On Friday it was announced that Knicks guard J.R. Smith has been fined $25,000 for hostile and vulgar comments on twitter towards Pistons guard Brandon Jennings. On Wednesday Jennings tweeted the following "Wait wait wait JR smith brother is in the NBA but @PoohJeter & @BBROWNLAU isn't. Call me hater but not Rollin!!!" This prompted Smith to reply by tweeting "No respect for these lil kids who pop at the mouth on twitter an then want to delete they tweets! #GrowUp! #ManUp! @TheOnlyCSmith0 #Facts" and also apparently threatning to send his "street homies" on Jennings. J.R. Smith has since said that he was not threatning Jennings he was simply defending his brother. This is not the first time that Smith has gotten in trouble on twitter. Smith is considering taking a hiatus from twitter because he always seems to get in trouble on it.
I dont find it necessary for Smith to delete his twitter. I think that if Smith wants to he can easily control himself on social media. It is up to J.R. to make the right choices. He is a grown man and has to learn to make the decisions that are best for him and to stop making these poor choices that continue to have a ripple effect on his career. If Smith is unable to do this eventually no team in the NBA will want to deal with him and he will deeply regret his poor choices in the past. I think that Smith can change but it is entirely up to him.
http://espn.go.com/new-york/nba/story/_/id/9981772/jr-smith-new-york-knicks-fined-25000-nba-hostile-tweets
first of, Jennings made a dumb choice of making fun of J.R. Smith's brother. what did J.R. Smith even do to him? ha, no wonder he got traded to Detroit! also, even though J.R. Smith got fined for his tweet on Jennings, i think that he did the right thing to defend his brother because picking on somebody isn't really the right thing to do.
ReplyDeleteReally good points. Smith is obviously a very effective player (especially as a sixth man who can come up and put up points fast)...but you are totally right, poor choices for stupidity will hurt this guy's career! That being said, social media has definitely made some players into more popular stars and marketed them better.
ReplyDeleteGood choice of post. Keep up the hard work! You are class MVP of blogs right now - easy 5% of final bro.
-Mr. L