Jamar Smith

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jamar Smith
Occupation	Basketball Player
Date Of Birth	Apr 7, 1987(1987-04-07)
Age	38
Birthplace	Peoria
Country	United States
Birth City	Peoria
Horoscope	Taurus

Jamar Smith Biography

Jamar Smith is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Player who was born on April 7, 1987 in Peoria, Peoria, United States. Jamar Smith (born April 7, 1987) is an American professional basketball player for UNICS Kazan of the VTB United League. Standing at 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m), he plays the shooting guard position. He played collegiate basketball at Illinois and then at Southern Indiana.

The 2006-2007 sophomore season for Smith began with trouble, as he suffered a high ankle sprain in the season opener against Austin Peay when an opposing player stepped on his ankle. Smith missed the next six games, and also injured the other ankle compensating for the sprained ankle; Smith was never at full strength that season. On February 10, 2007, the Fighting Illini lost to basketball arch-rival Indiana University by a score of 61-65 in a game played at Bloomington, Indiana. It would be the last game Jamar Smith ever played in an Illinois jersey. (See DUI Arrest)

Carlwell, a 6’10” freshman reserve center for the Illini, rejoined the team a week later, but did not play in any of the final eight games of the season. He only played in three games for Illinois the following season, and in February 2008, one year after the accident, Carlwell announced that he was transferring to San Diego State University, where he played his final two college seasons.

On December 30, 2008, after a nearly two-year absence from college basketball, Smith stepped onto the court as a member of the University of Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles. Rusty skills, nerves and embarrassment over having to play while wearing an ankle monitor led to a slow start in his first game for USI, but Smith was soon back to his old form, leading his team to a #2 national ranking in Division II, and was given Honorable Mention Division II All- American, and finished the season averaging 18.5 points per game. As a senior in 2010 Smith was named the Basketball Times Division II Player of the Year, with a career-high 21.6 points per game average.

On the night of February 12, 2007, Central Illinois experienced one of the biggest blizzards it had received in the previous ten years, dumping 15″ of snow in the Champaign area, and making travel dangerous. At approximately 9 PM that night, Smith and Illini teammate Brian Carlwell, both age 19 at the time, began drinking at one of the apartments in the complex where they lived in the small town of Savoy, Illinois, about 10 minutes south of the Assembly Hall (now called State Farm Center), the University of Illinois basketball arena. Smith says he was engaged in a drinking game they called “Power Hour”—drinking a shot of tequila every 60 seconds, a dozen shots in total. According to witnesses, Smith and Carlwell left the apartment at approximately 11 PM after “things got really rowdy and out of control” and got into a 1996 Lexus belonging to Smith’s grandfather; the two intoxicated players drove off into the blizzard toward the university campus on the snow-packed roads.

Jamar Smith Net Worth

Jamar Smith is one of the richest Basketball Player from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jamar Smith 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

On January 8, 2004, Smith, a three-star recruit out of Peoria (Illinois) Richwoods High School committed to the University of Illinois basketball program under then-Head Coach Bruce Weber.

Smith began playing for Illinois in the 2005-2006 season. Illinois had just played in the NCAA National Championship game the previous March, and then lost junior guard Deron Williams to the NBA, so the natural shooter Smith seemed to be in a perfect position to step into a vacuum and become a team leader. Even though he was a bench player as a freshman, Smith still managed to be the fifth-highest Illinois scorer that year, appearing in 32 of 33 games; he led the Big Ten Conference in three-point shooting percentage (48.2%), and was a Big Ten All-Freshmen team selection.

Smith completed the university suspension in May 2008, and the NCAA basketball pundits were speculating about the effect that the return of Smith to the team would have for Illinois, since the team had struggled to find a consistent shooter. However Jamar Smith was still under the two year probation restrictions imposed by the court, when on July 25 of that year, police were called to the scene of a 2:30 AM altercation outside a campus-area bar. Smith was not involved in any way in the altercation, but police said they ordered Smith, and others who were at the scene, to stay back away from the altercation to avoid inflaming the incident. Police said that Smith walked away three times, but each time returned to the scene. Police then approached Smith, said he smelled like alcohol and asked him about it, and Smith admitted he had a few beers. As a well-known local athlete, the police knew who Smith was, and they also knew that his DUI sentence prohibited him from consuming alcohol. He was not arrested at that time but a few days later, the Champaign County States Attorney, Julia Reitz, asked a judge to revoke Smith’s probation.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Jamar Smith was charged by the Champaign County Sheriff with Aggravated DUI (because of Carlwell’s severe injuries) and Leaving the Scene of an Accident Involving Personal Injury; both charges are felonies in Illinois. Smith’s blood alcohol content that night was .176, more than twice the .08 legal limit. Three months after the accident Smith entered a plea of guilty to DUI with grievous bodily harm, and the leaving the scene charge was dropped as part of a plea agreement. Partly because Smith had no prior criminal record of any kind, he received a relatively light sentence—15 days in jail, an $850 fine, two years probation, and 75 hours community service. He was also ordered not to consume alcohol as a condition of his probation. After the guilty plea, the Illinois basketball program suspended Smith for one year, and permitted him to redshirt during that time, so as not to lose a year of NCAA eligibility during his suspension.

Facts & Trivia

Jamar Ranked on the list of most popular Basketball Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jamar Smith celebrates birthday on April 7 of every year.

Shortly thereafter, Smith returned to the apartment, visibly shaken, and incoherent. About one mile from the apartment, Smith had lost control of the car in the snow, spun 180 degrees, and the passenger door of the car smashed into a tree on the opposite side of the road. He had driven the car back to the apartment complex and Brian Carlwell was still outside in the passenger side of the car—Smith said that Carlwell was dead. Witnesses said the Smith was so distraught over the thought of killing his friend that he broke a window and tried to harm himself and was restrained.

Top Facts about Jamar Smith

1. Jamar Smith is a professional basketball player from the United States.
2. He was born on April 30, 1987 in Peoria, Illinois.
3. Smith played college basketball at Illinois and Southern Indiana.
4. He has played professionally in Europe since 2010.
5. Smith’s most successful season was with Nanterre in France (2016-17).
6. He won the French League Cup with Nanterre in 2017.
7. Smith has also played for teams in Germany, Italy, Turkey and Israel.
8. His career high scoring game is 41 points (with Hapoel Jerusalem).
9. Smith has represented the USA at international tournaments (World University Games).
10. He currently plays for Pınar Karşıyaka in Turkey’s top league (BSL).

What happened to Jamar Smith?

The University of Illinois announced that Smith was permanently dismissed from the basketball program. Smith arranged with court officials to move to Evansville, Indiana where he completed the ordered rehab, worked in a grocery store, and entered the University of Southern Indiana.

How tall is Jamar Smith?

6′ 3″