Speaker 1: Well, I'm back to stephen A. Smith Show before we
Speaker 1: get on out of here. This special edition of the
Speaker 1: stephen A. Smith Shaw where it's me with the peeps
Speaker 1: talking to the people's via videos, via tweets, It's now
Speaker 1: going to be via phone calls. I got some calls
Speaker 1: on the line, and obviously I got my little nephew
Speaker 1: sitting next to me, so it's possible you might hear
Speaker 1: from him as well. I'll see if I'll allow it
Speaker 1: or not. It depends on how ridiculous he sounds. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to some of the phone calls before
Speaker 1: we get on out of here. Okay, let's go to
Speaker 1: Michael in Virginia, your Live with stephen A and his nephew.
Speaker 1: What's going on? Michael? How are you good?
Speaker 2: Sir? How are you talk to me?
Speaker 1: Talk to us?
Speaker 2: All?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: So you're in you're a coach of a three D
Speaker 2: three league. Who are you taking with your big three
Speaker 2: against Prime Lebron, James, Tequil O'Neill and Steph Curry.
Speaker 1: Lebron, Steph and Shaq those are your three and I
Speaker 1: gotta come up with a three to go against them.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, Okay, I'm gonna tell you Kevin Durant, Okay,
Speaker 1: I want to tell you Kevin Durant, Michael Jordan, Okay,
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan first, always Kevin Durant, my producer, almost just
Speaker 1: got his as fired. He got in my ear and
Speaker 1: talked to me about Hakim like I don't know, I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to decide between Queen and Wilt and all
Speaker 1: this stuff. He really really thinks, Shut the hell up,
Speaker 1: don't I want to hear another damn word from you?
Speaker 1: All right? Haquem the dream Olajuan between him and Kareem
Speaker 1: Abdul Jabbar. Hmm, I'm gonna say Haquem because Akeem has
Speaker 1: a psychological effect on Shaq as the one guy shack
Speaker 1: idolized as a big man. Those gonna be my throat.
Speaker 2: Who's gonna guard Curry?
Speaker 1: Well, the combination of Jordan and.
Speaker 2: Kd they can't handle him.
Speaker 1: Well, listen, kdu steph. Curtr's gonna move it out the ball.
Speaker 1: But when you put a taller guy on him, certainly
Speaker 1: nobody else height to guard him.
Speaker 3: I pretty much had the same team. I would swap
Speaker 3: Kyrie with Michael Jordan because he's more skilled I need,
Speaker 3: Like you heard me, I need talent first. He's a
Speaker 3: better matchup for Steph Currie. Jordan ain't never see that
Speaker 3: type of talent. You're gonna be disappointed.
Speaker 4: Oh that's your team, So you would say.
Speaker 1: So what you're saying to me is that thank you
Speaker 1: for the call, Michael. I appreciate it. You're telling me,
Speaker 1: Josh that you would swap out Michael Jordan's for kyriev.
Speaker 3: I would keep Kevin Durant, get a center for shock
Speaker 3: but one, and Kyrie Irving to be my one and
Speaker 3: match up with stuff. He shoots better than Jordan, better handle,
Speaker 3: and he finishes with both hands better. He's not a dunker,
Speaker 3: but Kyrie's more skilled three on three. We're not talking
Speaker 3: about Championship ten ten. Three on three Kyrie Irving taking
Speaker 3: them over. Jordan can't go.
Speaker 1: You can't go left, Mitchell in Minnesota, You Steve.
Speaker 5: And go ahead, Mitch, Thank Steve. And so I've got
Speaker 5: to fix for the n Season Tournament with the NBA
Speaker 5: that just ended. I liked the product. I don't have
Speaker 5: as so many complaints about it. I think the two
Speaker 5: primary issues facing the n Season Tournament are one the
Speaker 5: rest that you forego or lose by being good in
Speaker 5: the tournament, i e. Advancing to the finals. And secondarily,
Speaker 5: I think it's that it doesn't count for stats wins
Speaker 5: or losses. And my proposed solution to those two problems
Speaker 5: is that you cancel the games later in the season
Speaker 5: against the opponents you faced in the semi final or
Speaker 5: the final of the n season tournament. So in this case,
Speaker 5: the Bucks game in February against the Hawks get canceled,
Speaker 5: and the Bucks game against the Oklahoma City Thunder in
Speaker 5: March gets canceled. So then you you know, eliminate the
Speaker 5: issue of the games not counting for wins and losses
Speaker 5: because you apply it to the regular season and you
Speaker 5: give the team rest later in the season that they
Speaker 5: lost by being good at the end season tournament.
