You know Rex Chapman, right? He’s the former NBA player and Twitter personality who does the “block or charge” videos. He’ll post a clip of a skateboarder crashing into an elephant and then ask whether the skateboarder should be whistled for charging, or whether the elephant did not have its feet set.
He was a pretty damn good basketball player, and I’m not sure some of his followers even realize that. Rex was a first round draft pick out of Kentucky in 1988 and played for the Hornets, Bullets, Heat, and Suns over a career that lasted 12 years. Chapman did some TV and worked as a scout for a bit after calling it a career.
A few years back, after a shoplifting arrest, he admitted that he had been battling pill addiction for more than 15 years. As such, he began a foundation to help folks dealing with opioid problems, and last night announced that he was partnering that foundation with another Kentucky foundation to raise money for non-profits battling the Coronavirus pandemic:
Please give this 1-minute of your time.
This is the Twitter content I’m here for…💪🌎❤️🌎😇❤️🌎💪 pic.twitter.com/9FAiCgav4g
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) March 23, 2020
Good news:
In less than 12 hours, Rex and his followers raised more than $100,000:
Rex Chapman Foundation COVID-19 Relief-Fund update:
In only hours we have received some 1,700 donations and $101,000. Humanity.🌎
THANK YOU AND LET’S GO!❤️
Please give if you can…https://t.co/v2smu7MsiR
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) March 23, 2020
These are good stories. This is the type of stuff you love seeing when we’re dealing with a crisis. Shout out to Rex Chapman for being the man.
Here’s a block or charge video:
Block or charge?🏀🤷♂️🏈😱💥🤭 pic.twitter.com/45dOrYJkXO
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) October 9, 2019
5 Responses
very cool stoary. I didn’t know he got his life back together. Good news all around!!
clealry a charge in the video
I am not afraid of criminals with guns. I am brave.
is that Moby?
❄️🧚♂️❄️🧚♂️
Crime rate in my neighborhood is 0. I feel safe.
Zero. Nada. Zippo. Zilch.
When the looting, rioting, zombies and when the British attack again I am ready. Just not petrified at the moment.
How you doin? Scared?
When does the looting start?
Shhhhhhhhhhhh
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