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Speaker 1: more or less than twenty six and a half points
Speaker 1: for the Knicks. I'm going with more because there's no
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson. He's one of your top two offensive options.
Speaker 1: He's in the lineup brunts and is app and as
Speaker 1: a result, the Knicks are gonna have to rely on
Speaker 1: him more. Because Sacramento can't put up points, the New
Speaker 1: York Knicks is gonna have to score points to win
Speaker 1: this game, which means they're gonna have to go to
Speaker 1: Carl Anthony Towns often. He's gonna score more than twenty
Speaker 1: six and a half points unless he's resembling a construction
Speaker 1: worker and he's laying bricks. That's the only way he's
Speaker 1: not scoring more than twenty six and a half points
Speaker 1: in this particular game. Next up, will the New York
Speaker 1: Knicks Michel Bridges score more or less than eighteen points?
Speaker 1: I'm going with more as well, because he's gonna have
Speaker 1: free reign to shoot the ball. He's got a little
Speaker 1: accuracy to him. He's gonna score some points. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna score more in this game against Sacramento as well.
Speaker 1: Needless to say, we gotta get the Sacramento Kings guard
Speaker 1: slash forward DeMar DeRozan. Will he score more or less
Speaker 1: than twenty three and a half points. Mister mid range himself,
Speaker 1: who is an offensive firehouse when he wants to be
Speaker 1: going up against the New York Knicks team whose defense
Speaker 1: is suspect to say the least, I definitely think he's
Speaker 1: gonna score more than twenty three and a half points.
Speaker 1: And finally, will the Sacramento King Zach Levine scored more
Speaker 1: or less than twenty two and a half points. Boy
Speaker 1: do I hope this brother comes back in the slam
Speaker 1: dunk contest. He'll put on the shelf. But for now
Speaker 1: he's going against my New York Knicks, and I think again,
Speaker 1: because of the New York Knicks suspect defense, particularly against
Speaker 1: three point shooters, and he can hit some threes, I
Speaker 1: definitely see him scoring more than twenty two and a
Speaker 1: half points as well. So that's it. More for Karl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns, more for mikel Bridges, more for DeMar Deroza,
Speaker 1: and more for Zach Levine. It's more and more and
Speaker 1: more and more. We love that word when it comes
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Speaker 1: money in our pockets. Sent the NFL news percolating over
Speaker 1: the weekend, and of course a couple of thrilling NBA
Speaker 1: games that I certainly am going to touch on because
Speaker 1: it can manipulate standings and playoff seedings in the NBA Playoffs.
Speaker 1: I'll get into all of that, but that's after I
Speaker 1: address more of mister Lebron James and what we got into.
Speaker 1: I had a week in the sleep on some things.
Speaker 1: I got a lot of shit on my mind. Steven A.
Speaker 1: Smith Show in the house. Let's go.
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Speaker 1: in the NBA where the top two teams in the
Speaker 1: East and the West alstill litified. But which finals matchups
Speaker 1: should fans want to see? I'll get into all of
Speaker 1: that a little bit later after starting off with where
Speaker 1: I really want to start up, which is with a
Speaker 1: follow up of what happened last Thursday. Night in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles when Lebron James confronted me about his son Bronnie.
Speaker 1: I spoke about it last Friday on First Take and
Speaker 1: right here on this podcast as well, and obviously that
Speaker 1: made a lot of news because he approached me surprisingly
Speaker 1: and what have you in It took off from there.
Speaker 1: Just to remind everybody of what transpired. I was sitting
Speaker 1: quarts at I was a guest of Ari Emmanuel for
Speaker 1: William Morris Endeavor, their agency that represents me, one of
Speaker 1: the agency that represents me, of course, and he was
Speaker 1: with Larry David, the actor and producer from Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: We were all sitting together. I was standing up. It
Speaker 1: was the third quarter out of a time out. Lebron
Speaker 1: James rolled over on me and basically started speaking to me,
Speaker 1: getting in my face about stop effing with my son.
Speaker 1: That's myf and son. Stop effing with my son. And
Speaker 1: that was about the size of it. He didn't give
Speaker 1: me much of a chance to speak to respond. You
Speaker 1: heard me last week allude to this on several occasions
Speaker 1: where I said that wasn't a basketball player approaching me,
Speaker 1: that was a father. That was a father protecting his son.
Speaker 1: And that I understood it. It's a few days later
Speaker 1: my position has not changed in that regard. I do
Speaker 1: understand that, I truly truly do. But what I said
Speaker 1: at that particular moment in time, which was this past Friday,
Speaker 1: was that had I had an opportunity to speak to
Speaker 1: Lebron if the environment was conducive to that, not in
Speaker 1: the middle of a game, standing on the sideline, where
Speaker 1: my only recourse would be to make a scene by
Speaker 1: retaliating while a national audience was watching on TNT sitting
Speaker 1: courtside just a few feet away from the Lakers bench.
Speaker 1: I was not going to do that. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: forget the fact, or should it wait? Maybe we should
Speaker 1: have shouldn't forget the fact. That's up to you. But
Speaker 1: it was on the day where I was all over
Speaker 1: the news because news had percolated that I had reached
Speaker 1: the new contract extension with ESPN. It was that day.
Speaker 1: But that's neither here nor there. When that stuff happened,
Speaker 1: what I was going to say to Lebron James, which
Speaker 1: would have clearly made the situation worse, is what I
Speaker 1: said on national television Friday morning, when I spoke about
Speaker 1: it on first take on ESPN and in the aftermath
Speaker 1: right here on the stephen A. Smith Show, over the
Speaker 1: digital areas of YouTube, and of course iHeart Radio. I
Speaker 1: said that when I brought up Bronnie James and I
Speaker 1: was speaking about him the incident that clearly infuriated Lebron
Speaker 1: James so much. I wasn't talking about doubt about Bronie Jamsames.
Speaker 1: I was talking about you, Lebron James. And what threw
Speaker 1: me off was that Lebron James kept saying, stop shitting
Speaker 1: on my stun. That's my f and son. That's my
Speaker 1: f and Stun. Stopped shitting on my son. And that
Speaker 1: bothered me all week and long because I was trying
Speaker 1: to figure out when was I shitting on his son.
Speaker 1: And that's why I decided to come back and revisit
Speaker 1: this today, because something happened over the week and that
Speaker 1: seemed fairly innocuous to you all, but not to me.
