Stephen Jackson / Andrew Wiggins Feud

Overview

Stephen Jackson and Andrew Wiggins Feud refers to a back-and-forth between former NBA player Stephen Jackson and Minnesota Timberwolves player Andrew Wiggum in which Jackson accused Wiggins of having "no heart," meaning no love for basketball. Screenshots of Jackson's videos towards Wiggins were used as reaction images on Twitter.

Background

On September 19th, 2018, Minnesota Timberwolves player Jimmy Butler made public that he wanted to be traded from the team.^[1] In a since-deleted tweet, Nick Wiggins, brother of Timberwolves player Andrew Wiggins, tweeted "Hallelujah," evidently in celebration of Butler wanting out of Minnesota.^[2] Butler responded on Instagram with a video of himself celebrating in a field captioned "Hallelujah" (tweeted repost shown below).

Former NBA player Stephen Jackson weighed in on the situation in a video on his personal Instagram account, imagining a hypothetical conversation between Andrew Wiggins and his brother. In the video, Jackson claimed Wiggins had no heart or love for the game of basketball (shown below).

Developments

In response to Jackson's video, Wiggins posted barbs towards Jackson on his Instagram, essentially calling him old and a bum (shown below).^[3]

Jackson responded with a video rebutting Wiggins' claim, wishing him a good season and hoping he finds "heart," and ending with what appeared to be a threat, saying "catch me in traffic."

After the second of Jackson's videos was posted, Twitter users took screenshots of it and paired them with captions making Jackson appear threatening. For example, Twitter user @KingJosiah54 gained over 100 retweets and 310 likes saying "How ya uncle look when he give you $10 to grab him a pack of Kools and you ask if you can keep the change" (shown below, left). Writer Dave Schilling posted the photo with a quote from The Wire, gaining 19 retweets and 40 likes (shown below, right).

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