Marcus Smart Rumors
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Position: G
Born: 03/06/94
Height: 6-3 / 1.91
Weight:227 lbs. / 103 kg.
Salary: $12,553,571
Born: 03/06/94
Height: 6-3 / 1.91
Weight:227 lbs. / 103 kg.
Salary: $12,553,571
Tim Bontemps: Marcus Smart said he will put “Freedom” on his jersey in the restart, but said that he would’ve preferred to put “I Matter” on it. That, however, wasn’t one of the options provided from the list the NBA and NBPA put together for players to choose from.
Chris Forsberg: Marcus Smart on Robert Williams: “He’s still catching crazy lobs.” Said he looks ready and healthy.
Enter Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart, who used a video conference with reporters Tuesday to urge the league’s younger players to take the coronavirus seriously even if they don’t experience any symptoms. “It’s really concerning because unfortunately, those (asymptomatic cases) are the ones that (are) the problem,” Smart said. “Because you go out there and you’re asymptomatic, you don’t know it and you go to your Grandma or you have a kid and go home to your kid, your wife, she’s pregnant, you never know. “You don’t know because you don’t feel anything, so you’re like, ‘I don’t need to get tested. I feel fine.’ Then you’re spreading it and now it’s everywhere and it’s out of control even more than what it is.”
Brian Robb: Marcus Smart on playing in Orlando bubble: “You have to be mentally strong for this.”
Tom Westerholm: Marcus Smart encourages anyone who has had COVID to donate plasma. “You don’t know whose life you might change with that.”
Jay King: Marcus Smart said the Celtics are all ready to play. Being without basketball has been hard. “There’s still that unknown that worries a lot of guys.”
A. Sherrod Blakely: The only #Celtics player who has tested positive for the coronavirus was Marcus Smart (one of the NBA’s first to test positive), according to Daniel Theis.
As Maxwell proudly watched Celtics such as Jaylen Brown, Marcus Smart, Enes Kanter, and Vincent Poirier join in peaceful demonstrations, using their social media channels to rev up support in real time, he wondered what life might have been like if he had had access to similar platforms. “To have my voice heard,” he said. “For me to have gone someplace and been a popular athlete and said, ‘There is a beach in South Carolina which is segregated, and they put a chain-link fence in the water and you have to swim all the way out to go around?’ I was thinking as a little boy like, ‘Damn, was the water different? If you went past this area, what would happen?’ But I’d love to go back, and I’d love to be like these guys.”
A. Sherrod Blakely: The #Celtics @Marcus Smart on why he’s participating in the tonight’s peaceful protest here in Boston.
It was a worrisome time for the Celtics, who were put into self-quarantine when they arrived back to Boston from their trip to Milwaukee, but they had all the confidence in the world that Smart would beat COVID-19. He is, after all, Marcus Smart, Boston’s defensive bulldog who doesn’t back down from anything. “Marcus is just a great guy with a huge heart. I think COVID took a look at him and said ‘to heck with it,’” Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck joked during an interview with WBZ-TV’s Dan Roche. “He’s so strong. Not to make a joke of it, but we’re glad he’s back and he’s fine. Everyone is working out and shooting baskets and hopefully we can unlock basketball soon enough.”
“Grant, I accept your project frontline challenge. Our healthcare workers are true heroes and I’m thankful for what they’re doing to keep us safe. To thank them I am donating [by] delivering meals to New England Baptist Hospital in Boston,” Langford said in a post on Twitter, before challenging another of his teammates to follow suit. “To continue our efforts to feed thousands of healthcare workers Marcus Smart, I nominate you, you’re up next.”
Marcus Smary: My @YGC_Foundation is donating over 425 meals to Boston & area frontiine hospital workers. U can help! Go to MarcusSmart.org & donate. Til May 16 100% of proceeds go to our workers. Me & my support team got some more surprises that I’ll post here in a bit! Stay tuned.
The Celtics had just played the Jazz on March 6, and the entire team was subsequently tested out of precaution. Celtics guard Jayson Tatum remembers that day well. “The test they do definitely hurt and was uncomfortable, and I wouldn’t want to go through it again,” Tatum told Yahoo Sports. “The fact that Marcus tested positive is a wakeup call to everyone how serious this disease is.”
John Karalis: Kanter on Smart’s positive COVID-19 test: “I knew he was going to beat that because that virus hasn’t met anyone like Marcus Smart”
Marcus Smart, a guard for the Boston Celtics, confirmed through his agent that he is one of the players who will opt in to the program. Smart announced Monday on Twitter that he had been cleared of the virus by the Massachusetts Department of Health. The identities of the other three players planning to participate are not known.
Shams Charania: Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart plans to donate his blood plasma to National COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Project for research on the blood of those recovered from coronavirus, sources tell @The Athletic @Stadium.
Jayson Tatum is luckier than most people nowadays. When he was potentially exposed to COVID-19, the Boston Celtics found their way to test him and the rest of the team. Since returning from Milwaukee, where the team was scheduled to face the Bucks when the NBA shut down, Tatum has been holed up in his house. “It was scary when (Marcus) Smart found out that he had it and he didn’t have any symptoms,” Smart told Jeff Goodman on the latest episode of the Good N’ Plenty podcast. “So it was like ‘wow, any of us could have it at this point.’”
