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Which doesn't mean anything for anybody else, if nothing comes of it.
So because you talk and throw up gang signs you don't feel anything? Long reach there, skipper.
Don't put words in my mouth. I never suggested he changed as a person - few people's personalities change much after their early 20s. I suggested that he is human, and as long as he is not incapable of feelings he would feel Bell's death for the rest of his life.
Which doesn't mean anything for anybody else, if nothing comes of it.
Who said it did? All of my comments on that were in reference to Culburn's snide comment that he probably killed his friend then thought no more about it, which I think is utter horse .
i bet he's changed the way he drives though, if he drives at all.
My sentiments exactly. Smith just doesn't get it.
Did you read the whole thread? I don't disagree with anything you've said, and I certainly don't "let him off the hook" for anything, as I've repeatedly stated. I just don't think he can be called a "killer" or "murderer", and I think it's absurd to suggest that he'll never think about what he did in contributing to the death of a childhood friend (unless he is actually incapable of feeling).
And I agree, in a case like this the minimum license suspension should be 10 years, and life should be an option.
Nuggets’ Smith returns from suspension
Suspended for the season’s first seven games, Denver Nuggets guard J.R. Smith returned Tuesday with a new outlook and a different name.
He wants to go by his given name, Earl Smith III.
Smith says there are “a lot of personal reasons” that “I can’t really explain at this time” for the switch. He went with J.R. because he was often called “Junior,” but now he’s going back to his given name as part of an effort to fix an image that’s taken some hits over the years because of a poor driving record that resulted in the suspension.
Smith was expected to come off the bench against the Chicago Bulls in his first appearance after a tumultuous offseason.
Denver’s Kenyon Martin returned after missing a game with a bruised left fibula.
Smith Knows His Basketball Iden y: He's An Important Part Of Nuggets' Team
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He began the day as J.R. Smith, wayward basketball player who had just finished a seven-game league suspension. He then decided to revert to his original name, Earl Smith III, as a way of giving himself a fresh start. But after a slew of e-mails, texts and calls, Earl Smith III became J.R. Smith again. "I ain't going to switch," Smith said. "It's back to J.R."
Amid the changing nomenclature, Smith actually went out and played his first game of the season for the Nuggets, a thrilling 90-89 win over the Bulls here at the United Center. It wasnt exactly a sterling performance for Smith, who shot 1-for-9 and watched his man, Brad Miller, sink what originally was a game-winning jumper for Chicago, but which was later wiped out on review.
But for Nuggets coach George Karl, Smith's debut was a beauty. "I thought J.R. had a pretty damned good game for being 1-for-9," Karl said. "Offensively, with his athleticism, his penetration, that is how our offense works best."
Smith's absence was, in fact, an overlooked aspect of Denver's 5-2 start. Last spring, after the Nuggets wrapped up their appearance in the West finals, Smith was sentenced to 30 days in Monmouth (N.J.) County Jail after pleading guilty to a reckless driving charge from 2007, when he ran a stop sign and his SUV collided with another car. His longtime friend, Andre Bell, was injured in the accident and later died. During his sentencing, Smith said he had expressed remorse to Bell's mother, telling the court, "I told her I wish the shoe was on the other foot."
He wound up serving 24 days, then was suspended by the league, a little professional salt rubbed into a very personal wound. "It was hard," Smith said. "But I learned a lot. I have had to grow up a lot through all of this."
Indeed, he has. Smith was once run out of New Orleans and dumped from Chicago for nothing, despite his obvious talent. He seemed to get himself together last season, becoming a reliable sixth man for the Nuggets. His jail sentence behind him, that's what he wants to focus on now: just playing his role for one of the better teams in the league.
"Playing tonight, it felt great," Smith said. "My shots were not falling. But that's OK. I will just have to go back to the lab."
The lab is not such a bad place. Smith would know.
"His longtime friend, Andre Bell, was injured in the accident and later died."
Can't beat that for parsin' words, eh?
tee, hee.
Indeed if Smith was suspended by the league for an accident, Bryant should have been given even some punishent too.
But we all know Stern won't do a damn thing to the lakers and especially their coddled poster boy.
For what? She took the snot & the money.
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