One subject you won’t hear J.R. Smith talk about too much is his time with the New York Knicks.
Smith won the Sixth Man of the Year award for the 2012-2013 season. With averages of 18.1 points, 5.3 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.3 steals per game while playing 33.5 minutes per contest and incredible off-the-dribble play and shot-making in the clutch, it was perhaps the best season of his career. Especially considering that he was averaging career-highs in minutes, points and rebounds and field goal attempts (15.6).
It would seem like it was all coming together for Smith, who had shown tremendous potential as a scorer early in his career with Chris Paul and the New Orleans Hornets and in Denver with Carmelo Anthony.