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Dennis Smith Jr. switches diet in quest for Knicks starting job

Dennis Smith Jr. came to camp with a new shot — and a new body.

Smith, the Fayetteville, N.C., product with a self-admitted taste for Bojangles, took coach David Fizdale’s mandate to step up his nutrition game if he wanted to remain the team’s starting point guard.

The key piece to the Kristaps Porzingis blockbuster last January, Smith reported to training camp 15 pounds lighter and said he skipped the fried-chicken chain “most” of the summer

“Yeah, I had to change some of the things I ate,’’ Smith said. “I’m a country boy. We eat different down there.