The vast majority of NBA players have retired quietly, saying goodbye on social media at most. Some don't even have news, such as the familiar Deron Williams. But the way JR-Smith announced his retirement made him worthy of JR.
Jr.-Smith recently announced that he will be enrolled in the humanities at North Carolina A&M State University, and JR has joined the university's golf team and has applied for NCAA qualifications.
This news also officially announced JR's retirement from the NBA, ending his 16-year career. Jr skipped college 16 years ago and went straight to the NBA, having had a very successful NBA experience, and now he has decided to make up for the regret of not going to college that year.
JR may be one of the most interesting players in NBA history, and the attributes of angels and devils make fans love and hate him, and the root cause of this phenomenon may be a lack of adequate education.
Jr. scored five three-pointers at the McDonald's All-American High School Star Game, scoring a game-high 25 points and sharing the MVP with Howard. In the limelight, he unexpectedly turned down an invitation from North Carolina and chose to go directly to the NBA.
He was drafted by the Hornets with the 18th pick in the first round, when the Hornets' coach was Byron Scott, a coach who notoriously disliked young players. The unruly JR soon had a great conflict with the coaching staff, to the point where he had to go one.
At the end of the 05-06 season, JR was sent to the Nuggets. After two years of NBA career, JR has not learned to grow, and he still believes that the biggest reason why his talent has not been played is that the coach does not reuse him.
The Nuggets' coach at the time was George Carr, a famous old diehard who had dealt with basketball all his life. The relationship between JR and Carl is still strained, and JR always shoots in the worst situations, and then is replaced by Carl angrily.
At that time, the situation was that when the hand felt good, JR would play on the field for a while, and when the hand feeling was bad and he did not listen to the command, JR could not get on the field, so the nickname of JR nerve knife began to circulate.
In addition, the feel is not the only factor that determines whether JR can play, his defense has not been good after entering the league, in large part because of his own attitude, so it is strange that the coach can like him.
Of course, JR's stinging attribute has never been eliminated, and in 2006 he participated in the infamous Madison Garden Brawl, and in 2007 he threw champagne at a girl at a nightclub and tore the girl's clothes.
Jr's explanation afterwards was: "He drank too much and couldn't remember what happened." The girl took him to court, and the Nuggets couldn't stand the team's three-game ban on JR.
In 2006, he was arrested for driving without a license, and in 2007, he was sentenced to 30 days in prison for reckless driving, and there were even more such things as fighting and smoking drugs.
In the Knicks career, JR probably finally accepted his role as the sixth man, averaging 18.1 points per game in the 12-13 season to win the best sixth man of the year, but the JR of the Knicks career became more puzzling.
He was fined for untying his opponent's shoelaces, for throwing water on others, and had missed a defender for chatting with the opposing bench player on the court, forgetting the score more than once on the court, which also laid the groundwork for the next 18 years.
It wasn't until his daughter was born prematurely and met LeBron that JR-Smith truly matured. In the Cavaliers he was the first knife guard, the most reliable three-point shooting point, and also won the championship in 16 years.
"I've messed up a lot of things during my career, and I mean, I can't hold on to them, I have to look ahead." So JR followed LeBron to the championship again in 20 years after the "stupidest moment in history" in the 18-year finals.
To this day, when you search for JR-Smith highlights, the front row often appears with "JR-Smith's Funniest Moments" and "JR-Smith's Stupid Moments."
These collections include the look of JR Smith squinting in confusion at the '18 Finals, and the images of him marching shirtless after winning the championship in 2016, all of which are part of JR Smith's career.
Now he has decided to let go of these pasts and embark on a new journey. Once he was a jerk, now he's becoming a good guy.