Kenny Smith: before and after winning NBA championships

I have good memories of Kenny as a Rocket (despite his defense, or lack there of), and I think he does a solid job with his TV gig. Where he ticks me off is when Charles says some incredibly stupid thing slamming the Rockets, and when Kenny's lips start to move to possibly disagree, nothing comes out. I've seen him do that many times. Smith needs to come out with some stronger opinions at other times, too. I get the feeling that he's careful not to rock the boat. Meanwhile, that's all Barkley seems to do. Take off the self-imposed straight jacket, Kenny!

 

How did Kenny know what size they wore? I imagine this giveaway to be the same as the t-shirts at Rockets games: hey, you guys want a pair of size 16's? Take the shoes either way.

 

Important question- do NBA players still hoop at Fonde? Every summer I get confused about it

 

Who was the last rockets point guard to start 455 games?

 

Rejecting free shoes? Dissing a pro player when you're just a couple of nobodies at Fonde? Kenny Smith has two rings, and those two are probably up for parole soon.

I was young during those years (8ish-12ish), so everything's kind of a blur. (I really wish I had a source to watch old Rockets games from that era and before.) Regardless, I recall having plenty of respect for Kenny Smith the whole time. Even then I understood that he was a key role player on Team Olajuwon, just like every else, and they did their jobs well enough to net two championships. Fine with me.

Regardless of how he treats us on air, I've always been impressed by his quick transition to successful commentator as well. I'm happy for him.

 

Obviously he wasn't perfect, but I was always much more comfortable with him getting the ball and shooting the 3 compared to Maxwell or some of the other guys on the team. He was incredible in Game 1 of the Orlando series.

I do remember the Seattle series mentioned in the first post though, I remember it went 7 games with each team winning games at home. The last game went into OT I think, but unfortunately we lost. At that time I remember the joke being, if Gary Payton is the glove, then Kenny Smith is the hand that fit :grin:

 

He also lead the entire NBA in eFG% the year before the first championship! (a scorching 43.8% from 3 )

Give us a PG like Kenny right now, and we're in the NBA finals. Who was the last PG to shoot 40% from downtown as a Rocket (ie, on his Rocket career).

 

He also didn't turn the ball over. Fundamentally strong point guard.

 

Dang no wonder why he hates houston so much

 

The average NBAer (or any pro athlete) would school 95% of the competition at any pick-up game in their sport.

 

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I have told a story about Kenny Smith a couple of times. This was about 1993 or 1994 and around the time NBA jam had come out. Me and a friend were playing another two guys and I had just hit a game-winning three-pointer with Kenny Smith as my player. About 10 minutes later Kenny walks in and I was telling him the story about how I just won the game with him on NBA jam. He seemed amused but just kind of chuckled.

Cool story, bro.

 

sounds like a bunch of butthurt homers in here lol

 

Rockets would be in the Finals now and Harden would be averaging 15 assists per game.

 

Every now and then someone posts a video from back then and it's amazing watching Kenny perfectly pass to the post for Dream and re-post. Obviously, a lot of that is Dream, but it's clear the Rockets were a well oiled machine in that respect.

Then watch Bev try to post Howard and turn the ball over.