Two days after Vanity Fair premiered the cover image of its July issue, led by a feature story in which Caitlyn Jenner — the U.S. Olympian and reality television star formerly known as Bruce Jenner — speaks publicly for the first time since completing her gender transition, and one day before the start of the 2015 NBA Finals, Cleveland Cavaliers guard J.R. Smith re-posted an Instagram photo also shared by rapper Snoop Dogg referring to Jenner as "that science project."
In the photo, which Smith has since deleted, Smith reproduced Snoop's still-live image lamenting a relative lack of media coverage for rapper Akon's efforts to launch a widescale solar energy project aiming to expand access to electricity to some of the estimated 600 million people in Africa who lack it.