Basketball Wives Star Claps Back At C.J. McCollum Fans Who Mistook Her for Warriors Fan with Same Name Who Said He Needed to ‘Win a Playoff’

A sexy shot of Jennifer Williams posing in a skimpy one-piece swimsuit was overridden by remarks about Portland Trail Blazers guard C.J. McCollum leading the team to win Game 1 of their first-round NBA playoffs series.

It all went down in the comments section of Williams’ Instagram photo, which she uploaded on Saturday, April 13.

The “Basketball Wives” star posed in a black bathing suit with a plunging neckline and cutouts along the sides.

“Only worries for today are these tan lines 💋 @nandi.khubone coming thru with the 📸” Williams captioned the post, which was uploaded from Studio City, California.

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Jennifer Williams. (Photo: @jenniferwilliams/Instagram)

Days later, however, Williams was confused with another Jennifer Williams who went viral last year when she challenged McCollum over his apparent inability to win a playoff game.

As such, fans hopped into the reality show star’s Instagram comments to let her know the NBA guard scored 24 points to send the Trail Blazers to a 104-99 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 1 on April 14.

“Hey, CJ finally won that playoff game.”

“Cj Mccolumm won a playoff game.”

“Hey, CJ finally won that playoff game.”

“Trying to avoid the absolute embarrassment CJ handed you😂”

“CJ won a playoff game! He gonna talk big all over ur ass so sit down 🤣”

In August 2018, McCollum responded to a tweet from The Score that declared he “really hates ring chasing.” The website quoted him saying he thinks “it’s disgusting” that players were joining the Golden State Warriors to land a championship title.

“Y’all stay bringing up old stuff. Yall got me out here looking like a bitter ex. 1 of the best teams ever assembled W/ 2 players you could argue are top 15 greatest to lace them up. 4 hall of famers w/ another one on the way. I’m happy stop making me look like a scorn man sheesh,” he tweeted in response.

Then, Twitter user Jennifer Williams, who is a Warriors fan, replied, “Win a playoff game then talk.”

“Im trying Jennifer,” McCollum replied. His tweet went viral and since racked up more than 14,000 retweets and over 48,000 likes.

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However, Williams the “BBW” star was not that same person who sent out the tweet to McCollum. She fired off a response to one of the Instagram users who mistook her for the viral Twitter user.

“@hayden._.loftin y’all gotta do better. You know I’m not the only JW on the planet. I don’t know him or her or WTF this dumb s–t is about. The only thing basketball related I’m tweeting about is Basketball Wives on @vh1 ✌🏽y’all can’t be this dumb!!!”

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