But… he didn’t give it to Bron he just held it??? Does he not know we all saw it and there’s video lmao

Using the classic “I don’t get paid to think” excuse

My brother in christ you had a wide open passing lane to Lebron, you can’t make this excuse.

8 years to take some accountability and this is what he comes up with, never change JR

You know they way people talk about Lebron you would think he hates JR but he’s out there playing golf with him

Bro there’s cameras. You were trying to dribble the clock out.

I’m sorry but that’s a really dumb excuse. Just say you had a mental lapse

8 years later, and this fool still won’t own up to it. LMAO.

Why would you dribble all the way to near half court if you’re trying to get it to LeBron?

His excuse has varied so much over the years lmao just say you thought yall had the lead and tried to dribble it out. Nobody cares no more fr

Bro getting dumber with age

Had he actually passed the ball or at least attempted to pass the ball to LeBron in that moment, this would make sense. But that’s not what happened.

BBIQ so low that 8 years later he still doesnt know how he fucked up. You cannot make this up! 🤣

the fact that he won a ring with Cleveland but still identifies more with the Knicks and gets invited to Knicks games while is a public enemy in Cleveland is so sad.

Cleveland has to let 2018 go, it was more George Hills fault for missing the FT and the Cavs were going to lose that series in 5 anyways

“they don’t pay me enough”

Dude gets paid millions to play basketball We have people working to find a cure for cancer having to beg for funding.

The audacity lmao

This man is trying to win a NBA championship and talking about “It’s not my job to dribble”

Friendly reminder. They got swept. They weren’t even close to winning that series either way

“They don’t pay me enough for this shit” — athlete who got paid 45 millions USD for 3 seasons…

Why didn’t T Lue call timeout? Seemed pretty obvious 🤔

Way to dodge accountability

These guy’s egos are so huge and brains so fried they can’t even admit their mistake even when we all know it

Zero accountability lol

took him 8 years to come up with a shit excuse.

Fuck Ty lue! All the hate should be on Ty lue for that shit

I’m sure I also lie about stuff I do, not purposely but because in my mind thats what I did.

But JR, surely you have seen the play on video?

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‘Yeah I had a brainfart it happens I’m sorry’

All he has to fucking say

This man doesn’t think we have eyeballs lmaooo

Meh. The Warriors still would have won. It would just be 4-1 instead.

Guy making millions of dollars in one of the most important games of his life “I wasn’t getting paid enough”

Says the guy that was making $13m for that bone headed play

Most overlooked aspect of this whole debacle is that the Cavs had a timeout. Don’t understand why more isn’t made of that

It’s funny how yall act like he lost them the game. Score was tied and there’s no guarantee he makes the shot. Oh and then the went to OT. We conveniently like to leave out that part.

They do in fact pay you enough for that shit JR.

Some weight to what he’s saying. There’s always emphasis on how making it in the NBA requires you to learn a role and adhere to it. But when a role player doesn’t make a play that wasn’t his role in the first place, he gets crucified in the media. JR admits if he went for a play he would’ve suffered a similar outcome anyway. That’s modern NBA for you.

“See, I never did things just to do ‘em. Like, I got a little more sense than that. What am I gonna do? Just dribble out the clock in a tied game?

Yeah, I remember dribbling out the clock in a tied game.”

I just looked back at the clip and they definitely had a timeout left. An all time blunder but he’s right they could have called timeout.

why you always lyin

Stop justifying that mistake lol. Just accept it you did it and that was on you. Shit happens, it just happened that millions of people watched it happened live.

Between this and Draymond blacking out while punching the off season is starting strong.

Bron isn’t too mad because he (SpringHill) produced our Docuseries on JR… lol.. Check it out on Prime.

JR is a good player, but unfortunately he will be remembered for the blunder.

You want the pipe?

Everyone saying “they got swept, it didn’t matter’ seems to have forgotten that this directly led to LeBron breaking his hand out of frustration in the locker room.

If it was 1-0 Cavs and LeBron was healthy… who knows🤷🏻‍♂️

Ty Lue should have called timeout

8 years to craft this narrative

Just admit you made a mistake bro.

