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Theo Pinson: You were on two championship teams. Lakers and Cavs. Which team was better? We go head-to-head. Which team win? JR Smith: Cavs. Not even close. Pinson: Not close?! JR Smith: I say it's not close because like with Lakers we got an older Rajon Rondo, got obviously an older LeBron James, an older Anthony Davis… In Cleveland you had Kyrie Irving. First of all, K, nobody on that Lakers team checking him. Nobody. Kevin Love… (…) AD was definitely gonna cook, but T the way Double T (Tristan Thompson) play though, I don't know. I don't know. I can't say he was going to cook because Double T like he knows how to get off the f*cking skin though. Like he got that little dirty Canadian play.
JR Smith on Jaylen Brown: It's always been his team. Why we got to keep talking about it? Jaylen Brown is a leader. He guards everybody. (…) Always been his team though. Charlie Villanueva: I don't know about always. JR Smith: It's his team for the players. I'm pretty sure it's his team. For everybody else in the media, from the outside, it's Jayson Tatum's team. That's what they want it to look like. Theo Pinson: So, you're saying that they are putting the perception out there that it's JT's team, but internally it’s Jaylen Brown's team. JR Smith: Jaylen Brown is the leader of that team 100 percent. On and off the court.
Danny Green reacts to Grant Williams’ claim that LeBron James had a penthouse during the 2020 NBA Bubble: “I was in section 8, but they just stopped testing people. So, we called it section 8 cuz it was the hallways that smelled like tree. Sh*t was crazy. The stench was crazy. So, like our hallway, we had JR, you know, he was on the live going crazy. You know what I’m saying? But, you know, we had guys that, like to partake. Yeah. So, my hallway had it. But, you know Bron was right down the hall. We all on the same floor.”
Danny Green reacts to Grant Williams’ claim that LeBron James had a penthouse during the 2020 NBA Bubble:
— NBA Courtside (@NBA__Courtside) March 6, 2026
“I was in section 8, but they just stopped testing people. So, we called it section 8 cuz it was the hallways that smelled like tree. Sh*t was crazy. The stench was crazy.… pic.twitter.com/xIucNsgnx3
Knicks Videos: Jose Alvarado says it was "pretty cool" to see J.R. Smith courtside tonight: "The fanbase is obviously outrageous in here. It just gets you excited. Especially with guys like that, I've seen him as a child do a lot of crazy buckets in this building."
Jose Alvarado says it was "pretty cool" to see J.R. Smith courtside tonight:
— Knicks Videos (@sny_knicks) February 22, 2026
"The fanbase is obviously outrageous in here. It just gets you excited. Especially with guys like that, I've seen him as a child do a lot of crazy buckets in this building." pic.twitter.com/uj6HC5nFFL
Beyond JR Smith, Green picked on the scrappy guard, Matthew Dellavedova. It’s safe to say the Golden State Warriors star is not a fan of his hoops game. “I don’t think MJ had many guys that went through that. [Matthew Dellavedova] stinks,” Green added. “He won two games in the NBA Finals with him, [Dellavedova] stinks. I got a lot of respect for Delly… Stinks! Completely stinks. To win with guys like that… MJ wasn’t winning with Matthew Dellavedova.”
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Tyronn Lue: “Moving over six inches on the bench—that’s what people don’t understand. It’s tough. Especially when it happens midway through the season. We had just gone to the Finals. Lost Game 6 without Kevin Love and Kyrie. And now I’m being asked to replace Coach Blatt, who had done a hell of a job. If we didn’t make it back to the Finals—or at least to Game 7—I was going to be viewed as a failure. And that pressure? Man, it was real.” “I didn’t even know if I could do it. You’re taking over halfway through the year—no training camp, no time to implement your own system. You’ve got to stick to what’s already there. And on top of that, you’re coaching the best player in the world. That adds another level of pressure. It was tough.” “But I’ve got to give credit to K-Love, Kyrie, Bron, JR, Tristan—those guys told me: ‘We got your back 100%. Whatever you want to do, let’s do it.’ I told them, ‘I’m going to make some mistakes, but if we stick together, we’ll be fine.’ And they really had my back. All the way.”
Where J.R. Smith sees disaster, Metta World Peace sees opportunity. The two former Knicks had two very different reactions to hearing the stunning news that the team fired Tom Thibodeau on Tuesday Smith lamented the news, posting to his Instagram story saying, “I don’t know what the f–k going on … I don’t get it … Back-to-back 50-win seasons, first time since when? Bro, it’s so bad I [direct messaged] Stephen A. Smith just to ask him, ‘How much is [Thibodeau] owed? What is going on?’ C’mon man! Damn!”
LeBron James just took a walk down memory lane! The NBA star shared a photo of his former teammates, J.R. Smith and Kevin Love, on his Instagram Stories on Thursday, May 29. “My dogs right there!!” James, 40, wrote alongside an image of Smith, 39, and Love, 36, hugging it out. The heartfelt reunion on Thursday showed the former Cleveland Cavaliers players embracing one another. In a video shared by several outlets and the NBA, the two hold onto one another as they walk along the baseline, chatting in one another’s ear while on the court at Madison Square Garden after Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals between the New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers.
Clutchpoints: Former champs Kevin Love and JR Smith hug it out on the Madison Square Garden floor after Game 5 of the Knicks and Pacers 👏
Former champs Kevin Love and JR Smith hug it out on the Madison Square Garden floor after Game 5 of the Knicks and Pacers 👏
— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) May 30, 2025
(via @HoHighlights)pic.twitter.com/eN8h3T5Gha
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CARMELO ANTHONY: "Kyrie is one of the most skilled players in the history of basketball. He's like the basketball genius—the maestro when it comes to the game. Is he your most gifted teammate that you've played with?" JR SMITH: "It's weird having you ask me this question... I think he's the most gifted offensive player I've played with." CARMELO ANTHONY: "You say gifted—are we just talking about basketball?" JR SMITH: "Yeah, just basketball. What he brings to the game—his style of play, his size, his stature. What he's able to do with the basketball—the way he gets to his spots, the way he posts up bigs—that’s a skill set."
JR SMITH: It’s the best of the best that can’t do what Kyrie can do. We talk about getting to your spot a lot—every spot is his spot. He went to school, man." CARMELO ANHONY: "He went to the school?" JR SMITH: "Yeah, that mid-range school, footwork school, killer mentality school. We’ve been in environments together. His attention to detail—he’s relentless about mastering a spot. He’ll say, 'This is all I’m working on today. Don’t come work out with me unless you want to do this for three hours.'"
JR Smith when Knicks traded him to Cleveland: I ain't going to lie, bro. I cried. I was in Memphis. We were in Memphis. I was working out. We were getting ready for the game and I came back in the locker room and Steve Mills pulled me aside. He's like, ‘Yeah, man. We just traded you and Iman Shumpert to Cleveland.’ And I was just like, ‘Damn, where like, you know, I ain't want to say nothing of him or whatever.’ Because I already had my feelings about him and the situation that we were already in with the new group, new regime, whatever at that time.