Amir got the call after his mom and while excited, spent the next two months in a state of worry. He graduated with a 4.4 GPA and had always put academics first, but he still wondered if he was good enough academically for Rice. On Wednesday, Amir got his official acceptance letter from the admissions office. On Saturday, Bowie and Amir will make the drive once again up 59 towards the Medical Center. This time, though, Bowie won’t be going to a hospital. She won’t be dealing with grief or illness. She will be taking Amir to his dorm room at Rice, where he starts summer classes on June 22.
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Joe Smith
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Born: 07/26/75
Height: 6-10 / 2.08
Weight:225 lbs. / 102.1 kg.
Earnings: $61,220,796 ($329,537*)
Born: 07/26/75
Height: 6-10 / 2.08
Weight:225 lbs. / 102.1 kg.
Earnings: $61,220,796 ($329,537*)
Smith has the genes for basketball. His dad is Joe Smith, who was the No. 1 NBA draft pick in 1995. Father and son are building their relationship now, but Amir grew up watching basketball clips of his dad on Google and YouTube. While Joe did financially support him, Amir has memories of being with his father in person just a handful of times. Bowie and Joe were in a relationship during his rookie season with Golden State. After their relationship ended shortly after Amir was born, Bowie stayed close with Joe’s family, particularly his mother, who passed away from cancer in 2007. But Joe and Amir were never together. “It was hard to know I had a dad who accomplished all these great things in the sport I love,” Amir said. “But to not be able to just go outside and actually be able to play with him and learn from him. That was tough.”
The New York Knicks, by signing Louis Amundson to a 10-day contract Saturday, have just expanded the NBA’s all-time 10-team club to an even dozen. Amundson was promptly waived by the Knicks earlier this week after they acquired him from Cleveland as part of the three-team swap with Memphis and Oklahoma City headlined by J.R. Smith, Iman Shumpert and Dion Waiters. But by resigning him, New York has given Amundson the opportunity to join the following exclusive list Below are the only 12 players in league history to have played for at least 10 different teams: 12 teams: Chucky Brown, Jim Jackson, Tony Massenburg and Joe Smith. 11 teams: Mike James and Kevin Ollie. 10 teams: Lou Amundson, Earl Boykins, Mark Bryant, Drew Gooden, Damon Jones and Aaron Williams.
Former NBA star Joe Smith claims his ex-girlfriend, “Love & Hip Hollywood” star Moniece Slaughter, bilked him out of a ton of money … and he’s pissed that cops have done nothing about it. According to a report filed with the Manhattan Beach Police Department, Smith claims that between October 2011 and March 2012, nine checks were written from his checkbook to a Timothy Clayton Carr … totaling $109,000.
Ex-NBA star Joe Smith — the #1 overall pick in the ’95 draft — is spittin’ a new rap verse directed right at Justin Bieber … calling out the pop star over the racist song he recorded when he was 15 … and only TMZ Sports has it. In the new verse, Smith — who goes by the rap name “Joe Beast” — says Justin shouldn’t get a pass just because he was young when he recorded a disgusting N-word filled version of his hit “One Less Lonely Girl.”
Ex-NBA star Joe Smith — the #1 overall pick in the ’95 Draft — is spittin’ hot fire at Donald Sterling … hitting the disgraced Clippers owner with a brand new rap verse … and TMZ Sports has the footage. Ever since Smith called it quits from the NBA in 2011, he’s been focusing on pursuing a rap career — and even started his own label, Nova Unit Records. He’s also got a rap name, “Joe Beast.”
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