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Thursday / March 28.
  • Knicks’ Guard Chris Smith Hopes for Return Next Year

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    GREENBURGH, N.Y. — Former Knicks guard Chris Smith hopes to return to the team next year after undergoing knee surgery this season.

    “They told me to wait until summer league and then go from there,” Smith, the New Jersey native and former Louisville standout, told SNY.tv exclusively following practice Sunday. “I’m pretty confident that I’ll make the team next year.”

    Smith was waived by the Knicks on Oct. 26, but is rehabbing his surgically-repaired knee at their facilities. Even though he’s not under contract, he said he hopes to be scrimmaging with the team by April.

    “I’m recreating my body, really,” he said. “I’m probably about 75 percent but I feel stronger now than I was before.”

    Smith, who made the recent trip to London, said he’s learned from just watching and being around the Knicks’ veterans.

    “I learned a lot from Jason Kidd, Melo, Raymond [Felton] and most of the point guard position I watched,” he said. “I learned a lot about the mental part of the game, too.”

    Smith said he and Anthony exchanged some smack talk over Saturday’s Syracuse-Louisville game, won by the Orange, 70-68.

    “He gave me grief in the locker room because I was talking big-time in the lockerroom,” Smith said, before adding of Michael Carter-Williams’ late-game steal and dunk. “It was a lucky play, it happens.”

    He added: “We went down yesterday, but Russ Smith is still the best player in the country.”

     

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    Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels. A contributor to The New York Times and SportsNet New York (SNY), he is also the author of two books and is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide. He also won an Emmy award for his work on the SNY mini-documentary on Syracuse guard Tyus Battle. A veteran Ultimate Frisbee player, he has competed in numerous National and World Championships and, perhaps more importantly, his teams won the Westchester Summer League (WSL) championships in 2011 and 2013. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children.

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