{"id":508361,"date":"2026-06-24T04:58:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/508361\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T04:58:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:58:38","slug":"jr-smith-i-probably-played-70-percent-of-my-career-depressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/508361\/","title":{"rendered":"JR Smith: &#8216;I probably played 70 percent of my career depressed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JR Smith: &#8216;I probably played 70 percent of my career depressed&#8217;<a class=\"gnt_bc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>HoopsHype<\/p>\n<p>June 17, 2026, 4:27 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">JR Smith: &#8220;I played 16 years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AcLzNYZMurk&amp;t=1460s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on YouTube\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">I probably played 70% of my career depressed.<\/a> That&#8217;s crazy to think about. That&#8217;s nuts. And to still be able to have a, I would say a good career, it wasn&#8217;t great, it was a good career, but I literally think about this shit all the time, bro. My potential was so high in that aspect of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AcLzNYZMurk&amp;t=1460s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on YouTube\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__yt_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AcLzNYZMurk&amp;t=1460s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-g-r=\"vp_tg\" aria-label=\"Play YouTube video\" data-v-t=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AcLzNYZMurk&amp;t=1460s\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img gnt_em_vp_img__yn\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/AcLzNYZMurk\/maxresdefault.jpg\" onload=\"if(this.naturalWidth&lt;200){this.setAttribute('onload','this.classList.remove(\\'gnt_em_vp_img__yn\\')');this.src=\" https:=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 www.hoopshype.com. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JR Smith: &#8216;I probably played 70 percent of my career depressed&#8217; HoopsHype June 17, 2026, 4:27 a.m. ET&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[115757,163,85,46,522,523,232974,232975,232976,119971,115931,233515,115932,118101,116184,119972,115760],"class_list":["post-508361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-accessfree","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-sourcehoops-hype","tag-sstssportsnbarumors","tag-sstsnnba-rumors","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagcelebrities-entertainment-news","tag-tagj-r-smith","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-tagmental-health","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}