Speaker 1: And I want you to see this clip right here
Speaker 1: and to see what they're saying. This is Lebron James
Speaker 1: talking to my ESPN and ABC colleague Richard Jefferson, his
Speaker 1: former teammate. They won a championship together in Cleveland Richard
Speaker 1: Jefferson now works for ESPN and ABC calling games, and
Speaker 1: Lebron was speaking to him prior to the game against
Speaker 1: Boston in Boston on Saturday night, and I would like
Speaker 1: you all to take a look at this and to
Speaker 1: see what they're saying. Lebron said to Richard Jefferson, take
Speaker 1: a look. So y'all saw that. So he was saying
Speaker 1: that what set him off is me saying, I'm pleading
Speaker 1: with you as a father, ladies and gentlemen. He's alluding
Speaker 1: to what I said on January twenty ninth, first on
Speaker 1: Take but now on here on this show. To stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith Show the same day, I addressed the topics on
Speaker 1: both platforms. Here's what I said on the stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith Show. Play this place with Lebron, the best of intentions,
Speaker 1: wonderful father by all accounts. I'm not casting any aspersions
Speaker 1: on him. I'm saying, that's your son, bro. You know
Speaker 1: the game of basketball. He ain't ready yet. Why put
Speaker 1: him in that position? You had your moment being on
Speaker 1: the court with him. Now that kid's gotta go earn
Speaker 1: his stripes, which I believe he will do. Watching him
Speaker 1: in the G League can't do this, can't continue to
Speaker 1: let us see what we've been seeing. And I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm questioning him as a father because I'm saying, YO,
Speaker 1: wrap your arms around him and say not now, not
Speaker 1: just yet. That's questioning somebody's fatherhood. There you have it.
Speaker 1: That's what Lebron James was talking about. And on first
Speaker 1: take that morning, I was saying, I'm pleading with Lebron James,
Speaker 1: stop it, stop this. Yet the Lebron James that approached
Speaker 1: me said I was shitting on his son. I'm perplexed
Speaker 1: at the moment because I don't believe I've ever done that.
Speaker 1: Had he said you shitting on me and you talking
Speaker 1: about me as a father, I would have known exactly
Speaker 1: what he was talking about, and maybe his best in
Speaker 1: the moment that I didn't recall all that that I didn't.
Speaker 1: I couldn't decipher what he was saying because I might
Speaker 1: have said what I was tempted to say, I was
Speaker 1: talking about you. We sit here more than a month later.
Speaker 1: I stand by what I said, just like I said
Speaker 1: on television Friday. Why do I stand on what I said?
Speaker 1: Why do I stand by what I said? Because it's
Speaker 1: important that all of you know the back history as
Speaker 1: it pertains to me. Now we're gonna get a little deep.
Speaker 1: When Bronnie James was in high school, I never went
Speaker 1: to see him play on purpose. I hinted that potentially
Speaker 1: going over to Sierra Canyon and watching him play, but
Speaker 1: I never went. And when I spoke about it on
Speaker 1: the air, I said, the kid, from what I'm being told,
Speaker 1: has potential. But we all know how great his father is,
Speaker 1: and we all know what a figure his father is,
Speaker 1: not just as a player, but in some people's eyes,
Speaker 1: as an activist, and in some people's eyes, you know,
Speaker 1: in a variety of other ways that can serve to
Speaker 1: not just galvanize, but polarize certain communities in this country.
Speaker 1: Folks are looking for an excuse. If I walk into
Speaker 1: an arena because I'm stephen A and to watch a
Speaker 1: basketball player that is the son of lebron James, I
Speaker 1: know that from the moment I depart from there, everyone
Speaker 1: wants to critique about his game, and I did not
Speaker 1: want to do that. So I never want and watched
Speaker 1: him play in high school out of respect and deference
Speaker 1: to the James family. He goes to college, he suffers
Speaker 1: the heart ailment I mean, my god, is scared to
Speaker 1: live in hell out of us. When we all heard
Speaker 1: the news that for a couple of seconds he wasn't responsive,
Speaker 1: You're like, oh my god, we hope he's okay. And
Speaker 1: I said, to recover from that, you can't judge him
Speaker 1: on what you see his first year in college because
Speaker 1: he's not one hundred percent healthy. That's not fair to him,
Speaker 1: because he's Lebron James son, and you're inviting additional scrutiny.
Speaker 1: So I never went to USC. I'm out here in
Speaker 1: LA all the time. I'm here now. I've had opportunities
Speaker 1: to go to USC to watch Bronnie James play, but
Speaker 1: I didn't think it would be fair to him and
Speaker 1: toil Lebron James, so I never went. I never went.
Speaker 1: Denny's entering the draft instead of staying in school, and
Speaker 1: when he decided to enter the draft and you had
Speaker 1: people speculating about what he wasn't it was a colleague
Speaker 1: of mine by the name of Kendrick Perkins, who went
Speaker 1: on national television as a former All American with Lebron
Speaker 1: James in the two thousand and three All American class,
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, who said in front of the
Speaker 1: cameras on the record, We've never seen a fourteen year
Speaker 1: old be named the McDonald's All American, bringing it to
Speaker 1: question of legitimacy of Brownie James being an All American.
Speaker 1: I didn't touch it. He gets drafted. But even while
Speaker 1: he's got drafted, we were told Golden State might have
Speaker 1: been interested, Phoenix might have been interested, The Clippers were interested.
Speaker 1: Boston might have benished it, but were dissuaded from grabbing
Speaker 1: him because Lebron James and Rich Paul and Clutch Sports
Speaker 1: and those guys that made it very, very clear he's
Speaker 1: going to be a Laker, and they honored those wishes.
Speaker 1: We didn't say anything about that opening night farther than
Speaker 1: Son King, Griffy Junior King, Griffy Senior attendance US who
Speaker 1: covered the league knows that people were gonna question the merit,
Speaker 1: which means that the league would be reluctant to embrace this,
Speaker 1: that the Lakers, the most story franchised in basketball anamals
Speaker 1: outside of the Boss the Celtics would be reluctant to
Speaker 1: embrace it, but everybody did, and so did the media.
Speaker 1: So did I. I was in attendance. I was standing
Speaker 1: up and I was clapping just like everybody else when
Speaker 1: he entered the game. And then ultimately the games were played,
Speaker 1: and all I said was he's doing great in the
Speaker 1: G League, but on this level, he's not ready yet.
Speaker 1: For a variety of reasons, don't do this. Why did
Speaker 1: I say, as a father, if it were a Kenyon
Speaker 1: Martin and his son, I wouldn't have said that. If
Speaker 1: it were a Carmelo Anthony and his son, I would
Speaker 1: not have said that. If it was a glam Big
Speaker 1: Dog Robinson and his son, I would not have said that.
