HOUSTON (AP) -Denver Nuggets guard J.R. Smith made a last-minute, “good-faith” payment to a Houston attorney before Wednesday’s game against the Rockets to stall a lawsuit filed against him.
Smith was named as the defendant in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Harris District Court by high-profile lawyer Rusty Hardin, a Rockets’ season ticket holder.
Hardin was hired to represent Smith in 2006, after Smith was accused of breaking a player’s jaw in a pick-up game at a Houston recreation center. That case was settled, but Hardin’s lawsuit claims Smith failed to pay $22.753.51 in legal fees.
Dale Jefferson, Hardin’s attorney, had threatened to serve Smith with legal papers before Wednesday’s game at the Toyota Center.
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