Kenny Smith (born March 8, 1965) is a professional retired basketball player playing in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played in the NBA from 1987 to 1997 as a member of the Sacramento Kings, the Atlanta Hawks, the Houston Rockets, the Detroit Pistons, the Orlando Magic, and the Denver Nuggets. Nicknamed "Jet", Smith is an All-American at the University of North Carolina and a two-time NBA Champion with Houston Rockets. Smith is currently a basketball analyst, and has won several Emmys for his work in Inside the NBA on TNT. He also worked as an analyst for CBS/Turner during the NCAA Men's Division Basketball Tournament.
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Smith was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York and raised in LeFrak City. He played some of the earliest basketball at Riverside Church in New York. Smith attended Archbishop Molloy High School, where he was trained by Jack Curran, the most winning high school coach in New York City and the history of New York State. Smith was named McDonald All-American in 1983, then played basketball at the University of North Carolina for Dean Smith. Smith credits former South Carolina star State Bobby Lewis with his development as a shooter and ballhandler. Lewis averaged 30.9 points per game and was the First Team Division II All-American as a senior at South Carolina State. He later developed the Bobby Lewis Basketball Skills Development Program, a training regimen he presented at basketball camps across the country. Smith attended several of his lectures while in high school, and continued to use Lewis practice throughout his career in basketball, and taught them in his own basketball camp. From Lewis, Smith said, "He's the best lecturer he's ever had, he has the best influence in my regimen of exercise without question."
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College career
North Carolina Tar Heels
Kenny Smith joined Michael Jordan as a freshman on the North Carolina team who was the # 1 Pre-season and finished the season with the # 1 ranking with a 28-3 record. Smith averaged 9.1 points and 5.0 assists per game, and Tar Heels lost to Indiana University in the 1984 NCAA Regional Tournament 1984. He led North Carolina to the Elite Eight in 1985, losing to Villanova Wildcats National Champion. Smith named the All-American Consensus (Team 1) as a senior in 1987, averaging 16.9 points, 6.1 assists per game while helping North Carolina to return to the Eight Eight. Playing in a game featuring eleven future NBA players, Smith leads the Tar Heels with 25 points and 7 assists but they lose to Syracuse University, 79-75.
During his career in North Carolina, Smith averaged 12.9 points and 6.0 assists per game, while shooting 0.512 from the field, and 0.823 from the free throw line. In 1986-1987, the first season of the NCAA added three field goals, Smith shot.408. In 2016, he ranks second in school history with total assists (768), a total of four steals (195), and fifth in assists per game. Smith helped North Carolina to a 115-22 record from the 1983-84 to 1986-87 seasons, including two Eight (1985 and 1987) Elite appearances and the Sweet Sixteen appearance in 1986. They won the Conference of Atlantic Coast (ACC) regular season conference championship in the year 1984 and 1987, and tied for first in 1985. North Carolina never finished lower than 8 in a national poll over Smith's four-year school.
International career
Smith represented the United States in the FIBA ​​World Championship 1986, in a team that included players such as David Robinson, Muggsy Bogues and Steve Kerr. He was second on the team in scoring behind Charles Smith with 14.7 points per game. Smith scored 23 points to lead the US to a 87-85 victory and a Gold Medal over a Soviet team featuring Arvydas Sabonis.
NBA playing career
Initial career
Smith was voted 6'3 "170 lb point guard by the Sacramento Kings with the sixth pick of the 1987 NBA draft. He was appointed to the NBA All-Rookie Team (First Team) after averaging 13.8 points and 7.1 assists per game for Kings, Smith started his NBA career playing for Hall of Famer Bill Russell, who became head coach for Kings until he was sacked 58 matches into the '87 -88 season. Smith was traded to the Atlanta Hawks in mid 1989-90 Season, where he was reserve player for the first time in his career, averaging 7.7 points per game while only starting five of his thirty games he played for the Hawks.
Houston Rockets
After the 1989-90 season, Smith traded to the Houston Rockets, where he will spend the next six seasons. In 1990-91 Smith averaged 17.7 points per game while leading the Rockets in assists per game (7.1) and free throw percentage (0.844). He helped the Rockets to a 52-30 record, the best regular season in franchise history at the time. They were swept by the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the playoffs. Smith finished 17th in a vote for the NBA Most Valuable Player Award, right in front of teammate Hakeem Olajuwon.