But he didn’t do that either lol also you did that if you need a three, but didn’t they only need 2 points and he literally had it in the paint? lmao

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The hardest career 12 ppg ever

I love JR but bro how many millions do you make? 😂

Yeah, LeBron was confused

Ah yes so many coaches call timeouts off of offensive rebounds lol

I get that it was a big blunder, but the actual blame should go to GEORGE HILL FOR MISSING BOTH FREE THROWS. Absolute choke job by him. I don’t forget.

nah this aint it jr lol

Crazy they won another ring together and Bron didn’t mention it then 😂

He literally said “I thought we were ahead” when LeBron was doing the iconic confused/pissed meme

We need to stop posting shit like this on this subreddit man. Just giving idiots views

He clearly thought they were up 1 and was killing the clock. I did too in that moment for some reason. I think it was the hill missed FT that threw everyone off

Imagine showing up high asf to work, dropping the ball, and 7 years later you still refuse to see that you were in the wrong.

I never understood how Bron let JR get a ring in LA. He a stand up dude for that lmao

it makes sense, if there was more time on the clock. 4.7 seconds is not enough time to reb, run out to the 3pt line and hand off then possibly call a timeout or make a play. I do understand that they should have called a timeout and that didnt necessarily need to be JR. He got all the blame here for sure but others could have easily intervened, why didnt coach call a timeout? maybe trying to go back up with it made more sense but what did they talk about in the huddle leading up to this?

Good for him

Nah bruh. Time and situation. You had a layup and dribbled out for no reason. These dudes have no accountability. This is a grown man with gray hair btw

I dont care what JR said. That is a dumb play for sure but the fans should move on. It is Hills fault to not make the free throw. JR was lucky to get the rebound but lets be honest his chance to make the shot is less than ¹⁄₃.

Just say “I looked up right when Hill made the free throw and saw 107-107 and assumed they hadn’t put the point up yet. So in my mind that put us up 1.”

Also he could say “If Hill makes his free throw we win, I don’t know why he gets off the hook.”

They weren’t going to win that series even if they took game 1.

No one talks enough about George Hill choking the free throws.

Edit: Well he did tie it up. I thought he missed both.

Crazy lmaooo

“hey don’t pay me enough for this shit” you play basketball bitch shoot the fucking ball, ong he needs to give his rings to LeBron he doesn’t deserve, NPC ass individual if you wanted to give it to LeBron why didn’t you

Maybe Knicks fans were right for jumping him last week

JR Claiming he wasn’t trying to shoot?

Color me suspicious.

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You know what, I kind of buy this. I rewatched and yeah he is under the basket but KD is right on top of him, so going up for a layup probably was a bit dicey

Seems like there is a good chance he did know the score, and this was intentional. Or at least the coach didn’t make it clear what to do if you got a rebound after the second FT

Friendly reminder that they got swept

If George hill had just hit the FT. My Indy guy, damn.

Wtf they don’t pay you for that shit? They EXCLUSIVELY pay you for that shit haha. What even is he trying to say? “They don’t pay me enough to make basketball decisions”… what? 

Dude is still high af to this day. He can’t even keep his eyes open here lmao

Did he get drug tested after the game

Every fucking time JR retells this story it’s a different excuse. I’m fucking exhausted at this point cause Mr. Smith can’t just own up to his mistake. Legit, it’d be less discussed if he’d shut tf up about it himself

The reason changes everytime he brings it up 😭

they weren’t paying Steve Kerr the big bucks but it didn’t stop Jordan from giving him the ball in game 6

I love JR. But this ain’t it chief. Shoulda just said, I fucked up and I’m still living with that shit.

Period.

Just admit you thought you were up a point, bro. You’re not even the first one to do it, Derek Harper did the same thing in the ‘88 WCF.

Logically tbh

we’ll definitely find a video like this of de’aron fox after 10 years

Dude still can’t just own a historic blunder lol. Ah good old JR Smith.

J.R. goofed, simple as that. I like J.R. too, both as a dazzling dunker and as personality, but I acknowledge his limitations. This play certainly was a bad one.

they laid you more then enough JR

a very human explanation lol very relatable

egregious lie that people will believe because they want to hate Lebron

I hate how some of the dumbest people become rich because of sport

Dude is a really good 3 point shooter though

How hard is it to say I forgot the score, it happens

Dont rewrite the story now, Swish. You were the only one in the arena who didn’t know the score of the game.

Jack. Stupid-ass Jack. You was fartin’ in bathtubs, laughing your ass off.

It’s just one game. It was LeBron mega carrying but they were gonna get walloped

He even said “I thought we was up” during the game. FOH I don’t understand why YEARS later it’s so difficult to just own up to the mistake and accept fault