Soup-throwing J.R. Smith: No game for you!

Cleveland Cavaliers shooting guard J.R. Smith was suspended for Thursday night’s loss to the Philadelphia 76ers for throwing soup at an assistant coach.

It’s been a long winter in the NBA. Clearly, cabin fever is starting to get the best of some players on certain playoff-bound teams. Stephen Curry shattered a glass table playing some indoor golf in his hotel room. J.R. Smith got suspended for a game for slinging a bowl of soup at an assistant coach.

Wait, what? Yes, that happened and both of these events happened in the same week! Smith had to ride pine the whole time during the Cleveland Cavaliers’ home loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. This is because he reportedly threw a bowl of soup at Cavaliers assistant coach Damon Jones.

Obviously, Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue wasn’t too thrilled about his two-guard straight-up slinging presumably hot and delicious soup at his fellow coach. Smith could have been suspended for anything on Thursday night for all we know. Now we know that it was for essentially a one-sided food fight.

No soup for you. How about no game for you! Yes, throwing a potentially scalding-hot delicious concoction of sorts at a coach isn’t a good idea. The bigger question is what type of soup it was. If if was some run of the mill chicken noodle, yes, that would be more understandable of a projectile than say lobster bisque.

Perhaps the soup must have been terrible enough for Smith to consider bowling it all over Jones? Then again, maybe he was that mad about something we’ll never know where he felt the need to prove a point by slinging the greatest lobster bisque of all time over his assistant. There is a clear soup hierarchy, but we’ll get there at another time or not.

Jones had been a former Cavaliers player and had coach on the team’s G-League affiliate in the Canton Charge before earning a role on Lue’s staff. Odds are when he took the job on Lue’s staff Jones didn’t think for a second that Smith was capable of wasting a delicious mostly liquid appetizer on him at any point. It’s about as ridiculous as the idea of the Soup Nazi in Seinfeld, except this actually happened.

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We have heard of NBA players throwing towels at coaches, but never soup…until now. If Smith can get a Campbell’s sponsorship out of it, then this soup-slinging incident was clearly worthwhile. But was Smith wearing a shirt when he was Uncle Rico-ing that soup at Jones?