Basketball

NBA famous Marcus Smart celebrates 25th Birthday, 6th march

Marcus Osmond Smart is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Oklahoma State Cowboys before being drafted with the 6th in general pick in the NBA draft.

The first game of the 2014 NCAA tournament, the Cowboys lost to Gonzaga. He completed with 23, 13 rebounds, 7 assists and 6 steals, turning into the first player in tournament history to record 20 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 steals.

Amid his two seasons at Oklahoma State, Smart found the middle value of 16.6 points, 5.9 assists in 33.1 minutes per game.

IN 2014, Smart was chosen with the 6th overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics. He joined the Celtics for the 2014 NBA Summer League, In simply his fifth NBA game, Smart sprained his left lower leg in the Celtics’ 101– 98 prevail upon the Indiana Pacers.

After next season, His win upon the Phoenix Suns, Smart recorded his first profession triple-twofold with 10, 11 helps and 1111 assists and 11 rebounds, becoming the first Celtics player to record a triple-double off the bench since Art Williams did so in 1971. On January 31, he tied his career high of 26 points in a loss to the Orlando Magic.

Smart scored a then season-high 20 points in a 118– 93 misfortune to the Washington Wizards. On December 25, he scored 15 and made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 47 seconds left to enable the Celtics claim a 119–114 win over the New York Knicks.

smart came back to the line-up for Game 5 of their first-round series against the Milwaukee Bucks. He came off the bench and had nine points, five rebounds, four assists and three blocks in a 92–87 win, helping the Celtics take a 3–2 lead, As of now He re-signed with the Celtics to a four-year, $52 million contract.