Speaker 1: If it was Rick Barry and one of his sons,
Speaker 1: I would not have said that. I would not have
Speaker 1: said that about any of those folks because none of
Speaker 1: those folks had made headlines promoting their child to be
Speaker 1: in the NBA as a player or a star in
Speaker 1: the league. This son just came in there. Tim hard Wait,
Speaker 1: let me not forget him, Senior and Jr. That didn't happen.
Speaker 1: Those dudes played and performed and positioned themselves to be
Speaker 1: in that situation. That wasn't the case here. So for
Speaker 1: those including Lebron, that were caught up in me saying
Speaker 1: as a father, I'm saying as a father, you said,
Speaker 1: I want to play with my son in the NBA.
Speaker 1: You said, I don't care if you want me draft Brunnie.
Speaker 1: At this point, it's not about the money. I don't
Speaker 1: care where it is. I'll play there. I just want
Speaker 1: to have a year with my son. It was you
Speaker 1: that said, despite high school, despite the heart ailment, he's
Speaker 1: better than some of the players in the league. So
Speaker 1: when I was saying, as a dad, don't do it,
Speaker 1: I was just talking about Bronnie the player. I was
Speaker 1: talking about the dad saying the things that he was saying.
Speaker 1: That was only adding pressure to the sun. That's what
Speaker 1: I was doing. So I've never, ever, ever been about
Speaker 1: being critical of Bronnie. I've gone out of my way
Speaker 1: being who I am in the position that I am
Speaker 1: in to avoid even critiquing him for years out of
Speaker 1: respect for the James family. Rich Paul knows that Adam
Speaker 1: Meddilson knows that Maverick Carter knows that opposing agents and players,
Speaker 1: former and president, who would ask me why I wouldn't
Speaker 1: do it, know my posient. It was on the record,
Speaker 1: there clips of it on first take. That was my position.
Speaker 1: So when he said to me, stop shitting on my son.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what you talking about? But then something happened.
Speaker 1: Something happened, and the light bulb hit my ear and
Speaker 1: that was him with Richard Jefferson. I'll get to that
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Speaker 1: your game. Lebron James with Richard Jefferson. You saw the video.
Speaker 1: So when he sat up there and said, when I'm
Speaker 1: talking as a dad, right right, that's the only thing.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing I'm tripping. I don't give an
Speaker 1: f Once he talks about you, as I plead as
Speaker 1: a father, I can't. I can't. So it wasn't about Bronnie.
Speaker 1: It was about him. Those are his words. Once he
Speaker 1: said as a father, that was about him, which was
Speaker 1: my point. January twenty ninth, It's been about you. I
Speaker 1: don't want to have a critical word about Brownie James
Speaker 1: at this stage of his career. And I completely agree
Speaker 1: with Lebron's agent and the head of Clutchports, Rich Paul.
Speaker 1: We don't always agree. A matter of fact, most of
Speaker 1: the time we don't agree at all, but we talk
Speaker 1: and I respect the hell out of them. And he
Speaker 1: made very valid points. And I want to emphasize Rich's
Speaker 1: just class. And I got a lot of love for
Speaker 1: rich because he's just He's decent at his core, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna call you and talk to you man the man.
Speaker 1: He would have never did what lebron James did Thursday night.
Speaker 1: He never would have done that. But that's neither here
Speaker 1: nor there. But Rich Paul made a point that Bronni
Speaker 1: should be contextualized and presented better. I agree with him
Speaker 1: on that there's plenty of dudes in the NBA and
Speaker 1: who have been in the NBA over the years, that
Speaker 1: have been drafted in the second round who struggle initially
Speaker 1: before getting their bearings under them and ultimately elevating their
Speaker 1: level of play. He is absolutely right. The reason why
Speaker 1: it's different for Bronnie as opposed to others is because
Speaker 1: he's Lebron james Son. The nil deals, the four year,
Speaker 1: eight million dollar contract, all of these other things that
Speaker 1: come with it that doesn't happen for the average fifty
Speaker 1: fifth pick overall in the second round of an NBA draft.
Speaker 1: The fact of the matter is is that there's plenty
Speaker 1: of dudes that have coming in the second round and
Speaker 1: it takes them a couple of years in some cases
Speaker 1: longer to get their bearings under them. He is absolutely right.
Speaker 1: But having said all of that, that again buffers my point.
Speaker 1: It was never about Bronnie. I wouldn't do that to
Speaker 1: a kid. It was about his dad, and it wasn't
Speaker 1: about his dad even wanting him in the NBA. It's
Speaker 1: the things he said and the things he maneuvering and
Speaker 1: manipulated in order to get his son to wear the
Speaker 1: same uniform as him which brought that attention. And the
Speaker 1: reason why I'm bringing that up is because I want
Speaker 1: to get into a conversation about me because of how
Speaker 1: some folks have been attacking me over this but using
Speaker 1: this as an excuse to accuse me of hating on
Speaker 1: the Brothers. I'm sick of that shit. I'm not backing
Speaker 1: up from that anymore. I'm not taking it from people anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm not just a black man, I'm a brother. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna take this shit from people anymore. I'm going
Speaker 1: on Gilbert Arenas's podcast tomorrow, Gil's Arena with Rashan mccams
Speaker 1: with Kenyan, Martin, Swaggy, p Nick Young and the crew.
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I can't wait for that conversation. I'm
Speaker 1: not taking this shit no more from people. I've had
Speaker 1: it with this because it's insid it like this that
Speaker 1: people try to piggyback off of and they try to
Speaker 1: use it as an excuse to talk about me hating
Speaker 1: on brothers. Me the brother who is the ambassador for
Speaker 1: HBCU week that's generated millions in scholarship for thousands of kids.
Speaker 1: Me who's helped diversify ESPN with the opportunities as executive
Speaker 1: producer of First Take Black Folks, men and women, women, period,
Speaker 1: white as well. Any Minardi you can find me, Me
Speaker 1: who has worked in this business for thirty years. Think
Speaker 1: about what I know, Think about what I've seen, Think
Speaker 1: about how much incriminating stuff that I could say, Think
Speaker 1: about how many incriminating facts I have. And I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the game, but literally, these brothers act like if
Speaker 1: this were boxing and a black dude knocked another black
Speaker 1: dude out, and I talked about the black dude that
Speaker 1: got knocked out. It's black on black crime. But the
Speaker 1: brother that knocked him out, You're just gonna ignore the
Speaker 1: praise I gave him. Davontae Davis fights Lemon Roach last week.
Speaker 1: It was a majority draw because he took a knee.
