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At this point he is just toxic to the team... When your play sucked like near the bottom for his position the last couple of years... Its hard to justify his comments, he just plain sucked whenthe cavs was a contender and even now that the team is dumpster fire... He just can't expect to play heavy minutes when he is not producing...
 
When you're given carte blanche and still can't score 10ppg as a starter your career is over. Especially when you can't play defense anymore, which I swear he was known for at one point.
 
rastamon87 said:
At this point he is just toxic to the team... When your play sucked like near the bottom for his position the last couple of years... Its hard to justify his comments, he just plain sucked whenthe cavs was a contender and even now that the team is dumpster fire... He just can't expect to play heavy minutes when he is not producing...
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Huge addition by subtraction. Get his toxic shit out of the locker room. Away from the youngsters Deal him later for a happy meal
 
You know, at the time Shump was the main piece in the NY trade and JR was the throw in. My god that ended up being completely backwards.

JR Smith gave us one of the craziest gunners I've ever seen. No shot was too ridiculous for this man. At times, the big 3 wouldn't even need to do anything, because JR would bury unsuspecting teams with his avalanche of 3s. It's been a joy to watch him at his peak and depressing to watch his decline. I'll still have the memories of him laying pipe and knocking down fadeaway corner threes through contact with less than 2 seconds on the shot clock.

There goes that shirtless man
 
So we are down to two guys left from the parade. Man, its only been 2.5 years. That has to be the fastest a championship team has been dismantled. Back in the day championship teams stayed together for 10 years making runs at it. I sure miss that.
 

I think this is the rotation where JR said to himself, "You know what? maybe I should seat this one out. Better yet, let's make it the whole year. Where's Jason Lloyd?"
 
It's sad that a lot of people probably won't remember just how good he was for us. Even I had forgotten briefly throughout all this drama. But damn looking back he was integral to our team and championship.

Gonna miss peak and committed JR, but I guess he has been gone a while now anyway.
 
I will remember good times, forget bad times ( finals game 1 2018). Good times outweigh bad times, that one championship might be only one we have for like 20 - 40 years to come.
thank you jr
 
Boo this man.

He's been downright awful since signing his deal. Legit one of the 10 worst players in a rotation last year on any team. He threw soup at a coach. He's asking out of his contract early. He totally and completely fucked up LeBron's game 1.

I won't have many fond memories of this man.
 
We don’t win game 7 without his 3rd quarter burst. So I will always have that memory.

But he couldn’t be handling this worse given his recent body of work.

Isn’t this how JR has broken up with every team he’s been on? Every fan base happy to see him go...
 
SuperSurge said:
We don’t win game 7 without his 3rd quarter burst. So I will always have that memory.

But he couldn’t be handling this worse given his recent body of work.

Isn’t this how JR has broken up with every team he’s been on? Every fan base happy to see him go...
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His daughter summed up JR's time on that championship team perfectly:

"I'm just proud of him because he made the Championship without getting kicked off the team." Same

I can't see CP3 playing with JR by the way, the little guy might fight him on the court once JR's enters a trance only JR can and loses track of everything.

Here's a gif of CP3 being patient with a mentally challenged player:

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FrontPageNews said:
No chance someone trades for him. He’ll sit for a year and get bought out next year.
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JR is very valuable in trade after the season.

Since he was signed under the old CBA, the full value of his contract can be traded after the Finals and before the next league years starts. Any contracts signed under the new CBA are only worth the guaranteed value of their NEXT season after the trade deadline.

Smith is only guaranteed $3.5M next year, so there's no need to buy him out.

So the Cavs have two options:

1. Wait and cut him before the total salary guarantees and only have $3.5M on the cap next year.

2. Trade him to a team that wants salary relief next year, so something like JR Smith for Allen Crabbe. That would give the Nets $15M more to spend in free agency. But if you're the Cavs you don't do this favor for cheap - you get a first round pick back. Could do the same thing with the Knicks by taking Lee and Thomas off their hands and giving them $17M more to spend next year on free agents.

The Cavs can take back $19.5M in salary in any trade sending Smith out. So they can save teams $16.5M+ next year in any Smith trade AND they can do it so the other team doesn't have to pay Smith at all outside of the $3.5M guarantee for next season by trading after the Finals. A team would get him, release him, and free up cap space for making runs at Leonard, Durant, Thompson, Kyrie, Butler, etc.

I expect there will competition for teams to clear extra space to try to attract free agents by the time summer arrives.
 
JayDD1972 said:
So we are down to two guys left from the parade. Man, its only been 2.5 years. That has to be the fastest a championship team has been dismantled. Back in the day championship teams stayed together for 10 years making runs at it. I sure miss that.
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It's a page from Dombrowski's book.
 
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