J.R. Smith from basket to golf: athlete of 2022

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He joined North Carolina A&T State University in the summer of 2021 with the intention of joining the "Aggies" golf team and playing in the NCAA.

J.R. Smith, history

Now, Earl Joseph Smith III, known as J.R. Smith and winner of two NBA titles (the last with the Lakers in 2020), was awarded as "athlete of the year", for merits acquired, however, in the class and not on the green. This is the recognition reserved for him by North Carolina A&T State University, which allowed him to also receive the compliments of LeBron James, friend and former teammate. "I am proud of you, brother", the comment of "King James".

Almost two years later, J.R. Smith "spins the bag" for many players. The former Los Angeles Lakers cest, in an episode of the US podcast "All the Smoke" spoke about the situation in the Orlando bubble, where in the end it was the yellow-purple Los Angeles who won the ring in 2020. They then failed to confirm themselves in the following years.

"Smoking marijuana was the only way for everything to work in that condition," revealed Smith, in words translated by Sportando, "It was good. I'm glad it happened, because that barrier and stigma around marijuana is finally broken ”.

He then he added: “Basketball expressed in the bubble? Some were practically training matches, others were high-level competitions ".

Finally he concluded by saying: “Why did we smoke it? When you are on the pitch with your body, your mind and your soul in the end you go out on the pitch and think of nothing else than making the basket. "

A background certainly unexpected and not trivial, a bit like the character of J.R. Smith, a basketball player who among other things on a contractual level, after winning the ring with the Lakers, has no longer found a job in the NBA.

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