proof. At least some reporter asking Watt.


34 posted on 05/20/2018 5:39:41 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: COBOL2Java

This is why I haven’t watched an NBA game for 40 years.


35 posted on 05/20/2018 5:43:19 PM PDT by tgusa (gun control: hitting center of mass)
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To: SuperLuminal

Stop with the Amish crap already. It’s not funny. Whoever started it is an idiot.


36 posted on 05/20/2018 5:47:16 PM PDT by mindburglar (I have an above average brain stem)
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To: mindburglar

Please forgive me...I beg you...


37 posted on 05/20/2018 6:00:48 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: COBOL2Java

SJ only knows selfishness and grandstanding. It’s cultural. He needs redemptive love in his life. JJ is way beyond this kind of selfishness and grandstanding. God bless JJ and his act of kindness!


38 posted on 05/20/2018 6:13:43 PM PDT by pke
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To: COBOL2Java

Sj perfect example of human showing off their ignorance ...thanks to social media you can see it firsthand.


39 posted on 05/20/2018 6:31:05 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: SuperLuminal

No worries, friend. I just feel bad for the Amish. They don’t use computers, so they can’t defend themselves.


40 posted on 05/20/2018 6:34:44 PM PDT by mindburglar (I have an above average brain stem)
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