Speaker 1: If the reford counted that Davonte Davis should have lost
Speaker 1: the fight. Me saying that means I'm hating on a brother.
Speaker 1: What the hell does this world come to? But this
Speaker 1: is the stuff that I'm being subjected to. I'm not
Speaker 1: taking it anymore. I'm not taking it anymore. I see
Speaker 1: players I ain't even mention their name is right now,
Speaker 1: I got plenty of time to do that. But Lebron
Speaker 1: is one of them. A week before he confronted me,
Speaker 1: remember he said, watching somebody be the face of the league.
Speaker 1: Where all these dudes do is go on there on
Speaker 1: the air in the mornings and shop on players. He
Speaker 1: was talking about me. Why because I got you number
Speaker 1: two all time. I think Lebron James is the greatest
Speaker 1: player in the history of man outside of Michael Jordan's.
Speaker 1: I don't have him as number one. Great father, great husband,
Speaker 1: great actor, great businessman, great family man, great philanthropists, great producer.
Speaker 1: What haven't I said? Four time champion, four time league MVP,
Speaker 1: all time leader scorer in NBA history right now, shot fire,
Speaker 1: first ballot Hall of Famer? What have I not said?
Speaker 1: Come on, man, But they've been talking these players, some
Speaker 1: of them, not most, not all, but a few. You
Speaker 1: know what they've been trying to do. Right in my opinion.
Speaker 1: What they've been trying to do is accuse me of
Speaker 1: selling out for the purposes of making it difficult for
Speaker 1: me to walk the streets as a black man amongst
Speaker 1: my people's treating me like I'm not down, And I
Speaker 1: got to come on here on a public platform and
Speaker 1: speak about the challenges and the trials and tribulations that
Speaker 1: I have had to endure to help us just because
Speaker 1: I'm critiquing your game, and too many of y'all have
Speaker 1: allowed them to get away with it. That's the real
Speaker 1: story here, because Lebron told Richard Jefferson, and by virtue
Speaker 1: of doing that, told all of y'all it wasn't about
Speaker 1: his son. It's about him, because I said, as a father,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna forget the quote you gave you. Don't
Speaker 1: forget how you were bloviating the bottom. You're gonna forget
Speaker 1: the fact that I said before he ever played the game.
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Speaker 1: back Ryan Clark from the pivot toward y'all. I needed
Speaker 1: y'all to hears from somebody for a couple of minutes. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: guess what he weighed on the incident? Now, Ryan Clark
Speaker 1: does Monday Night Football for ESPN, does first take, does
Speaker 1: get up? It's my brother, that's my dog. Love him
Speaker 1: to death. You understanding. He disagrees with me from time
Speaker 1: to time, but it's rare. That's my man. He has
Speaker 1: a son who played defensive back for the Notre Dame
Speaker 1: Fighting Irish. Listen to what Ryan Clauke had to say
Speaker 1: today on the Pivot podcast about this very incident we're
Speaker 1: talking about. Listen up.
Speaker 3: The first thing Jordan told me when he saw that,
Speaker 3: because we were together, he said, pop, I lose my shit.
Speaker 2: He said if I did that, if.
Speaker 3: Someone was talking about him and I did what Lebron
Speaker 3: James did, he would lose it. He said, you gotta
Speaker 3: let me be a man. And I've done that with
Speaker 3: Jordan in high school. I've done that with Jordan in college.
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that he's where Lebron is. But
Speaker 3: Lebron did what he needed to do. But what about
Speaker 3: Bronnie James. Think about what Lebron is saying, right, and
Speaker 3: I agree with this. Bronnie James for a fifty fifth
Speaker 3: overall pick for a guy who's played well in the
Speaker 3: G League and been on the bench and got you know,
Speaker 3: some minutes in the NBA, he is more negatively critiqued
Speaker 3: and analyzed than any player who would be picked in
Speaker 3: that position that does the job the way that he
Speaker 3: does it. But he's also praised more. He's also been
Speaker 3: drafted in the place that his resume probably didn't say
Speaker 3: he should have been drafted in. He's also benefited in
Speaker 3: nil when he only averaged four points a game. He
Speaker 3: has marketing and commercials and publicity and followings and get
Speaker 3: paid away from the court more than mac McClung, who
Speaker 3: then led the G League in scoring and won the
Speaker 3: Dunk Contest three times. Because you're Lebron James's son, So
Speaker 3: what does it do.
Speaker 1: To that narrative?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Right, How does Lebron running up on steven A help
Speaker 3: the narrative? It doesn't, because the narrative was he's there
Speaker 3: because of you. He was drafted in the place he
Speaker 3: wasn't supposed to be because of you. Now all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, we can't talk about him either. Now, imagine
Speaker 3: if LeVar Ball runs up on steven A. Imagine if
Speaker 3: Ti Murrant runs up on steven A. How classless we
Speaker 3: would say they are, how immature we would say they
Speaker 3: are Lebron James is a father doing the same thing
Speaker 3: for a professional basketball player, and I get it.
Speaker 1: I one hundred percent get it.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: Sometimes somebody does something in this on site, Stephen, They say,
Speaker 3: why you didn't call me?
Speaker 1: Mav got my number? Right, He say, Rich got my number.
Speaker 3: Because Lebron James saw him, and Lebron James wanted to
Speaker 3: make that point.
Speaker 2: He wanted to show the world.
Speaker 3: He wanted to show Steven A and he probably wanted
Speaker 3: to show Bronnie bro I got you, and I'll do
Speaker 3: it publicly so everybody sees it. The problem is this,
Speaker 3: You ain't run up on Skip all the years he
Speaker 3: was talking about you. You ain't run up on everybody
Speaker 3: else all that time he was talking about you. And
Speaker 3: you're gonna run up on everybody that says Bronnie James
Speaker 3: didn't deserve to be drafted where he was drafted at.
Speaker 3: You're gonna have to do a whole lot of damn fighting.
Speaker 3: Lebron James, more than any athlete I've ever seen, has
Speaker 3: shown a poise and composure when people are talking about
Speaker 3: him negatively like I've never seen. He's truly been an
Speaker 3: example to every athlete in the world. Who's harshly critiqued
Speaker 3: to his son. What you've told your son is even
Speaker 3: though I wasn't above reproach, even though no athlete that's
Speaker 3: ever played the game was above criticism, you are. And
Speaker 3: I showed you that by checking somebody because I felt
Speaker 3: like they talked about you. And that's to me where
Speaker 3: you got to separate father and you got to separate teammate.
