Who have you studied on defense to help model your game after? Dyson Daniels: I watched a lot of Marcus Smart when he won Defensive Player of the Year. In my early stages, when I was in New ...

Marcus Smart lived in a perfect world before being traded to the Washington Wizards. In the beginning stages of his NBA career, he was considered to be a valuable asset to teams looking to win a ...

"You play D the way it's supposed to (be played)," Gary Payton Sr. said to the Celtics guard in 2022. In 2022, when Marcus Smart—then with the Boston Celtics and now with the Memphis Grizzlies ...

One of this year's contenders for NBA Defensive Player of the Year is trying to follow in the footsteps of Marcus Smart. Smart laid out the blueprint for how a guard can win the DPOY trophy, and ...

BOSTON — Memphis Grizzlies point guard Marcus Smart hasn’t been with the Boston Celtics for over a year. The offseason trade that sent the nine-year Celtic out of Beantown in 2023 shocked fans ...