The Cleveland Cavaliers Suspended J.R. Smith For Throwing a Bowl of Soup at an Assistant Coach

What a waste of good soup.

Steve Huff

Mar 3, 2018

Cleveland Cavaliers shooting guard J.R. Smith apparently has a thing for throwing liquids on people.

He doused a Vegas bottle service babe with champagne after the Cavs won the NBA championship in 2016. That wasn’t super controversial. It was a celebration and she seemed okay with it. Apparently his team isn’t okay with him throwing soup at coaches, though.

According to a report from ESPN, Smith was suspended for a single game last Thursday for pasting assistant coach Damon Jones with soup and not even giving him oyster crackers.

ESPN cited “multiple sources with knowledge of the incident” to support the claim. Smith was back on the court Friday, and while head coach Tyronn Lue wouldn’t say much about the incident, he did reportedly say he’d discussed it with Smith.

Obviously, social media users had a lot of (pretty damn hilarious) fun at Smith’s expense.

We checked the rulebook on @TheRealJRSmith's soup suspension.
ICYMI: https://t.co/37aKiyqTUS pic.twitter.com/2CwdRvxDmL

— News 5 Cleveland (@WEWS) March 2, 2018

https://twitter.com/OldPlayerTweets/status/969611526465359872

JR Smith standing over the microwave watching the cream of broccoli get nice and hot for Damon Jones noggin pic.twitter.com/T9jLBjrZeJ

— . (@gregslim) March 2, 2018

Two of these will protect you
The rest are coming to kill you:

7 Eagles
12 Water Buffalos
3 Grizzly Bears
6 Silverback Gorillas
10,000 Rats
15 Wolves
25 Alligators
1 JR Smith Armed With Some Piping Hot Italian Wedding Soup

— Céad Míle Fáilte (@ColeyMick) March 2, 2018

JR Smith: “What did the bowl of soup say to the face?”

Damon Jones: “Wha—“

JR Smith: pic.twitter.com/9UZtPtRk76

— Josiah Johnson (@KingJosiah54) March 2, 2018

There are reports that immediately after Coach Jones got a faceful of Minestrone or whatever the Cavs hired a new nutritionist—one whose face might be familiar from his stint on Seinfeld.