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Smart defended James the way he defends everyone else: by being a pest. He picked him up full court several times, bumping him along the way and making him work. He drew an offensive foul. He did not get pushed around, because he never really gets pushed around.
“Our job was to make it as hard as possible for him,” Smart said. “I felt like I could do that.