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If a celebrity has a Twitter page, they better watch what they tweet because everyone's a watching. Rising Denver Nuggets guard J.R. Smith found that out recently, when his tweets came under fire as possibly "gang related."
In some of his Twitter updates, the NBA baller would replace Cs with Ks, an act critics said could be associated with the Bloods.
Some of the tweets read like "Vegas here I kome!" and "Kant wait to get bak in the swing of things." After serving a 24-day sentence for a reckless driving charge that resulted in the death of his friend Andre Bell, Smith posted, "I just kame home. ... I kouldnt have done it with out yall."
Despite the pattern and his tattooed look, Smith denies the accusations out-right, saying he's never been in a gang and isn't from the hood.
"I'm not a 'hood guy," Smith said in response, according to AOL's BlackVoices. "I'm not a street guy. And I'm not a gang member."
"J.R. grew up in the woods of Millstone," his father, Earl, added. "There's no Bloods. There's no Crips. The only gangs were the deer."
The reports isn't what bothers Smith though. It's what his daughter will think in the future reading things like this about her dad.
"That's what hurts the most," Smith said. "When my daughter gets to be 16 or 17, and she has a paper to do in high school on her parents and she has to go back and look at these articles about me ... all these negative things."
Tweeting just isn't worth it for Smith, and has since deleted his Twitter account altogether.
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