Jack Smith, Paper Tiger

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I don’t often talk publicly about my basketball career but here goes.

In college, I led Rutgers University to three straight Final Fours, including a national title on a half-court buzzer beater to topple those preppies from Duke. I left a year early to go pro and proceeded to take the Sixers to the NBA crown, averaging 31 points and a triple double as we blasted past Bird and the Celtics, MJ and the Bulls, and then Magic and the Lakers.