Speaker 1: I just don't think there's a nobody was looking for
Speaker 1: a solution to the nd season tournament. Everybody was looking
Speaker 1: to a solution for the season. And I think that
Speaker 1: when you talk about giving cats rest or what have you,
Speaker 1: I mean it's not a matter of rest as to
Speaker 1: why you know they they they're not putting forth a
Speaker 1: full throttled effort. They give effort when they're on a court.
Speaker 1: It's what they do when they're off the court. The
Speaker 1: more time they have off the court and away from
Speaker 1: the court, the more undisciplined they appear to be, which
Speaker 1: means the more lack of days ago thet come across
Speaker 1: when they're finally obligated to get on a basketball court.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if I agree with that, Mitchell.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. I'm not gonna waste more time
Speaker 1: on that. Let's go to Maddox in Illinois, your live
Speaker 1: of steven A. What's up, Maddox? How are you hey?
Speaker 2: Stephen A huge fan, by the way.
Speaker 1: Nephew, I'm here with my nephew. Say hello to Joshua.
Speaker 5: Hey, Joshua, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm good? Go ahead, okay.
Speaker 5: As you can play college basketball today, which team would
Speaker 5: you play for and why today?
Speaker 1: If I could play college basketball, I would say to you,
Speaker 1: I've always been a Duke North Carolina fan. I love
Speaker 1: the rivalry. I think it's the best rivalry in college basketball.
Speaker 1: But if I was a college basketball team to day,
Speaker 1: in terms of strictly their coaching and their style of play,
Speaker 1: it would be Kansas with Bill self. They always have athletes,
Speaker 1: They're always getting up and down the court, they're looking
Speaker 1: to make things happen. That would be my style of play.
Speaker 3: What about you, Josh, I'm going to rugs because I
Speaker 3: don't like the basketball. I want to be the best
Speaker 3: player and I'm going to be a bull hog. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna be star and that's how I was gonna go.
Speaker 3: Winning is not important, nonymore. It's about getting your stats
Speaker 3: to people that prospect like me.
Speaker 1: I swear to God, I should throw you off this
Speaker 1: damn show right now. I really can't believe you said
Speaker 1: somethingay shit like that, Marcus in New York City. You're
Speaker 1: live with Steven and go ahead?
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 1: Go ahead?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I just have thank for you, brother.
Speaker 4: I wanted to know if you because I know I
Speaker 4: heard your your what's it called? Your podcast this week
Speaker 4: about Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson. I just wanted to know,
Speaker 4: who do you think is really going to come out
Speaker 4: on top of this year, not in general, like as
Speaker 4: the dominant one to really like lead their team to
Speaker 4: the victory, because you know Lamar states fall short.
Speaker 1: I think I think I think whoever wins the super
Speaker 1: Bowl first, if you're talking about their careers, if you're
Speaker 1: talking about this season, I'm shocked at how great Buffalo
Speaker 1: has looked. It's a toss up between them and Baltimore.
Speaker 1: I don't trust Baltimore's defense, and I think in the
Speaker 1: case of Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, he's looked better
Speaker 1: in the postseason than Lamar Jackson has looked in the postseason.
Speaker 1: So I got to look at it from that standpoint.
Speaker 1: I know my man Cam Newton was talking about throw
Speaker 1: some respect on Lamar Jackson's name, but I am throwing respect.
Speaker 1: He's a two time league MVP. There's nine people that
Speaker 1: have preceded him in doing winning in such honors, and
Speaker 1: all of them have won Super Bowl Championships. But Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: So you got to be able to get that done.
