Former NBA star Joe Smith is launching his two-week summer camp in Virginia Beach, teaching boys and girls ages 8-18 both ...

Joe Smith #8 of the Milwaukee Bucks smiles during the game against the Cleveland Cavaliers on March 16, 2005 at Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Getty Images.

Joe Smith #8 of the Milwaukee Bucks smiles during the game against the Cleveland Cavaliers on March 16, 2005 at Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Getty Images.

Lee Smith is 56 and lives in Ohio, where Joe was born and raised. Her son said she is doing fine at the moment. Her son also knows that, as an inherited disease, he could have Huntington’s too.

Joe Smith and Kisha Chavis – screenshot. Despite their issues (struggling with finances, mental health, and infidelity) over the years, a divorce lawyer is not an option for Chavis.

Outside the boxing ring, Joe Smith Jr. is also, well, a laborer. Like an actual laborer—a boxing throwback, a man with bricks in his hands who also holds actual bricks in his hand.

— -- Since turning pro in 2009, Joe Smith Jr. has fought in relative anonymity. A union man and laborer by trade, Smith became a bit of an attraction on small club shows in New York and ...