Speaker 3: Because now, if I'm Bronnie James, I know my dad
Speaker 3: loves me right, but I hope because Lebron James a
Speaker 3: great dad that he asks, Bronnie.
Speaker 1: Are you okay with this?
Speaker 3: Because this is going to reflect on you more than
Speaker 3: it's gonna reflect on me.
Speaker 1: Absolutely brilliant commentary by Ryan Clark. Let me encapsulate in
Speaker 1: my way what he was saying. It's a worst reflection
Speaker 1: on Bronnie. Lebron rolling up on me like that potentially
Speaker 1: hurts Bronnie. I'm sure that wasn't his intent. But nevertheless,
Speaker 1: look at how people were talking about Brownie now. They
Speaker 1: weren't talking about him over the last few weeks. So
Speaker 1: we got that going on. Then we got the other
Speaker 1: part going on that Ryan brought up. He didn't run
Speaker 1: up wouldn't run up on somebody like skip whatever, And
Speaker 1: I'm good with that. I want to make sure that
Speaker 1: folks understand something and I will never forget it. Years ago,
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson was saying this, and he was doing it
Speaker 1: during an interview with ESPN's Jeremy Shapp, and Jeremy Shapp
Speaker 1: asked him, I don't forget. I don't recall the wording
Speaker 1: of the question, but he asked him essentially about how
Speaker 1: he might roll up on certain reporters or how he
Speaker 1: feels about them, particular if they're black compared to white,
Speaker 1: and Mike Tyson said, now you are who you are.
Speaker 1: He said, it's just that with you, pointing to the brother,
Speaker 1: he said, you should know better. And the reason that
Speaker 1: I bring that up is that one of the things
Speaker 1: that's almost never talked about is the expectations, particularly from
Speaker 1: reporters who are black, that you know, we're supposed to
Speaker 1: know better. Perhaps that's the case, but when do we
Speaker 1: get to do our jobs When you look at today's
Speaker 1: modern athlete and they want to call folks sellouts. And
Speaker 1: this is the only reason I'm bringing up the racial
Speaker 1: element is because cats come at us and they like
Speaker 1: Stephen a or somebodydos always shitting on the Brothers. I'm
Speaker 1: on the air two hours a day, ten hours a
Speaker 1: week live. That's just for First Take. It doesn't include
Speaker 1: Sports Center, it doesn't include NBA Countdown, it doesn't include
Speaker 1: frequent appearances on Get Up, it doesn't include this podcast.
Speaker 1: It doesn't include the inordinate amount of appearances that I
Speaker 1: make throughout the year beyond the world of sports. You
Speaker 1: can make a legitimate case that I am on the
Speaker 1: air more than anyone in this country. You can make
Speaker 1: that argument. I can speak ninety five ninety eight percent
Speaker 1: of the times positively. The crime is not that two
Speaker 1: to five percent of the times I might speak negatively
Speaker 1: that you have a problem with it. It's that these
Speaker 1: folks today have been allowed to use that two to
Speaker 1: five percent of the time to accuse me of hating
Speaker 1: and selling out my own to the point where it's
Speaker 1: supposed to be difficult for me to do my job.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let that happen. I'm not gonna let
Speaker 1: that happen. I'm gonna call it like I see it.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be compassion involved, there's gonna be tendencies of
Speaker 1: humanity involved. It's gonna be all of that. But the
Speaker 1: one thing you can rest assured is I'm gonna always
Speaker 1: do my job. And when it came to this particular
Speaker 1: incident with Lebron James, as I see him talking and
Speaker 1: talking and talking, the one thing that I asked Rich Paul,
Speaker 1: for give me grace on this one thing. Rich If
Speaker 1: Lebron said to you he is irate, he has pissed,
Speaker 1: he wants to see Stephen a face to face man
Speaker 1: the man. And you picked up the phone, Rich and
Speaker 1: you called me and you said, Lebron James wants to
Speaker 1: see me. What would I have said, Rich Paul said,
Speaker 1: you would have hanged You would have hung up the
Speaker 1: phone and you would have been on the next flight
Speaker 1: to la That is exactly true. That is exactly true.
Speaker 1: But Lebron James didn't do that because he didn't want to,
Speaker 1: because we don't have a relationship. Because I'm not about
Speaker 1: calling it like he wants me to see it. I'm
Speaker 1: about calling it like I see it. That is the
Speaker 1: way that I have been, That is the way that
Speaker 1: I am, and that is the way that I'm always
Speaker 1: going to be. This image of him tiring over me
Speaker 1: and oh, Steven aay is shook or whatever? What was
Speaker 1: he gonna do? Ladies and gentleman hit me while I'm
Speaker 1: standing courtside with the national cameras rolling. That wasn't gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I was taken aback by this notion that I was
Speaker 1: quote unquote shitting on his son. I didn't know such thing.
Speaker 1: I didn't know such thing, and I wouldn't because I'm
Speaker 1: the one that's been on the record stating for years
Speaker 1: that brother, that young brother's got a uphill climb, not
Speaker 1: just because he's Lebron james son, but because of the
Speaker 1: position Lebron James put him in by talking the way
Speaker 1: that he talked. Nobody else other than LeVar Ball was
Speaker 1: seen as a parent talking like that about their son's potential.
Speaker 1: But Lonzo was at UCLA as a starting point guard
Speaker 1: who was projected to be a top five lottery pick
Speaker 1: that ended up going number two overall to the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Lakers. There's a difference between that and what Bronnie
Speaker 1: James was walking into. And it's one thing for the
Speaker 1: greatness of Lebron James to make it tough. It's another
Speaker 1: thing entirely for his talking about Bronnie James to make
Speaker 1: it tougher. That's the only reason why I said as
Speaker 1: a father. Had he not said that or any of
Speaker 1: those things and his son just came into the league,
Speaker 1: I never would have said that. I said it because
Speaker 1: he said, as a dad, I want to play with
Speaker 1: my son in the NBA. He said, I think my
Speaker 1: son is better than some of the votes in the NBA.
Speaker 1: Right now, and go back and watch the tapes, you'll
Speaker 1: see me saying please don't do this. No no, no,
Speaker 1: no no, before he ever arrived, I said, because they're
Speaker 1: gonna hold onto these quotes, which they did. And in
Speaker 1: the end, all those people who were saying this stuff
Speaker 1: get to walk inside and outside the Crypto dot Com Arena,
Speaker 1: whatever other rena Lebron James is in. I show up
Speaker 1: and I'm the when that gets confronted for simply echoing
Speaker 1: what many many people were saying, not about Bronnie, about Lebron.
