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Jamar Desean Smith (born April 7, 1987) is an American professional
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player for
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of the Italian
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(LBA). Standing at , he plays the
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position. He played collegiate basketball at
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and then at
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.


Early life

On January 8, 2004, Smith, a three-star recruit out of Peoria (Illinois) Richwoods High School committed to the University of Illinois basketball program under then-Head Coach Bruce Weber.


Collegiate career


Illinois

Smith began playing for Illinois in the 2005–2006 season. Illinois had just played in the NCAA National Championship game the previous March, and then lost junior guard
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to the NBA, so the natural shooter Smith seemed to be in a perfect position to step into a vacuum and become a team leader. Even though he was a bench player as a freshman, Smith still managed to be the fifth-highest Illinois scorer that year, appearing in 32 of 33 games; he led the
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in three-point shooting percentage (48.2%), and was a Big Ten All-Freshmen team selection. The 2006-2007 sophomore season for Smith began with trouble, as he suffered a high ankle sprain in the season opener against
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when an opposing player stepped on his ankle. Smith missed the next six games, and also injured the other ankle compensating for the sprained ankle; Smith was never at full strength that season. On February 10, 2007, the Fighting Illini lost to basketball arch-rival
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by a score of 61–65 in a game played at Bloomington, Indiana. It would be the last game Jamar Smith ever played in an Illinois jersey. (See DUI Arrest)


Southern Indiana

On December 30, 2008, after a nearly two-year absence from college basketball, Smith stepped onto the court as a member of the University of Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles. Rusty skills, nerves and embarrassment over having to play while wearing an ankle monitor led to a slow start in his first game for USI, but Smith was soon back to his old form, leading his team to a #2 national ranking in Division II, and was given Honorable Mention Division II All-American, and finished the season averaging 18.5 points per game. As a senior in 2010 Smith was named the Basketball Times Division II Player of the Year, with a career-high 21.6 points per game average.


Collegiate statistics

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Southern Indiana Southern Indiana is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern third of the U.S. state of Indiana and borders the states of Illinois to the west, Kentucky to the south, and Ohio to the east. Spanning the state's southe ...
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Southern Indiana Southern Indiana is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern third of the U.S. state of Indiana and borders the states of Illinois to the west, Kentucky to the south, and Ohio to the east. Spanning the state's southe ...
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Professional career

Following his college career, Jamar Smith played in the 2010
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for the
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. He went unselected in the
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. On September 27, 2010, Smith was signed to a one-year unguaranteed minimum salary contract with the
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, but was waived four days later. On October 30, the Celtics assigned him to their
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affiliate, the
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, where he was named to the D-League's All Rookie Second Team. Despite playing virtually all season with a foot injury, he averaged 13.5 points per game, including a double-double (20 points and 10 rebounds) and finished 4th in the league in 3-point shots made. in April 2011 he was signed to play in Venezuela for Guaiqueries de Margerita, but was released about a week later. In August 2011 he was given a one-year contract by BK Prostejov in the Czech Republic, where he averaged 14.9 points per game. Smith signed with the
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on July 31, 2012 and played for the Celtics in the 2012
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. He appeared in four preseason games, averaging 2.3 points and 1.0 rebound per game. He was waived on October 16, 2012. On October 26, 2012, he signed a one-year deal with
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of Israel. In June 2013, Smith signed a two-year deal with
Brose Baskets Bamberg Baskets is a German professional basketball team from Bamberg, Franconia/North Bavaria. The club has won the German Championship title nine times and the German Cup six times. The club currently plays in the German top tier Basketball ...
of Germany. He left them after one season. On August 4, 2014, he signed a two-year deal with the French team
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. With Limoges he won the 2014–15 LNB Pro A championship. On June 25, 2015, he parted ways with Limoges. On June 26, 2015, Smith signed a two-year contract with the Spanish club
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. In April 2017, Smith won the EuroCup with Unicaja after beating
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in the
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. On July 17, 2017, Smith signed with Russian club UNICS for the 2017–18 season. On June 9, 2018, Smith won the
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award. He averaged 15.4 points and 3.6 assists per game in the 2019–20 season. On July 8, 2020, Smith re-signed with the team. On July 6, 2021, he has signed with Bahçeşehir Koleji of the Turkish
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(BSL). He guided the team to their first
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championship, while winning the FIBA Europe Cup Final MVP award. On July 11, 2023, he signed two-year deal with
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of the Italian
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(LBA).