Head coach Don Chaney was sacked after posting a record of only 26-26 in the 1991-92 season. He was replaced by former Rocket player Rudy Tomjanovich, who went 16-14 to seal the season, missing the playoffs by one game. The Rockets then went 55-27 in 1992-93, losing to the Seattle SuperSonics in the second round of the playoffs in seven games. Smith helped to force seven games against Seattle by scoring 30 points, shooting 4-6 from three distance points, in a Game 6 win for Houston. The Rockets won back-to-back championships in 1993-94 and 1994-95. From the 1992-93 to 1994-95 season, Kenny Smith averaged 11.7 points and 4.5 assists per game, with a three-point 0.425 percentage. In 57 playoffs during the same period, Smith had an almost identical average of 11.6 points and 4.3 assists, shooting 0.456 from three points apart. In the first match of the 1995 Final against Orlando Magic, Smith collected 23 points, 9 assists and made seven three-pointers, including a shake shot that sent the game into extra-time. The Rockets won the 120-118 game, and then swept the Magic in four games.
Smith gradually lost playing time for Sam Cassell, but he continued to be the starting point for the Rockets' through the 1995-96 season. Although Smith's points, assists, steals, and minutes per game dropped for a fifth consecutive season, he was still prolific in 1995-96. He averaged 8.5 points and 3.6 assists per game, and shot 0.382 from three points and 0.821 from the free-throw line. The Rockets finished fifth in the NBA Western Conference with a 48-34 record, disappointing fourth-seeded Los Angeles Lakers in the first round before being swept in the second round by the second finalist Seattle SuperSonics. In the four-game series against the Lakers, Smith has 17 points, 6 assists and 4-4 from three distance points to help the Rockets win a superior series 102-94. The win against the Lakers also marked the NBA's last game for Magic Johnson, who returned to the NBA that season after a five-year absence.
Last year
The Rockets released Smith after the 1995-96 season, and he signed with the Detroit Pistons. He played just nine games with the Pistons before he was released and signed by Orlando Magic, who released Smith after just six games. Smith then signed a contract with the Denver Nuggets, where he will stay for the rest of the season. Smith played little for the playoff-bound Pistons and Magic, but got a meaningful last play time of his career with the Nuggets, the team that won only 21 games that season. Smith averaged 7.9 points and 3.1 assists while playing just under twenty minutes per game. Overall, Smith averaged 6.3 points and 2.4 assists per game, the lowest average of his career, while his three-point percentage of 0.437 (59/135) was the second highest in his career, and the fourth season in which he bolted better. from 40 percent on three points.
In his professional career, Smith scored 9397 points (12.8 avg.), Recorded 4,073 assists (5.5 avg) while shooting 0.480 from the field, 0.399 from three points, and 0.829 from the free throw line. He finished in the top ten NBAs in three percentage points three times (1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95), and the top ten were in the percentage of free throws twice (1992-93 and 1993-94). In the 1988-89 season Smith was fifth in the league in minutes played, seventh in minutes per game, and tenth in total assists. Career Smith three percentage points 0.399 still ranks 42th in NBA history. Smith holds the Denver Nuggets franchise record for a career of three percentage points (.425), and he continues to rank among all-time leaders in several categories for the Sacramento Kings and Houston Rockets.
NBA career statistics
Regular season
Playoffs
Broadcasting career
Smith joined Turner Sports in 1998, working as a studio analyst to end the NBA's regular season and playoffs. Smith worked with Ernie Johnson Jr., Charles Barkley, and Shaquille O'Neal on the Inside the NBA, the winner of the Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Studio Show. Smith covered the basketball for Goodwill Games 2001, and he sometimes appeared on NBA TV as an analyst. Smith commented for the MSG Networks broadcast of the New York Knicks game from 2005-08, and worked as an analyst for CBS/Turner during the NCAA Men's Division Basketball Tournament.
During the 2010 NBA All-Star Weekend, Smith was a member of the Texas team that won the Star Shooting Competition.
While at Scoop B Radio Podcast in 2017, Smith told Brandon Scoop B Robinson that the 1994 Houston Rockets would beat Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls when they faced each other in the NBA Finals.
Personal life
Smith has four children - Kayla Brianna, Kenneth Jr (K.J.), Malloy Adrian, and London Olivia and Monique's stepdaughter.
Her first marriage to Dawn Reavis resulted in two children. Princess Kayla is an R & amp; B and son K.J. is a basketball player at the University of North Carolina, his father's alma mater.
After his divorce with Reavis, Smith met with British model Gwendolyn Osborne in 2004 at a charity event. They married on September 8, 2006. They had two children together, a son of Malloy in 2008 and a London princess in 2012. Smith is also stepfather to Osborne's daughter, Monique, from a previous marriage. Osborne is a former model at The Price Is Right .
References
External links
- KennyTheJetSmith.com
- Career statistics and player information from Basketball-Reference.com
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