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Playoff Talking Points: Dead Reckoning

By Bethlehem ShoalsApr 29th 2010 – 12:41PM

No one with a wife and kids, or the need to eat leafy greens, has time to watch all this basketball. But we do. So, as a service to the public, here are the Playoff Talking Points you need to fake it at the water cooler: • Pistols at Night: Like the forest, the playoffs have no shortage of stories. There are...

Chauncey Billups Helps J.R. Smith Through Troubled Times

By Chris TomassonJan 25th 2010 – 2:00AM

DENVER -- Denver guard Chauncey Billups last summer went to Las Vegas to work out with troubled teammate J.R. Smith and to knock some sense into his head. With Smith again being in the news for something negative, Billups is taking a more calm approach. The Nuggets are pondering whether to suspend Smith for Monday's game...

FanHouse Preview: Denver Nuggets

By Chris TomassonOct 20th 2009 – 1:00PM

FanHouse previews all 30 NBA teams in advance of the 2009-10 season. Denver's previous coach wasn't bashful about title talk. "To win a championship, you've got to talk championship,'' Michael Cooper said on several occasions as members of the media attempted to keep from snickering. Let's just say Cooper, who compiled...

J.R. Smith Absent but Excused for Nuggets Preseason Opener

By Chris TomassonOct 1st 2009 – 10:55PM

SALT LAKE CITY -- No, J.R. Smith's suspension hasn't begun yet.Nevertheless, the Denver Nuggets guard, who will have to sit out the first seven games of the regular season due to an NBA penalty, wasn't with the Nuggets when they opened the preseason Thursday night at Utah. But Denver vice president of basketball operations...

J.R. Smith Calls Time in Jail Most Humbling Experience of His Life

By Chris TomassonSep 25th 2009 – 9:31PM

DENVER -- For the first week, J.R. Smith just stared at the walls. Finally, he got a radio and listened to sports talk shows.Eventually, though, there was so little to do in jail that Smith found himself perusing a chemistry book that was sitting around. Not that Smith claims he now knows his periodic table of elements.The...

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Background on J.r.Smith

Earl Joseph Smith III, known as J. R. Smith (born September 9, 1985, in Freehold, New Jersey), is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks.

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