Rik and Derrik Smits Both Ready to go to Work

Rik Smits is moving back to Indianapolis next fall, to the only place in the United States that truly feels like home. He's got two good reasons. Maybe three.

His son, Derrik, will be playing at Butler, having transferred from Valparaiso. His daughter, Jasmine, works for the Pacers in their player development department. And he, as a matter of fact, is thinking of finding work as well, having grown bored with retirement.

"You're laughing, but I'm serious," he said over the telephone from Cave Creek, Arizona, where he has lived the past few years. "I'm ready for a job. I've been retired for what, 30-some years now? Has it been 30 years?"

Nineteen, actually.

"It seems like 30," he said. "I'm…