Speaker 1: And Josh Allen is an absolute stud. Josh, I give
Speaker 1: you an opportunity to answer this question. Do you even
Speaker 1: know the answer to this question?
Speaker 3: I do know the answer to this question. I would
Speaker 3: actually go with Lamar Jackson because of what you just said.
Speaker 3: We didn't expect the Bills to do much, and I
Speaker 3: think that's what's going to drag into the playoff. They'll
Speaker 3: show their true clothes when the games matter.
Speaker 1: All Right, last call, Joe in New York City you
Speaker 1: live or Steven.
Speaker 5: They would tell me, Hey, Steven, I'm just calling to
Speaker 5: ask what you think about the jet situation and if
Speaker 5: you think Aaron Rodgers should come back next year.
Speaker 1: I think it's an atrocity. I think it's been very,
Speaker 1: very bad. I think that Aaron Rodgers should do everything
Speaker 1: he can to avoid going out like this. He's looked
Speaker 1: bad for the most part this year, even though he's
Speaker 1: in root to throw fowth for four thousand yards. The
Speaker 1: reality is is that he has now he's been a
Speaker 1: shell of himself. He hasn't been great, despite having Breese Hall,
Speaker 1: despite having Garrett Wilson, despite acquiring Davonte Adams, despite that
Speaker 1: defense supposedly being elite, and then we learned that it wasn't.
Speaker 1: Because they their head coach. They elevated their defensive coordinated
Speaker 1: into interim head coach status. That compromised their defensively and
Speaker 1: as a result, they haven't looked as good in the end,
Speaker 1: I think when you have this kind of a year,
Speaker 1: when you had the illustrious career that Aaron Rodgers has had,
Speaker 1: you don't want to go out like this. You don't
Speaker 1: want this to be the indelible mark you leave as
Speaker 1: a swan song to your career, so he has to
Speaker 1: come back. That's how I feel about the New York Jets.
Speaker 3: What do you say, Well, I had I had texted
Speaker 3: my uncle two years ago during the Aaron Rodgers game
Speaker 3: and told him Aaron Rodgers about to fall of a cliff.
Speaker 3: No Max, tell him and stuff. But that's what I said.
Speaker 3: Then he went on first take the next morning and
Speaker 3: called me an idiot and said he felt like slapping
Speaker 3: me upside my head. Now we hit.
Speaker 1: But you actually get You actually got me on it.
Speaker 1: Tell me when I'm right, you actually got. I mean, well,
Speaker 1: I mean dead clock is right twice a day. I
Speaker 1: mean it's a rare moment. But I give that to you.
Speaker 1: But at the time that you said that to me,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers didn't have a down. He had an MVP
Speaker 1: caliber year. But you said that he was gonna fall
Speaker 1: because you were a bit premature with it. But obviously
Speaker 1: he comes to the New York Jets this year and
Speaker 1: we see what happened.
Speaker 3: Y'all had him. You know, everybody had the Jets doing
Speaker 3: something like they're gonna be just like the giants here.
Speaker 1: We are so you're feeling good, a bunch of TV
Speaker 1: care and time and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. I got addictions.
Speaker 1: So you want to show show? What would you do
Speaker 1: with the show?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: You really not like me. I'm educated, your ass ain't.
Speaker 2: I just gotta be right.
Speaker 3: That's what they care about.
Speaker 1: I don't care about.
Speaker 3: Educated, but they're usually not right what I just say
Speaker 3: about Ian Rogers. So he's as done as they come.
Speaker 1: Exactly. You've been there for two hours and this first
Speaker 1: thing you said right all day? You give me anything
Speaker 1: for Christmas?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I did with your hoodie.
Speaker 4: Book.
Speaker 1: I'm I mean, I know it's after Christmas, but you
Speaker 1: didn't give me anything. You gave me some cheap hoodie.
Speaker 3: That hoodie is not cheap. The message is expensive.
Speaker 1: The messages be rich.
Speaker 3: We we dismiss I'll signed our contract. Twenty twenty five
Speaker 3: is our year.
Speaker 1: I told him, I ain't signing nothing until I disown you.