Career statistics

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,
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Brose Bamberg Bamberg Baskets is a German professional basketball team from Bamberg, Franconia/North Bavaria. The club has won the German Championship title nine times and the German Cup six times. The club currently plays in the German top tier Basketball ...
,
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Limoges CSP Limoges Cercle Saint-Pierre, commonly referred to as Limoges CSP or CSP, is a French professional basketball club based in the city of Limoges. History The club was founded in 1929, but its peak was during the 1980s and 1990s, when they became t ...
,
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Unicaja Unicaja is a Spanish savings bank based in Málaga and chartered as a caja de ahorros providing retail banking services. The banks full name is ''Monte de Piedad y Caja de Ahorros de Ronda, Cádiz, Almería, Málaga y Antequera'' after the ...
,
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Unicaja Unicaja is a Spanish savings bank based in Málaga and chartered as a caja de ahorros providing retail banking services. The banks full name is ''Monte de Piedad y Caja de Ahorros de Ronda, Cádiz, Almería, Málaga y Antequera'' after the ...
, EuroCup , 21 , , 20.8 , , .436 , , .430 , , .783 , , 1.7 , , 2.2 , , .5 , , .1 , , 10.3 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2017–18 , style="text-align:left;",
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,
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BC UNICS Kazan BC UNICS () is a professional basketball club in Kazan, Russia, that plays in the VTB United League, and formerly played in the EuroLeague. On February 28, 2022, EuroLeague Basketball suspended the team because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukr ...
, EuroCup , 19 , , 31.2 , , .454 , , .394 , , 1.00 , , 1.8 , , 2.9 , , 1.2 , , .1 , , 13.1 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2018–19 , style="text-align:left;",
BC UNICS Kazan BC UNICS () is a professional basketball club in Kazan, Russia, that plays in the VTB United League, and formerly played in the EuroLeague. On February 28, 2022, EuroLeague Basketball suspended the team because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukr ...
,
VTB United League The VTB United League () is an international professional men's club basketball league that was founded in 2009. It is made up of mostly Russian clubs, along with one each from Belarus and Kazakhstan. Since 2013, it is the first tier of Russian ...
, 31 , , 25.4 , , .515 , , .451 , , .972 , , 2.6 , , 3.2 , , 1.0 , , .1 , , 13.2 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2019–20 , style="text-align:left;",
BC UNICS Kazan BC UNICS () is a professional basketball club in Kazan, Russia, that plays in the VTB United League, and formerly played in the EuroLeague. On February 28, 2022, EuroLeague Basketball suspended the team because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukr ...
, EuroCup , 15 , , 27.8 , , .524 , , .528 , , .778 , , 2.0 , , 3.7 , , 1.1 , , .3 , , 15.2 , - , -class=sortbottom , align="center" colspan=2 , Career , All Leagues , 198 , , 27.7 , , .475 , , .449 , , .893 , , 2.1 , , 3.1 , , .9 , , .1 , , 12.5


