101 Facts About JR Smith

1. JR Smith was seen in the crowd at the Heat-Knicks game.

2. JR Smith made the first basket of the game, but the Knicks shot just 38 percent against one of the league's best defensive teams.

3. JR Smith showcased his passing game with a pair of nice dishes off penetration that resulted in 3-pointers for Knicks rookie Kevin Knox and Noah Vonleh.

4. JR Smith could be a harder sell, considering his $14.7 million contract for this season.

5. JR Smith was required to pay restoration fees and fines.

6. JR Smith is son of Ida and Earl JR Smith, and has three brothers and two sisters.

7. JR Smith made a franchise playoff-record 65 3-pointers, which were the fourth-most threes made by any NBA player in a single postseason.

8. JR Smith ranked seventh in the league in 3-pointers made, setting a franchise single-season record.

9. JR Smith helped the Cavaliers sweep the Hawks to reach the NBA Finals, where they lost to the Golden State Warriors in six games.

10. JR Smith was named the NBA Sixth Man of the Year, becoming just the third player in franchise history to win the award, joining Anthony Mason and John Starks.

11. JR Smith appeared in 35 games for the Knicks to finish the regular season, before appearing in all five of the Knicks' postseason games.

12. JR Smith had four 50+ point games during the season.

13. JR Smith played two seasons of basketball for Lakewood before transferring to Saint Benedict's Preparatory School in 2002.

14. JR Smith tended to lie and vaingloriously recount his exploits, yet modern scholarship has verified portions of the information presented.

15. JR Smith met Pochantas again after she traveled to England in 1616 with husband John Rolfe and son Thomas.

16. JR Smith took some heat for showing up to an offseason event with blond hair, then admitted coach Mike Woodson made him dye it back.

17. JR Smith stands to lose $252,000 in salary during the suspension.

18. JR Smith is coming off his career season in which he scored 18.1 points per game and won the Sixth Man Award, but his off-the-court baggage prevented him from getting a whopping offer in free agency.

19. JR Smith signed a three-year, $18 million free-agent contract this offseason—with an opt-out after Year 2.

20. JR Smith will be suspended by the NBA for five games for violating the league's Anti-Drug Program, the league announced Friday.

21. JR Smith had the printing press that made the newspaper destroyed, and had the city declare martial law.

22. JR Smith killed his master and then wandered through eastern Europe and sailed briefly to Morocco before returning to England in 1604.

23. JR Smith had fought as a mercenary in many European armies before he signed on to the Virginia Company's project at Jamestown which became the first permanent English settlement in America.

24. JR Smith declared that he would be one of the instruments in fulfilling Nebuchadnezzar's statue vision in the Book of Daniel: that secular government would be destroyed without "sword or gun", and would be replaced with a "theodemocratic" Kingdom of God.

25. JR Smith favored a strong central bank and high tariffs to protect American business and agriculture.

26. JR Smith considered the US Constitution, and especially the Bill of Rights, to be inspired by God and "the [Latter Day] Saints' best and perhaps only defense.

27. Over the next several years, JR Smith worked to produce what he reported was a translation of one of these rolls, which was published in 1842 as the Book of Abraham.

28. JR Smith said that in June 1830, he received a "revelation of Moses" in which Moses saw "the world and the ends thereof" and asked God questions about the purpose of creation and man's relationship to God.

29. JR Smith never said how he produced the Book of Mormon, saying only that he translated by the power of God and implying that he had transcribed the words.

30. JR Smith claimed that his first recorded revelation was a rebuke from God for having let Martin Harris lose 116 pages of Book of Mormon manuscript, chastising him for "fearing man more than God".

31. JR Smith said the Council had authority to decide which national or state laws Mormons should obey.

32. JR Smith was then released on a writ of habeas corpus from the Nauvoo municipal court.

33. JR Smith introduced baptism for the dead in 1840, and in 1841, construction began on the Nauvoo Temple as a place for recovering lost ancient knowledge.

34. JR Smith ended the communitarian experiment and changed the name of the church to the "Church of Latter Day Saints", before leading a small paramilitary expedition called Zion's Camp, to aid the Missouri Mormons.

35. JR Smith advised them to bear the violence patiently until after they were attacked multiple times, after which they could fight back.

36. JR Smith said that the angel returned the plates to him in September 1828.

37. JR Smith made his last visit to the hill on September 22, 1827, taking Emma with him.

38. JR Smith suffered a crippling bone infection when he was seven and used crutches for three years.

39. JR Smith said he experienced a series of visions, including one in which he saw "two personages" and others in which an angel directed him to a buried book of golden plates inscribed with a Judeo-Christian history of an ancient American civilization.

40. JR Smith is questionable for Wednesday's game against the Nets due to a sprained right wrist.

41. JR Smith fled Kirtland for Far West, Missouri, in 1838, but opposition arose once more.

42. JR Smith found the plates buried in a stone box not far from his father's farm.

43. JR Smith is a fan of chess and video games, and is known to take his mother on vacation every year, usually to the Canyon Ranch spa in Tucson, Arizona.

44. In 2007 JR Smith starred in I Am Legend, a remake of the Charlton Heston film Omega Man, in which he battled bloodthirsty vampires.

45. JR Smith fought aliens again in his next blockbuster, the comic sci-fi action film, Men in Black.

46. JR Smith said, "My wife needs me, my daughter needs me.

47. JR Smith is supposedly a huge fan of the Swedish well-known melodic heavy metal band Soilwork.

48. JR Smith was nearly bankrupt in 1990, when the NBC television network signed him to a contract and built a sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, around him.

