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Welcome back ladies and gentlemen to the latest edition of Weekends.

I'm your host, Big Wads, aka Wadsley Lambray.

And I'm joined by very, very special and distinguished guests today.

He's a two time NBA champion.

You know him as one of the most colorful, well known, exciting guys of his generations of players in the NBA.

And now he's a TV star shout outs and welcome to the show.

JR Swish was going on, brother.

Appreciate it.

I want to run.

Well, you know, man, shout outs to the good people at Amazon who were nice enough to send me some screeners.

I was able to catch a couple of the first episodes of your new show, which is called JR Smith redefined.

What struck me, man, is somebody we're really close and aged.

So I've been following your career essentially since that McDonald's all American game.

And you're not somebody who did a lot of media.

Your name was always in the press, but it wasn't necessarily you doing media.

And so watching this, I realized this is the first time that JR is like doing media in a real way.

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