Disciplinary and legal issues


DUI Arrest

On the night of February 12, 2007, Central Illinois experienced one of the biggest blizzards it had received in the previous ten years, dumping 15" of snow in the
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area, and making travel dangerous. At approximately 9 PM that night, Smith and Illini teammate
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, both age 19 at the time, began drinking at one of the apartments in the complex where they lived in the small town of
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, about 10 minutes south of the
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(now called State Farm Center), the University of Illinois basketball arena. Smith says he was engaged in a drinking game they called "Power Hour"—drinking a shot of tequila every 60 seconds, a dozen shots in total. According to witnesses, Smith and Carlwell left the apartment at approximately 11 PM after "things got really rowdy and out of control" and got into a 1996 Lexus belonging to Smith's grandfather; the two intoxicated players drove off into the blizzard toward the university campus on the snow-packed roads. Shortly thereafter, Smith returned to the apartment, visibly shaken, and incoherent. About one mile from the apartment, Smith had lost control of the car in the snow, spun 180 degrees, and the passenger door of the car smashed into a tree on the opposite side of the road. He had driven the car back to the apartment complex and Brian Carlwell was still outside in the passenger side of the car—Smith said that Carlwell was dead. Witnesses said the Smith was so distraught over the thought of killing his friend that he broke a window and tried to harm himself and was restrained. Witnesses outside the apartment saw the damaged car with a person inside who was not moving, and called 911. When authorities arrived, it turned out that Carlwell was not dead, but unconscious—he had suffered a severe concussion and was admitted to a local hospital where he was kept in an induced coma for four days after the accident. Amateur photos of the wrecked car Smith was driving were posted contemporaneously by the administrator of a major Illinois basketball discussion forum. Carlwell, a 6'10" freshman reserve center for the Illini, rejoined the team a week later, but did not play in any of the final eight games of the season. He only played in three games for Illinois the following season, and in February 2008, one year after the accident, Carlwell announced that he was transferring to San Diego State University, where he played his final two college seasons. Jamar Smith was charged by the Champaign County Sheriff with Aggravated DUI (because of Carlwell's severe injuries) and Leaving the Scene of an Accident Involving Personal Injury; both charges are felonies in Illinois. Smith's
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that night was .176, more than twice the .08 legal limit. Three months after the accident Smith entered a plea of guilty to DUI with grievous bodily harm, and the leaving the scene charge was dropped as part of a plea agreement. Partly because Smith had no prior criminal record of any kind, he received a relatively light sentence—15 days in jail, an $850 fine, two years probation, and 75 hours community service. He was also ordered not to consume alcohol as a condition of his probation. After the guilty plea, the Illinois basketball program suspended Smith for one year, and permitted him to
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during that time, so as not to lose a year of NCAA eligibility during his suspension.


Probation Violation

Smith completed the university suspension in May 2008, and the NCAA basketball pundits were speculating about the effect that the return of Smith to the team would have for Illinois, since the team had struggled to find a consistent shooter. However Jamar Smith was still under the two year probation restrictions imposed by the court, when on July 25 of that year, police were called to the scene of a 2:30 AM altercation outside a campus-area bar. Smith was not involved in any way in the altercation, but police said they ordered Smith, and others who were at the scene, to stay back away from the altercation to avoid inflaming the incident. Police said that Smith walked away three times, but each time returned to the scene. Police then approached Smith, said he smelled like alcohol and asked him about it, and Smith admitted he had a few beers. As a well-known local athlete, the police knew who Smith was, and they also knew that his DUI sentence prohibited him from consuming alcohol. He was not arrested at that time but a few days later, the Champaign County States Attorney, Julia Reitz, asked a judge to revoke Smith's probation. As a result of the probation violation, Smith was given a six-month suspended jail sentence, his probation period was extended an additional 18 months, he was ordered to enter an alcohol rehabilitation program, and to wear an alcohol monitoring anklet 24 hours a day until his probation was completed. The University of Illinois announced that Smith was permanently dismissed from the basketball program. Smith arranged with court officials to move to Evansville, Indiana where he completed the ordered rehab, worked in a grocery store, and entered the
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.


Aftermath

Jamar Smith is forthcoming about his alcoholism, the serious errors in judgment he made, and how he was given a second, and a third, chance to get his life together. From some reports, Smith, with the help of friends and family, has turned his life around. He has said that at some point he would like to travel and speak to young people about his experiences. Smith is still in contact with many people from his time at Illinois, including former head coach Bruce Weber, his best friend from the Illinois team, Chester Frazier, and Brian Carlwell, the player who was riding with 19-year-old Smith in the car on the night that changed the direction of his life.


References


External links


eurobasket.com profile

Jamar Smith
at Proballers
EuroLeague profile

Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles bio


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