Dennis Smith Jr. says he contemplated a switch to the NFL
’s NBA career appeared to be at an end. Like anyone else, he weighed his options and landed on a career change. Unlike most people, he landed on yet another professional sport. . “If s--- don’t work out, I’m just going to the NFL. I was dead-a-- serious. I put on a lot of weight. I was going to try.”
Smith, 24, had just been cut from his fourth team in five years when he started to train for the transition as a defensive back. But before speaking to a single team, he got a one-year offer from the Nick Friedman, an assistant coach with the Hornets, trained the North Carolina native during his pre-draft process in 2017 before he was selected with the No. 9 pick by the Mavericks. The two remained in touch over the years and they ran into each other during open pickup runs in Miami.
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