JR Smith is getting married today.
He techincally might already be married, but they are having a wedding ceremony. Jewel Harris is the mother of his two kids and he credits her with changing the way he thinks and his life.
Ever since I got back with my wife, Jewel, last year and proposed to her in August, things started going uphill slowly but surely.
Before I was doing so much thinking; now it’s just reacting. So it’s just taking stuff as things come and realizing what’s more important between her and my girls, Demi and Peyton, as opposed to everything else.
A lot has changed for me mentally and materially. I used to in the summertime spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I’m actually consciously trying to save, so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I’ve even sold a few things. More than anything, being in that dad role is more important now. I know I have to leave something for these girls. I don’t want to leave them with bills or anything.
I want to leave with something that they can do what they want to do with it. After my career is over with, and they have kids, I think more than anything it’s just building a foundation for the family.
The Summer of JR after winning championship has been more about watching him evolve than turning up.
That is a beautiful thing.
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