Ray Allen is known as arguably the best NBA shooter of all time. He is a two-time NBA champion, who was a feared ‘clutch’ shooter in his era. However, few know Ray Allen’s extremely intriguing intellectual side.

In a recent interview, a former Nuggets star unveils Ray Allen’s impact on one of his major life decisions. The ex-Nuggets star also talks about why he took the major life decision.

J.R. Smith’s Decision to Go Back to College

In an interview with “Golf.com”, the interviewer asks J.R. Smith, “Can you walk me through your decision to go back to school?” After retiring from the NBA in 2020, the NBA champion decided to go back to college where he started playing college golf. During the ‘lost’ phase that every NBA veteran has after retiring from the league, J.R. Smith enrolled at North Carolina A&T State University where he joined the ‘Aggies’ golf team. After the interviewer’s question to the NBA champion, he smiles as he reveals, “I was playing golf with Ray Allen in the Dominican Republic…essentially with a bunch of our friends, well his friends who are now my friends because he put together an amazing group of people and we all really connected and had this really tight bond.”

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J.R. Smith then says that mid-game, Ray Allen was going back and forth with his computer. So he was like, “Ray, what are you doing?” Smith then reveals that Ray Allen was working on a Master’s degree which surprised him. J.R. Smith then confesses that he then started considering going back to college. He mentions in the interview, “The mindset of continuously getting better every single day as a human being. Not so much as an athlete working on your jump shot or post-up game…it was literally getting better as a man consistently to a point where you have no insecurities about yourself.”

He then talks about how he used to get affected by people only knowing him as “the basketball player.” He states in the interview, “I can’t look at myself just as an athlete but I don’t want other people and my kids to look at me just as an athlete.”

J.R. Smith’s Incredible NBA Journey 

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J.R. Smith is a two-time NBA champion who played alongside LeBron James in the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers team and the 2020 Los Angeles Lakers squad. However, his most memorable individual accomplishments were from his early NBA days with the Denver Nuggets. After getting drafted into the league in 2004, J.R. Smith was traded to the Nuggets in 2006. This is where he shone, ‘leveling up’ as an NBA player. During his five years in the Nuggets (2006-2010) he consistently averaged double-digit points per game and played a very important role in the then-Nuggets team.

Retiring from the NBA in 2020 after an illustrious 17 years in the league, J.R. Smith ‘found himself’ pursuing the sport of golf. Apart from playing golf for his college, he is currently pursuing an African-American history degree. By not going the traditional route of becoming a sports analyst or launching one’s podcast channel, J.R. Smith proves to the world that he is more than ‘just an athlete’. There is a lot more to him than what meets the eye!

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