ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski turned Dennis Smith Jr.’s world the wrong way up on commerce deadline day when he mistakenly mentioned Smith was to be traded.
Woj reported that the Nets guard had been traded to the Raptors with Spencer Dinwiddie in a deal for Dennis Schroder, solely to right his mistake minutes later, and make clear that Smith wasn’t concerned.
After Brooklyn’s 123-103 win over San Antonio on Saturday, Smith recalled the second he thought he was getting traded.
“I got Woj tweets on, so all of his tweets come to my phone as soon as he tweets them on deadline day,” Smith told reporters. “I see Spencer going there. I’m on FaceTime, and I see my title pop up. I’m like, ‘Hell nah!’ I click on on it, and it says, ‘Dennis Smith Jr. traded to the Raptors.’ I had a knot in my abdomen, I used to be sick!
“…I’m looking at my phone and it says [Nets assistant General Manager] Andy Birdsong. He’s calling me as I saw it. And I’ve been traded before mid-year so I’m like, ‘He’s gonna deliver the news.’ So I’m looking that thing like, ‘I’m not gonna answer this sh**!’ Then I press answer and he’s like, ‘Nah! Nah! Nah! It’s a typo. You good. You staying here. Don’t worry.’ So I start hitting everyone up and telling them, ‘That’s cap! I ain’t going nowhere!”
Poor Smith defined that his telephone was blowing up that commerce day, and he couldn’t even get by means of his pre-game ritual after the information.
“I ain’t even get no pregame nap that day,” Smith mentioned. “I was sick. I went outside and took a little walk to try to decompress. It was crazy.”
The Net’s new backcourt, that includes the 2 Dennises, is off to a promising begin following Saturday’s win.
In his debut, Schroder scored 15 factors, three rebounds 12 assists on 60 p.c taking pictures from three, whereas Smith had 14 factors, six rebounds and two assists on 66.7 p.c from the sphere and from three.
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