Beyond Latrell Sprewell
Joe Smith stood at the far end of the Golden State Warriors ’ downtown practice facility on the morning of Dec. 1, 1997.
He remembers that practice unfolding as any normal session would before commotion began and chaos ensued.
"I really don’t know what happened before or what made it escalate to where it did,” recalled Smith, the Thunder’s 13-year veteran who on that day was just on...
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