Speaker 1: But as the saying goes, I guess that's the price
Speaker 1: of being stephen A. I accepted. I've paid it, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pay it again and again and again, not
Speaker 1: just with Lebron James, but with anybody that comes down
Speaker 1: the pike. Be respectful, be humane, don't be disrespectful, don't
Speaker 1: overstep lines. But within the confines of my job, call
Speaker 1: it like I see it and believe it is. That
Speaker 1: is what I get paid to do. That is what
Speaker 1: I will always do. And if that means in the
Speaker 1: process Lebron and I never ever ever speak to one
Speaker 1: another again in life, I'm good with it totally, as
Speaker 1: I'm sure he is. Coming up. The Celtics versus the
Speaker 1: Thunder for the title? What the Cavaliers versus Lebron James
Speaker 1: and the Lakers in the NBA Finals? Which matchup? Should
Speaker 1: fans want to see? That? And a couple of other
Speaker 1: options I got for you up next. But first, the
Speaker 1: Stealers traded for DK Metcalfs, So now what are they
Speaker 1: gonna do at the quarterback position to keep up with
Speaker 1: the rest of the AFC North. We'll get into all
Speaker 1: of that next right here on the Stephen eight Smith Show.
Speaker 1: Don't go away, Welcome back to Steven Nate Smith Show.
Speaker 1: Let's get into the NFL free agent signing period that
Speaker 1: began today right well, A number of agreements for stars
Speaker 1: to remain with the teams over the week, and some
Speaker 1: of them you can see right here. But I want
Speaker 1: to address three moves in particular that caught my attention.
Speaker 1: We'll be getting Pittsburgh, where the Stillers traded for wide
Speaker 1: out DK Metcalf and agreed to a five year, one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million dollar extension. Metcalf will presumably be
Speaker 1: paid with fellow wide out George Pickens, who's eligible for
Speaker 1: an extension this offseason as he enters the last year
Speaker 1: of his rookie deal. Now the question is who'll be
Speaker 1: throwing them to football. Russell Wilson on Aaron Rodgers. Both
Speaker 1: could be viable options for the Pittsburgh Steelers. I would
Speaker 1: tell you, if you gotta choose between the two ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, you choose Russell Wilson. I'm not saying he's
Speaker 1: better than Aaron Rodgers, because I still think Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: even though he's not that bad man that he used
Speaker 1: to be, the brother through twenty eight touchdowns, just eleven
Speaker 1: and the septions passed with daarly four thousand yards with
Speaker 1: the New York just last year. Yes, they did lose
Speaker 1: six games, six fourth quarter leads, No doubt about that.
Speaker 1: Seven to one score games, no doubt about that. Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers can ball. I understand who he is, what he
Speaker 1: brings to the table. Here's the flip side. Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: plays few years with DK Metcalf. There's a familiarity there
Speaker 1: from their days in Seattle, and because of that, I
Speaker 1: think that goes a long way towards the Pittsburgh Steelers
Speaker 1: deciding to keep Russell Wilson in tot Now, he's gonna
Speaker 1: cost a pretty penny, and that's where it could be
Speaker 1: a bit problematic, because he's gonna want his money so
Speaker 1: as a market value to be anywhere from thirty seven
Speaker 1: to forty million for all we know, if not more.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if the Steelers should pay that. Okay,
Speaker 1: but you know what, what choice do you have. I mean,
Speaker 1: if it's really about the money, then you go get
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. But if the money is not an issue,
Speaker 1: then you keep Russell Wilson because DK Metcalf and Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson have a history with one another. Right now, let's
Speaker 1: get to Buffalo, where Josh Allen got paid again. The
Speaker 1: Bills and Allen agreed to a six year, three hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty million dollar extension for the reigning league MVP.
Speaker 1: The deal includes two hundred and fifty million dollars guaranteed
Speaker 1: to Allen, making it the largest guaranteed total ever given
Speaker 1: to an NFL player, surpassing the two hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: million of Browns guaranteed to quarterback due Sean Watson a
Speaker 1: few years ago. The extension takes Allen from the fourteenth
Speaker 1: highest average quarterback salary to todd for second at fifty
Speaker 1: five million dollars a year. Only Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott has the highest average annual salary at sixty million
Speaker 1: dollars a year, which is all you need to know
Speaker 1: to justify Joe Josh Allen's money. How to hell is
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott get paid more than him? How the hell
Speaker 1: is Dak Prescott still a highest made quarterback at football
Speaker 1: in terms of league average per year? Because remember five
Speaker 1: six years, three hundred and thirty million, that's an average
Speaker 1: of fifty five million of the year. Same as Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 1: same as Joe Burrow. Okay, same as same as those guys,
Speaker 1: along with Jordan Love. But if you are Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: you're sixty million dollars. The Dallas Cowboys with two player
Speaker 1: victories in ten years. It's paying his brother sixty million
Speaker 1: dollars annually, largest salary in the NFL. But here's what
Speaker 1: I do like, Josh Allen, hundred and fifty million guarantee,
Speaker 1: you the league MVP, You've been to a couple of
Speaker 1: AFC Championship games. Guess what you deserve that kind of paper. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's the highest in the league. Shouldn't be Dak Prescott's
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty one million guarantee. I know Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott can play. I know he's no scrub. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying the brother doesn't get to deserve to get paid.
Speaker 1: I'm saying somebody who has achieved so little in the
Speaker 1: postseason shouldn't have more a higher annual salary or more
Speaker 1: a guaranteed dollars than anybody else. So the fact that
Speaker 1: Josh Allen has now eclipsed him, I'm happy about that.
Speaker 1: I'm happy about that. Let me move on to Cleveland
Speaker 1: because this is where things get a bit hilarious, because listen,
Speaker 1: when you think about Cleveland and what has happened between
Speaker 1: them and Miles Garrett, Miles Garrett and the Browns. That is,
Speaker 1: after the team made in the highest paid non quarterback
Speaker 1: in the league. Let me tell you this, y'all. You
Speaker 1: might recall that Garrett wanted out of Cleveland last month
Speaker 1: by saying, quote, I had to say this show to y'all,
Speaker 1: this quotter, I that show y'all's quote. While I've loved
Speaker 1: calling Cleveland my home, my desire to win and compete
Speaker 1: on the biggest stages won't allow me to be complacent.
Speaker 1: The goal was never to go from Cleveland the Canton.
Speaker 1: It has always been to compete for and win a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. End quot end quote. Guess what, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: That came to an end on Sunday when the Browns
Speaker 1: gave him a record four year extension four hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty three and a half million dollars. The deal averages
Speaker 1: forty million dollars a year and includes a no trade clause.
