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'Redefined: J.R. Smith': Growing Up in the Limelight, Getting a College Education, and Being in the NBA With J.R. Smith | Weekends With Wos

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The Importance of Basketball

"I get an opportunity to really help the administration but mold them for the men that they're about to be, and just like some of the guards look at me. Man, that's, that, I didn't even think about it that way," he said. "Basketball is something that, like, for me, just, I don't, I can't turn off, like, it's just something that's just part of me." He added: "Even if I picked up myself in that suit, like, literally wake up in the morning and thinking about moves ... Even though I'm not actually dribbling or even moving my hand, like, I'm thinking about my

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