Kenny Smith
Kenny Smith
Kenneth "Kenny" Smithis an American retired professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association. He played in the NBA from 1987 to 1997 as a member of the Sacramento Kings, Atlanta Hawks, Houston Rockets, Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic, and Denver Nuggets. Nicknamed "The Jet", Smith was an All-American at the University of North Carolina and a two-time NBA Champion with the Houston Rockets. Smith is currently a basketball analyst, and has won several Emmys for his work on...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth8 March 1965
CityNew York City, NY
I told them we have to hand things out ourselves. Don't send your handlers. Don't send your agent. I don't want to see your assistants. These people want to see you. That is the message we want to send, and everyone agreed.
We want them to have a day normalcy.
C'mon Benny, Houston is the fourth-largest city in America. It's a melting pot of charismatic tastemakers, athletes and United States movers and shakers. We have everybody who makes trends coming out to the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday night.
In the second half, they came out on fire and did what they had to do.
In the last two years, we've been a six seed and four seed, so I take it as a compliment (being the No. 1 seed) and that we're making progress.
In the first half, we controlled it, and in the second half, they did. That ended up being the biggest difference in the game.
We kind of flip-flopped the way I thought it would be. We played methodical, error-free football in the opener against Cabot when I would expect us to make mistakes. Last week, we made a lot of mental mistakes and had missed blocking assignments.
This year, we expanded his role by necessity. He had to score because of our injuries, and that is tough for point guards to do unless you're Steve Nash. In our situation, he not only had to get the ball to the right people, but he had to score.
We moved the ball much better tonight. We worked hard at it in practice. We did a much better job of moving the ball around, cutting and making things happen.
We played a good team tonight, and they exposed a weakness of ours that was not being able to take care of the ball. That's why we scheduled these guys. It will make us better.
We plan to have a great time. So get your golfing buddies together and help support our community kids. They need it more than ever this year.
We had a whole bunch of people living on boats, waiting to find out just what had happened.
We really hadn't gotten any type of rhythm yet. The activity was there but the achievement wasn't. I told the guys we needed to have something to show for what we had done up to that point.
Our Gautier Rotary tournament is one of the best in Jackson County. Last year we had to turn people away. We always have a great time and it all benefits the community.