Speaker 1: By the way, Garrett previously mentioned that he did not
Speaker 1: want to endure another rebuild with the Browns, who are
Speaker 1: coming off a three and fourteen season and hold the
Speaker 1: number two overall pick in this year's draft. Now, my
Speaker 1: man dan Oloski on the ESPN pointed out luck they
Speaker 1: either got a quarterback coming in or they gonna use
Speaker 1: the number two pick or somebody like Shador Sanders or
Speaker 1: cam Ward. So the future's right either way you slice it.
Speaker 1: If you had gone out and got Sam Donald, that
Speaker 1: ain't the answer. If you had brought in an agent
Speaker 1: Aaron Aaron Rodgers, that ain't the answer. If you draft
Speaker 1: Shadors Sanders or cam Ward, that's not the immediate answer.
Speaker 1: Rich makes Miles Garrett position kind of phony. Now, I
Speaker 1: ain't hating on the brother. He deserves every penny. He
Speaker 1: deserves every penny. The Brother's no joke. Double digit sacks
Speaker 1: every year since twenty eighteen, only two playoff appearances and
Speaker 1: one player victory in eight seasons. I get that part.
Speaker 1: But he's an absolute stud. He's arguably the best defensive
Speaker 1: player in football. The brother is sensational. There's no credit. Look,
Speaker 1: he's a mammoth of a man. No shade on him whatsoever.
Speaker 1: I'm just throwing shade on this quote about I didn't
Speaker 1: come to the NFL to get to cancer, and I
Speaker 1: came to compete for and win the Super Bowl. Can't
Speaker 1: do that with two playoff appearances in eight years. Do
Speaker 1: y'all know that the Cleveland Browns have never played in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Do you know they haven't been in
Speaker 1: an AFC championship game since nineteen eighty nine. It had
Speaker 1: been an AFC championship game in thirty six years. It's
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine. It's thirty six years ago, and this
Speaker 1: brother is talking about it's not about Canton. It's about
Speaker 1: compete for and playing in the Super Bowl. But you resigned.
Speaker 1: See what money does to people. See what money does.
Speaker 1: It makes the most excruciating situations seem easier to stomach.
Speaker 1: And in the case of Myles Garrett, that's a big
Speaker 1: stomach he'll need to have. He's got a lot of
Speaker 1: money to spend on food. You feel me, Way to go, bro,
Speaker 1: I am mad at you get your paper. Just say
Speaker 1: so next time instead of the whole song and dance
Speaker 1: about compete for the Super Bowl? Right? Thank you? Coming
Speaker 1: up the thunder and rolling in the Western Conference and
Speaker 1: the Cavaliers are running away in the East. But which
Speaker 1: matchup would you want to see in the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1: We'll get into all of that. Me and my nephew Josh.
Speaker 1: He's coming in the house. Can't wait to hear what
Speaker 1: he has to say. By the way, I know Sam
Speaker 1: Donald went to Seattle. I know Justin Fields went to
Speaker 1: the Jets. I don't care. That's why I didn't talk
Speaker 1: about that. But I care about my NBA basketball, especially
Speaker 1: since my nephew Josh is in the house. Hopefully he
Speaker 1: won't get on my damn nerves. Back with him to
Speaker 1: close out the show in a minute. What's up, everybody?
Speaker 1: Stephen A Smith here. Recently we made news because the
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Speaker 1: the Cevna Smith Show. The NBA Playoffs get underway next month,
Speaker 1: and I want to look ahead to the finals. Okay,
Speaker 1: but before I do that, if you listen to him,
Speaker 1: he'll tell you the world has been calling for him,
Speaker 1: the world has missed him. Everybody's got to see him.
Speaker 1: Nephew Josh is in the house. Ladies and gentlemen. What's
Speaker 1: up man? How you doing? Bro? What's going on?
Speaker 2: I'm great.
Speaker 4: Friday I had a bad day. I mean I got fired.
Speaker 4: I fired on Friday.
Speaker 1: You got fired? Yeah, even got fired?
Speaker 2: Well, I went to work.
Speaker 1: What you do?
Speaker 2: I went to work.
Speaker 4: I was I was drinking on a job, celebrating my contract.
Speaker 2: And how much you get? Five years? Fifty million? Was it?
Speaker 2: Five years?
Speaker 4: Fifty million, because I know you don't think the whole
Speaker 4: hundred million is yours.
Speaker 1: First of all, only a fool discusses their money.
Speaker 2: Oh what's out?
Speaker 1: Secondly, it ain't nearly as it ain't as much as
Speaker 1: the report say, number No, I got this my question,
Speaker 1: here's here's mine. Couldn't know you don't have half? What
Speaker 1: that you ain't my wife? I ain't marry you. We
Speaker 1: ain't getting divorced, you ain't getting ad What hell told
Speaker 1: you that? Number one?
Speaker 4: You meet your wife when you're an adult. We've been
Speaker 4: together since I'm saying box over here? Now, what were
Speaker 4: you saying?
Speaker 1: What the hell kind of hat you have on? Don't
Speaker 1: ask me for nothing? What do you have for? What
Speaker 1: do you have for people to ask? If anything?
Speaker 2: What do you have?
Speaker 4: First of all, Friday, your nephew Jason came and woke
Speaker 4: me up talking about we rich I'm like, we, I
Speaker 4: know me and your uncle Richmond. Why are you saying
Speaker 4: that he the one that let me know that we
Speaker 4: signed the contract? Crazy find out from a twelve year old?
Speaker 1: So let me ask you? So, so let me ask
Speaker 1: you this question because I'm curious, bro, how is it
Speaker 1: that you're my nephew. I want you to explain this
Speaker 1: logic to me. How is it that you're my nephew
Speaker 1: and you think because I have a little something, you
Speaker 1: automatically have something. But when it comes to your own son,
Speaker 1: you saying what you're talking about, you do so. In
Speaker 1: other words, your uncle has an obligation to you, but
Speaker 1: you don't have an obligation to your own son. Explain
Speaker 1: that logic.
Speaker 4: Because my son spends most of his time with his mother.
Speaker 4: I'll be with you making sure you're right. You seen me,
Speaker 4: I got here today on time. You always say when
Speaker 4: I'm late, let the world now go? Was early today?
Speaker 1: You on time? You on time for change. I give
Speaker 1: that to you. But back to my point, he's still
Speaker 1: your son, I mean, and when you're not with him,
Speaker 1: it's supposedly because you're working. Right, So since you out
Speaker 1: there working, because you do know, you're supposed to be
Speaker 1: responsible and take care of your responsibilities. Since you out
Speaker 1: there working, that's your son. Therefore you have more of
Speaker 1: an obligation to him than I do to you.
