Cleveland Cavaliers guard J.R. Smith said he knows he can't change the NBA's decision not to include him in the Foot Locker Three-Point Contest, but he hopes the league reconsiders how it chooses participants for future All-Star festivities. "Other than stats and analytics and everything they use on everything else, I hope they just use better judgment," Smith said Friday morning when asked what criteria should be weighed when making selections. Golden State's Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, J.J. Redick of the Los Angeles Clippers, Houston's James Harden, Milwaukee's Khris Middleton, Toronto's Kyle Lowry, Miami's Chris Bosh and Phoenix's Devin Booker were invited to participate in the event. Smith ranks 18th all-time in 3-pointers made with 1,584 as of Friday and is ninth among active players. Of the eight active players ahead of him on the all-time list, only two of them (Jamal Crawford and Vince Carter) have never been invited to the contest, like Smith, a 12-year veteran. Smith's 39.6 percent from 3 this season also ranks ahead of Bosh (36.6) and Harden (34.6), and his 109 made 3s are more than Bosh (78), Booker (53) and Middleton (100) each have. - See more at: http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/1...-guard-jr-smith-unhappy-all-star-weekend-snub
