Back For Game 5, J.R. Smith Counting On Celtics' Overdue Elimination
Had Smith been available for Game 4, perhaps this series would already be over. "It would've been," he said Tuesday. "I would've been playing golf today."
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Had Smith been available for Game 4, perhaps this series would already be over. "It would've been," he said Tuesday. "I would've been playing golf today."
The 34-year-old journeyman becomes a free agent on July 1 — meaning that he will first have to sign with an NBA team and wait until next season to see if teammates, coaches, opponents and fans will treat him any differently.
Kidd received 91 first-place votes from league players and 2,474 total points Tuesday to claim the Joe Dumars Trophy in his first season in New York. He won the award last season, his final one in Dallas.
Collins is ready for his journey and has taken the important first step. It's important for him. It's important for sports. It's important for humanity.
Many of us weren't as accepting 25 years ago. It's called progress. Can we stop calling it revolutionary, and just evolutionary?
Jason Collins said he has gotten "incredible" support since coming out as the first openly gay player in one of the four major U.S. pro sports leagues, and hopes he may have made the path easier for others to follow.
Last summer, Collins considered joining an old Stanford college roommate, U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, at Boston's gay pride parade. The NBA veteran eventually decided he shouldn't. But he will in 2013.
Clinton said that Collins' announcement on Monday is an "important moment" for professional sports and the history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
"I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport," Collins wrote in Sports Illustrated. "But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation."
The Knicks will try to end their best-of-seven series Wednesday night in front of New York's fans -- and Anthony is confident his team can get it done.
Knicks came back from down 20 to force overtime. It wasn't enough as the Celtics took Game 4 as the series heads back to MSG.
J.R. Smith, the league's Sixth Man of the Year, will be forced to sit out when the Knicks try to complete a four-game sweep Sunday.
The Knicks could be without sixth man J.R. Smith against the Celtics in Game 4 if the league decides to suspend him.
Carmelo Anthony scored 26 points and the New York Knicks moved to the brink of their first playoff series victory in 13 years.
