J.R SMITH WAS playing a video game one night last August, enjoying the downtime of the offseason when the texts started coming in.
The first he ignored, but they wouldn't stop, his phone buzzed incessantly.
"I'm like what the hell is going on?" Smith said.
So he paused his game and picked up the phone, mildly annoyed. On the top line he saw "LeBron James plus 10" recipients. It was the Cleveland Cavaliers' players-only group text, and James had put a call out. Workouts in Miami in two weeks, be there.