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The Brooklyn Nets waived Jarrett Jack?on Thursday, cutting what they owed the point guard in salary from $6.3 million to $500,000. One day later, the Nets agreed to a three-year, $36 million deal with point guard Jeremy Lin, who marked the occasion with a tweet.Jack, perhaps in response to the news, tweeted about 20 minutes after Lin, though his reaction was slightly less straightforward.To be fair, we dont know for sure that Jacks tweet was about Lin getting $12 million per year -- nearly double what Jack has made for a season during his 11-year career. He could have been catching up on Veep on his DVR. Or maybe he was in a hot sculpting class and his instructor made a funny joke. But based on the 3,000-plus retweets on Jacks tweet, its safe to say the Twitter audience thought it was about Lins contract.Eventually Jack returned to Twitter to clarify the situation.So is this a case of throwing shade or just poor timing? The world may never know.Steve Young Jersey . The visitors took a deserved lead in the 16th minute with midfielder Yohan Cabaye curling the ball beyond Adrian from inside the penalty area. Matt Breida Youth Jersey . Ouellette, from Montreal, already has three Olympic gold medals since joining the team in 1999. http://www.thesf49ersshoponline.com/Youth-Jerry-Rice-49ers-Jersey/ . Hargreaves began his career in 2008 with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and has played with the Edmonton Eskimos and last season with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Jalen Hurd Jersey .Y. - Detroit goaltender Jonas Gustavsson has earned NHL first star of the week honours after winning in his first three appearances of the season. Frank Gore 49ers Jersey . -- Ryan Getzlaf grabbed the three pucks wrapped in tape and held them up to his chest in the Anaheim Ducks dressing room for a celebration nine seasons in the making.News broke Tuesday that Houston Texans star defensive end J.J. Watt may be lost for the season with a back injury, so what does that mean for one of the leagues most dominant defenses? We can quantify Watts bottom-line effect on a game by comparing the Texans expected points added (EPA) per play when he is on the field to their EPA/play when hes not.Since Watts rookie year in 2011, the Texans defense averaged minus-0.06 EPA/play with Watt on the field, and minus-0.04 EPA/play with Watt on the sideline. (Negative EPA is good for defenses.) That difference of 0.02 EPA/play equates to about 1.2 points per game based on Houstons average of 62.4 snaps per game. Those 1.2 points per game would be roughly equivalent to 4 percent win probability each game. So at first glance, Watts absence would be significant, but not necessarily fatal to the Texans playoff hopes.But Watt was not an every-down pllayer in his first year and a half in the league, and his performance found a whole new gear starting in 2013.dddddddddddd Since the start of the 2013 season, the difference in defensive performance with Watt on the field and off the field is a whopping 0.09 EPA/play. That equates to 5.6 points per game or roughly 20 percent win probability!There have been only 194 snaps without Watt since 13, so consider the 20 percent win probability number as an extreme upper bound of his impact. That kind of effect on win probability is what might be more typical when a team loses an elite quarterback to injury. But if any single defensive player can have as significant an impact on his teams prospects, it might be Watt, who is both a preeminent run defender and pass-rusher. ' ' '