You didnt have a great career Michael Jordan showed JR Smith the sad reality of his NBA sti
J.R. Smith played 16 seasons in the NBA, winning two titles with LeBron James in Cleveland and Los Angeles after carving out a place as a trusted experienced shooter later in his career. There are many of current and former NBA players who would gladly exchange places with Smith, and it’s safe to say he had a successful career.
Smith is now pursuing a second sporting career as a golfer, playing college golf at North Carolina A&T and becoming a face of the movement to make golf more inclusive and diverse. While Smith has had the opportunity to play golf with a variety of celebrities after his retirement from basketball, none have made him as excited as when he got to tee it up with Michael Jordan. Smith recalls tying Jordan one day and then watching Jordan “smoke” him in the second round while also providing some biting trash talk.
JR Smith’s illustrious career
J.R. Smith, a 16-year NBA veteran, won a championship in 2016 with the Cleveland Cavaliers and most recently with the 2020 Los Angeles Lakers at the Orlando Disneyland “bubble” campus, defeating Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat in six games. But obviously he wishes that his NBA journey didn’t finish there. Smith was a standout 3-and-D role player for the Denver Nuggets, New York Knicks, and Cleveland Cavaliers during his prime.
He shared the court with Lakers All-Star LeBron James for parts of five seasons. He joined the 2019-20 Lakers near the end of the regular season, appearing in just six games and averaging career lows in points (2.8), rebounds (0.8), and assists (0.5) in 13.2 minutes per night. Smith was then a part-time deep-bench reserve player for Los Angeles during the team’s postseason run, appearing in only 10 of the team’s 21 games and averaging 7.5 minutes.
He had not been able to carve out a true rotation run on a title team. Despite JR Smith’s current complaints, the end of his NBA career appears to have had more to do with his on-court performance than anything else. Smith has higher career averages of 12.4 points, 3.1 rebounds, 21 assists, and 1.0 steals per game.
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Smith, who was drafted with the No. 18 pick out of high school in 2004, is now a student at North Carolina A&T State University, where he has a 4.0 GPA and plays golf for the school’s team. Michael Jordan too isn’t far behind , well renowned for his basketball skills, but now that he is retired, he enjoys golf. From a competitive sense, he once remarked that golf is the “hardest game to play.”
Michael Jordan was regarded as a trash talker throughout his playing days. He even trash-talked his teammates on occasion. Jordan was clearly not the type of person to hold back in that regard. Michael Jordan was recently reported to have trash-talked J.R. Smith on the golf course. He informed Smith that the shooting guard had a “good career,” but it “wasn’t a great one.”
Speaking in a podcast, JR Smith recalled, “So we was betting, right? So I doubled down on one of my bets. I was like, 5 front, 5 back, and 5 overall. He was like, ‘alright, cool cool cool.’ I said, whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh, hundreds, not thousands. Hundreds. And he said, ‘no no no no no, I know what you talkin about. I know what you meant.’ And then he threw this jab at me low key, and I was like “ooh, that’s a good one.’ He said, ‘you had a good career, it wasn’t a great one, you had a good one.’”
Without a doubt, this is ridiculous trash talk from the GOAT. JR Smith did, in fact, enjoy a lengthy and fruitful career. He was a Sixth Man of the Year and won two championships however trash-talking is a part of being competitive on the golf field, and Michael Jordan clearly enjoys it. J. R. Smith was the unlucky receiver of his trash-talk this time, and he is unlikely to be the last.
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