“If you look at Craig Smith, when he has been given the chance to perform, he performs,” said his agent Noah Lookofsky, president of All Pro Sports. “And then, the next night, he can walk out on the floor and because there’s not a defined role for him, they can give him five minutes and that’s it.”

“End of story. As his agent, no, I don’t feel he has a defined role on the team.”

This does not mean Smith wants to go elsewhere when he becomes a free agent on July 1. Quite the contrary.

He wants to stay with the Clippers, and is going to hire high-profile personal trainer Gunnar Peterson to take his conditioning to the next level, planning on working with him five days a week in the summer. Also included in the off-season regime is a change in eating habits.