LAS VEGAS — The Dennis Smith Jr. the Nets are getting is an entirely different version than the one the Knicks saw. He entered the league — and the Garden — as an offensive-minded lottery pick.

Dennis Smith Jr. has transformed himself into a leader, a prominent voice within the Nets’ locker room and one of the only players on the roster Jacque Vaughn can depend on each night.

Dennis Schröder, Dennis Smith Jr. and Dorian Finney-Smith are done for the 2023-24 season, Nets interim head coach Kevin Ollie announced on Friday.

Dennis Smith Jr. says he’s a different player than the last time he played in New York. The Nets are counting on it. In parts of three seasons with the Knicks following the trade that sent ...

Dennis Smith, Jr. always wanted to play. Growing up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, he would spend most of his days out among the oak trees, playing football, baseball or basketball.

What surprised him, though, was Wojnarowski's since-deleted follow-up: "Dennis Smith Jr., is heading to the Raptors in the trade and Thad Young is coming to the Nets, sources tell ESPN." ...

Point guard Dennis Smith Jr. and the Mavericks had been working to accommodate a trade for him, but receiving equal value for a talented, former No. 9 overall pick just one year into his four-year ...

Portland Trail Blazers guard Dennis Smith Jr. shoots during the second half of a preseason NBA basketball game in Portland, Ore., Monday, Oct. 11, 2021. The Kings defeated the Trail Blazers 107-93.

Dennis Edward Smith was born Sept. 9, 1940, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. He was raised in the East 50s of Manhattan when it was an Irish and Italian neighborhood that inspired ...