JR Smith explains ‘worst part’ about being knocked down by Knicks fans

Knicks fans got a little too wild exterior Madison Square Garden after Game 1, however JR Smith is surviving.

The former Knick talked about how social media is the actual perpetrator for why it took so lengthy for him to stand up as a pack of untamed fans almost trampled him Monday evening after the Knicks beat the 76ers.

“The Knicks fans saw JR walking and they couldn’t believe it, man,” former Knicks teammate Iman Shumpert mentioned to Smith on an episode of “Run it Back.” “They gave him love. They gave him too much love and knocked him down in front of Madison Square [Garden]. Legendary performance.”

Smith responded: “The worst part about it is in this society, man, they’re so bad. Everybody just has their phone out, and I’m like, ‘Yo, bro, pull me up. Come on, dog.'”

Smith joked that he “needed some help” and was in search of Shumpert to return to his rescue.

Knicks fans have been going wild after a 137-98 victoryand after they noticed Smith exterior the world, they crowded him and almost trampled the previous NBA star.

Smith repeatedly advised the fans to “relax” as they piled on high of him, however that he didn’t cease them from crowding him.

The former Knicks guard, who performed for the staff from 2011-15 when the Knicks have been a robust Eastern Conference contender with Mike Woodson as coach and Carmelo Anthony main the cost, didn’t specify whether or not he would attend Game 2 following the damaging encounter.

Shumpert and Smith have been additionally teammates on the Cavaliers’ championship staff in 2016 after a trade from the Knicks at the trade deadline.