49. JR Smith has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards, and has won four Grammy Awards.

50. In 2015, JR Smith portrayed a con artist in the thriller Focus and the doctor who discovered the epidemic of chronic traumatic encephalopathy among NFL players in Concussion.

51. In 2007, JR Smith starred in the post-apocalyptic science fiction I Am Legend.

52. In 2004, JR Smith starred in the science fiction action I, Robot.

53. In 2001 JR Smith portrayed heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali in the biopic Ali.

54. In 1999, JR Smith turned down the role of Neo in The Matrix in favor of Wild Wild West.

55. In 1998, JR Smith starred with Gene Hackman in the conspiracy-thriller Enemy of the State.

56. In the late 1980s, JR Smith achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince.

57. JR Smith was born on September 25, 1968 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

58. JR Smith says that everything started going uphill after he married Jewel.

59. JR Smith drives to the bucket, loses his handle, but is able to rise up and knock it in.

60. JR Smith says the Cavaliers "obviously know" that he would like to be traded after he was removed from the starting lineup and told he wouldn't be guaranteed playing time.

61. JR Smith is not with the Cavaliers as the team tries to accommodate his request for a trade.

62. JR Smith has a history of flagrant fouls against the Celtics that dates back to April 2013, when the NBA suspended him one game for elbowing guard Jason Terry in the face, WEEI reports.

63. JR Smith admitted to driving an SUV through a stop sign and colliding with a car in Millstone Township, about 20 miles east of Trenton, in June 2007, according to ESPN.

64. In 2009, JR Smith was sentenced to 90 days in jail for causing a car accident that killed his friend, although he was only ended up serving 30.

65. JR Smith played a key role in their championship, scoring eight points in the third quarter of Game 7 to get the Cavaliers back in the game.

66. JR Smith would fit that role and would give the Bucks more perimeter shooting.

67. JR Smith has played in 11 game this season with the Cavaliers, averaging 6.7 points, 1.9 assists, and 1.6 rebounds.

68. JR Smith "will no longer play or attend the Cavs' games".

69. JR Smith have agreed to part ways, Joe Vardon of The Athletic reports.

70. JR Smith will continue to get paid the $14.7 million he is due this season away from the team.

71. JR Smith got into some problems with the Cavs earlier this year when he threw soup at an assistant coach.

72. JR Smith would like to be traded away from Cleveland, as this move shows, but he isn't interested in negotiating a buyout in order to expedite his own exit.

73. JR Smith leaves the Cavaliers, working with team on a trade, per report.

74. JR Smith is officially listed as questionable and was a limited participant in practice all week, but is reportedly expected to.

75. JR Smith is listed as questionable for Thursday's game against the Redskins, Jon Machota of The Dallas Morning News reports.

76. JR Smith has been in the NBA since 2004 and has played with a more than a few teams, including the Cavaliers, the Denver Nuggets, and the New York Knicks.

77. JR Smith tweaked his wrist in the last few days and could sit out on Wednesday.

78. JR Smith will leave Cavaliers until team can find a trading partner.

79. JR Smith is currently staying away from the team as the Cavaliers look for a suitor.

80. JR Smith currently earns $14.7 million and is due $15.6 million next year of which a third is guaranteed.

81. JR Smith has asked to be traded twice, but he's still here in part because he.

82. JR Smith could be a good pick up for Chicago, whereas the Cavaliers would free up cap space by releasing Lopez in the summer.

83. JR Smith was limited to just six minutes during Cleveland's loss to the Detroit Pistons on Monday night.

84. JR Smith has reportedly left the Cleveland Cavaliers as both sides attempt to get a trade done.

85. JR Smith was VERY important to all the winning the Cavs did over the past 5 years.

86. JR Smith is the only person on the court who taught the Cavs were leading and dribbled the ball away.

87. JR Smith remained a controversial figure during his playing career with a considerable number of driving violations which included an accident claiming the life of one passenger, Andre Bell.

88. JR Smith will part ways as the team figures out the best route to part ways with the 15-year NBA veteran.

89. JR Smith is earning $14.7 million this season, and $3.8 million of his $15.6 million salary for next season is guaranteed.

90. In the wake of JR Smith saying the Cleveland Cavaliers are tanking, he is not with the team as it works on a trade, sources told ESPN's Brian Windhorst Tuesday.

91. JR Smith is in his 15th season and making $14.7 million but has been reluctant to accept a buyout.

92. JR Smith is playing 20 minutes and averaging a career-low 6.7 points per game.

93. JR Smith came to the Cavaliers in a trade from the New York Knicks in 2015.

94. JR Smith opted to stay at that time and vowed to be a positive influence.

95. JR Smith came to the Cavaliers in a trade from the Knicks in 2015.

96. JR Smith has been openly pushing for the Cleveland Cavaliers to give him an opportunity to play elsewhere, and the team has confirmed that they will do just that.

97. JR Smith is owed $14 million this season and $15 million next, so he will be extremely difficult to trade.

98. At that time, JR Smith promised he would be a positive influence.

99. On the surface, JR Smith appeared to be the perfect redemption story for Clevelanders to clutch.

100. JR Smith will stay away from the team, working out on his own where he can no longer bring morale down.

101. In May 2012, JR Smith was arrested in Miami Beach, Florida for failing to appear in court in 2011 after he was cited for operating a motor-scooter with no valid license.