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00:00I'm Jill Painter Lopez for Sports Illustrated joined by Melissa Rowland and Melissa the
00:09newly signed J.R. Smith with the Lakers certainly has one part of his career he'd love to forget
00:15that big mistake in 2018 but one fan is trying to help him with that.
00:19What's going on there?
00:20Exactly.
00:21So back in 2018 in game one of the NBA finals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden
00:27State Warriors the game was tied there was 4.6 seconds left J.R. Smith got the ball and
00:33he dribbled away from the basket.
00:35It was a moment that went down in infamy LeBron James was screaming what are you doing?
00:40J.R. Smith apparently said afterwards that he thought the Cleveland Cavaliers were ahead
00:45in the score so he was trying to waste time but obviously the Cavs ended up losing that
00:51game and they ended up getting swept out of the series and J.R. Smith was absolutely ripped
00:56for that extremely costly mistake in such an important game with a game on the line.
01:02That being said LeBron James forgave him obviously otherwise the Lakers would not have signed
01:07him and a fan recently tweeted at J.R. Smith saying you can't let one mistake define you
01:14we forgive you and J.R. Smith actually retweeted that tweet so it's clearly something that
01:20he had to forgive himself for but now he has a fresh start he's going to be able to compete
01:25with the Lakers who are competing for their first championship since 2010 when the bubble
01:30kicks up in Orlando.