Marcus Smart cleared from coronavirus
Shams Charania: Celtics’ Marcus Smart says he has been cleared from coronavirus as of Friday.
Marcus Smart: Corona Free as of two days ago. Cleared by Mass Dept of Health. Thanks for everyone’s thoughts and prayers and I’m doing the same for everyone that’s been effected by this. Stay safe and stay together- apart! Much love!
Marcus Smart is the lone member of the Celtics whose test came back positive, but according to Stevens, he has shown no symptoms. Smart announced he had the coronavirus on March 19. “I’m just happy that when he tested positive he continued to experience no symptoms and has felt great ever since,″ said Stevens. “We landed from Milwaukee 15 days ago now and he’s been feeling good. I’ve checked in with him as everybody else has very regularly. I’ve seen him on conference calls a few times.
Brad Stevens: “He seems to be doing really well. I’m proud of how he kind of took the initiative to tell people that he had it and he felt good. He got online and continued to asked people to practice social distancing and self-isolation right now. He’s great, great spirits, joking as always.″
Boston Celtics coach Brad Stevens said that guard Marcus Smart is doing “great” in the wake of testing positive for COVID-19 last week. “Great. He’s great. Great spirits. Joking as always,” Stevens said Friday morning on a conference call with local media. “We had a Zoom with the team, told the team we were going to give them their own space to hang out and have fun — and he told us to get off. “So he’s great.”
Stevens said he and the rest of the Celtics have continued to check in on Smart and that the player feels good. Stevens added that he was proud of Smart for announcing his positive test and spreading the word to people to be smart and self-isolate to try to slow the spread of the disease. “Obviously this thing spreads very quickly, and doesn’t need as much contact as obviously you get when you’re in the middle of a basketball game,” Stevens said. “I’m just happy that when he tested positive he continued to experience no symptoms and has felt great ever since.
“We landed from Milwaukee 15 days ago now, and he’s been feeling good. I’ve checked in with him as everybody else has, very regularly. I’ve seen him on conference calls a few times and he seems to be doing really well. “I’m proud of how he kinda took the initiative to tell people that he had it and that he felt good and that he got online and just continued to ask people to practice social distancing and self-isolation right now. It’s a really unique, unsettling time for everyone.”
Chris Forsberg: Celtics coach Brad Stevens says Marcus Smart is “doing really well.” Said he’s proud of Smart for coming forward with his positive result and speaking to the importance of social distancing.
Before much time passed, the Twitter followers for Lane and his blog, Celtics Sentinel, joined in on his mission. So did complete strangers. They repeatedly sent the message to Celtics players, hoping at least one of them would find Carson’s story and respond. Smart did first. After losing his own mother, Camellia, to cancer two years ago, he could sympathize with Carson. “I know the feeling of losing a mom,” Smart said. “He’s a lot younger than I was. I was already older, so for me, it was a little more comprehendible. I can only imagine what he’s thinking, what’s going through his mind. He’s a little kid. He misses his mom. So for me, losing a loved one, especially a mother, sits home with you.”
Chris Forsberg: “Let me tell you something, that virus has never faced anyone like Marcus Smart.” @Enes Kanter sends support to a teammate, says the Celtics are maintaining chemistry through video chats, and champions social distancing. 🎧 bit.ly/KanterPod 📺 youtube.com/watch?v=vH7g4S… pic.twitter.com/dJZwxHQZuT
Jay King: The Celtics are still waiting on some tests, according to sources. There’s still a possibility Marcus Smart isn’t the only person in the organization with the coronavirus.
Marcus Smart tested positive for COVID-19
Shams Charania: Celtics guard Marcus Smart announces he has tested positive for coronavirus.
Marrcus Smart: I was tested 5 days ago and the results came back tonight, which were positive. Ive been self quarantined since the test, thank goodness. COVID-19 must be taken w the highest of seriousness. I know it’s a #1 priority for our nations health experts, & we must get more testing ASAP
Marcus Smart: I’ve had no symptoms and I feel great. But the younger generation in our country MUST self distance. This is not a joke. Not doing so is selfish. Together we can beat this, but we must beat it together by being apart for a short while. Much love!!
Adam Himmelsbach: Marcus Smart missed the Celtics’ March 2 practice due to illness, but his description of his symptoms the following day, primarily vomiting, are generally not coronavirus symptoms.
Marcus Smart: Welp. I guess from a glass half full perspective- I can’t get fined more $ for a while! Doing well. Layin low. Y’all b careful & take care out there. Spend some time w ur loved ones. If any good comes out of this it will be that we all slowed down our lives a lil! Much love!
Marcus Smart: Welp. I guess from a glass half full perspective- I can’t get fined more $ for a while! Doing well. Layin low. Y’all b careful & take care out there. Spend some time w ur loved ones. If any good comes out of this it will be that we all slowed down our lives a lil! Much love!
Adrian Wojnarowski: NBA is fining Boston’s Marcus Smart $35K for interaction with refs in loss to Nets, per source.
John Karalis: Marcus Smart fine is official pic.twitter.com/l9D2UvLkpB
Chris Grenham: Marcus Smart on his position: “Still to this day it’s a stretch six. It’s kind of like the little pandora’s box, the mystery box. You never know what you’re gonna get. Feel me?”
