J.R. Smith of the New York Knicks is known for never meeting a shot he wouldn’t take, so a move he made Friday night against the Brooklyn Nets was all sorts of noteworthy.
J.R. Smith of the New York Knicks got the ball in the frontcourt and did not shoot it.
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No, seriously. It’s nowhere near April Fool’s Day, for one, and there is also video evidence of the rarest of events.
(Wait for it.)
A J.R. Smith … p-p-p-p … pa-a-a-a-a … (it’s hard to even write it’s so incomprehensible) … passed the basketball.
Like to another guy on his own team and everything! It was incredible!
Smith left Brooklyn Nets guard Joe Johnson in the dust with a nifty spin move, got into the paint and made a luscious no-look dish to big man Cole Aldrich, who hit the reverse layup.
No word on whether or not the official statistician at the game had to be revived after witnessing such a shocking, awe-inspiring event.
OK, so this might be a bit unfair. Smith is averaging four assists per game through his first four games and averaged a career-high three assists a game in 2013-14.
But for a player of Smith’s reputation as a guy who seems to live by the motto “no shot too difficult or ill-advised to try,” it’s noteworthy when Smith makes a highlight for doing something other than shooting … or untying someone’s shoe.
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