Uh-oh, J.R Smith is snitching on NBA players. The former Los Angeles Laker admits that players smoked marijuana in the 2020 NBA bubble.
During the recent episode of Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson’s All The Smoke podcast, Smith confirmed the rumors. When asked if the players were getting high in Orlando, Smith says, “We was blowing it down in there. That was the only way you could really function in that joint.”
“It was cool,” Smith said. “I’m glad it happened because it finally broke that barrier and that stigma that you couldn’t play and all of this, it was a drug, it was this and that. “But when you go to the bubble basketball. Some of them dudes was, granted, it was like practice games and some of ‘em really can’t play that well in front of 30,000. But at the same time you saw some of the best level of basketball.”
Smith added that marijuana actually helped some of the players get into a better mindset while on the court.
“When you can be at peace with your mind, your body, and your soul, and you can go out there and just hoop. That’s all you want,” Smith said.
