# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-r-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:00:45.827Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-r-smith"
name: "J. R. Smith"
slug: "j-r-smith"
description: "Earl Joseph \"J. R.\" Smith III is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Smith played high school basketball at New Jersey basketball powerhouse Saint Benedict's Preparatory School in Newark. He entered the NBA out of high school after being selected in the first round of the 2004 NBA draft with the 18th overall pick by the New Orleans Hornets. He has also played for the Denver Nuggets, New York Knicks, and the Cleveland Cavaliers as well as for the Zhejiang Golden Bulls of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). Smith won two NBA championships, with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016 and with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020."
tagline: "American professional basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J.R._Smith_(40627108671)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1985-09-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           60.82
  momentum:             15
  historical:           23.015588
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 131
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/TheRealJRSmith"
    handle:    "TheRealJRSmith"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/teamswish/"
    handle:    "teamswish"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6068528/"
    handle:    "nm6068528"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.teamswish.com/"
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    title: "Ջեյ Ար Սմիթ"
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    title: "Џеј-Ар Смит"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "J.R. Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q669334"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2915252"
    title: "R.J. Smith"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump