When asked what Marcus Smart offers, JJ Redick recounted receiving 13 stitches after playing against Marcus Smart.
When the Los Angeles Lakers signed Marcus Smart, divergent timelines became an unavoidable topic of conversation. One was based in the past, when Smart was the Defensive Player of the Year, and the other was formed by evaluating the past two injury-plagued seasons of his career.
Lakers head coach JJ Redick still believes in Smart, however, and he has the battle scars to support his confidence in his new defensive stalwart.