Speaker 4: Griff cut to the pictures, because I don't think he's
Speaker 4: understanding where I'm coming from.
Speaker 2: I've been around since day one. Look at me.
Speaker 4: That's to me last time I graduated, by the way,
Speaker 4: But it don't matter. That's us. That's when you had
Speaker 4: a little hand. It's a little foard. Look, don't nobody
Speaker 4: got these pictures but me? Sure I'm another one. Let
Speaker 4: me see smooth Stephen there.
Speaker 2: Look at Steve.
Speaker 4: Nad's headline. Look, I'm raising your value. They don't know
Speaker 4: you got this type of stuff, all white, slick. I
Speaker 4: was there for that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna kill you.
Speaker 2: They don't have barbecue you back now.
Speaker 1: I you understand what I'm going to do to.
Speaker 2: Lock is Stevie. You're a human being. People don't think
Speaker 2: you got kid pictures. I'm here now you go to
Speaker 2: gils Arena.
Speaker 4: And stuff like that. They need to know you was
Speaker 4: a kid at one point. People don't think you're a
Speaker 4: human being pushing sixty.
Speaker 1: Why they don't think? They don't think I'm a human
Speaker 1: being because I got a little nephew that's talking about
Speaker 1: robbing me all the damn tom taking half my stuff
Speaker 1: like he's my wife. You understand that, that's what I'm
Speaker 1: That's what that's the problem that I have. More so
Speaker 1: than anything like that. I can't believe you found those
Speaker 1: damn pictures. I'm going to kill you, I swear to you.
Speaker 1: When I get back home. You're gonna disappear. The world
Speaker 1: is gonna be acting where his nephew, Josh, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be You're gonna be buried someplace when I get through
Speaker 1: with your ass. Ooh, I'm gonna get you.
Speaker 4: There's a lot more picks in the cut, and they're
Speaker 4: gonna get released if I go missing.
Speaker 2: I watch Power and I set my scene. We were
Speaker 2: talking about today.
Speaker 1: And you set your seede. You set your seede, you
Speaker 1: set your scene. By the way, as an aside before
Speaker 1: we get into the finals, yo, bro, I was watching.
Speaker 1: I was watching Raising Kanan season permier Friday night. I like,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm for it. I'm for it. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you that right now. I like what I see. Do
Speaker 1: you like that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Raisin Kanan is probably my second favorite after a
Speaker 4: Regular Power.
Speaker 1: That Raise it all right, so we got something in comment.
Speaker 1: But see, I like Regular Power and then I like
Speaker 1: Ghosts with Tyreek right that That Forced with Tommy is
Speaker 1: good too. You know, I personally think they should be
Speaker 1: and I've been telling them this. I personally think they
Speaker 1: should come out with a political show with Lorenz Tate
Speaker 1: as the star of the show is the bad guy
Speaker 1: because I think him in power doing his thing. I
Speaker 1: think he's phenomenal, and I think that he should have
Speaker 1: his own series.
Speaker 2: When you think about that, I thought so too.
Speaker 4: Ahead of the force, I didn't really Tommy. Tommy's good,
Speaker 4: but I need Tommy with somebody else. Lawrence Tate is
Speaker 4: an A one actor and now the definitely worth.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you need him with someone else. I like
Speaker 1: those brothers he's with, though. I like those brothers. But
Speaker 1: but let me let me tell you this though that
Speaker 1: the yeah, yeah, that that that Latina he's got Tommy
Speaker 1: and for says that she's nice, she's nice, she's nice.
Speaker 2: I got.
Speaker 1: I gotta give credit with credits. Do let me move on,
Speaker 1: Let me move on, Let me move on. I got
Speaker 1: some NBA stuff that I was thinking about this over
Speaker 1: the weekend, and I said, let me ask Josh about this,
Speaker 1: because I know you watch them basketball a little bit.
Speaker 1: I gotta ask this question. I'm giving you four options. Right,
Speaker 1: you can take ratings, you could take basketball. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna categorize them as the best basketball matchup and the
Speaker 1: best ratings matchup. Right. You can put them in any
Speaker 1: categories you want. Lakers versus Boston Finals, Lakers versus Cleveland Finals,
Speaker 1: Boston versus OKC, or Cleveland versus is okase, give me
Speaker 1: one through four, your best your favorite to your least favorite.
Speaker 4: Well, number one would be Boston OKC. And I'm gonna
Speaker 4: tell you why. I want to see Jason Tatum kind
Speaker 4: of dominate the playoffs all over again because of how
Speaker 4: he was treated in the Olympics. And I also want
Speaker 4: to see the player, the forward on Serbia that had
Speaker 4: outmatched him so bad that he couldn't play one second
Speaker 4: in the Olympic game. I think that he's on the
Speaker 4: path to destruction as far as the league, and he's
Speaker 4: being disrespected all year. Y'all even have segments of how
Speaker 4: and why he's disrespected. It's time for him to come
Speaker 4: out and show that he could be the face.
Speaker 1: Okay. So you're saying the number one finals matchup you
Speaker 1: want to see is Boston versus Okay? See, okay, what's
Speaker 1: number two?
Speaker 4: Number two? Is not anybody that that that you had
Speaker 4: in there? Because I feel like you're forgetting about Steph Curry.
Speaker 2: Why isn't he Why isn't I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think. I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: think go to State, going to the finals.
Speaker 2: You don't think so? Now?
Speaker 1: No, No, I don't think they got the horses.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, Steph Curry has gotten Harrison Bonds a championship
Speaker 4: as a small forward, Kevin Durant, Kevin Durant, Kevin Durant,
Speaker 4: but Andrew Wiggins champion, and now he got Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 4: I have seen Jimmy Butler go with with Tyler Herro
Speaker 4: and Kyle Lowry. Now he got Steph Curry. You don't
Speaker 4: think they're gonna put run together?
Speaker 1: No, I don't think. I'm not saying they're not gonna
Speaker 1: put a run together. I'm saying that I don't think
Speaker 1: it's gonna get them to the finals. Who you got
Speaker 1: next after that?
Speaker 4: Cleveland and the Lakers. We all know why storyline stuff,
Speaker 4: you know what.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Lebron returning to cleaved, Lebron returning the even okay,
Speaker 1: and what you got us for.
Speaker 4: For OKC and against Donovan Mitchell and them. I would
Speaker 4: like to see Shaye against Donovan Mitchell. I'd be that's
Speaker 4: my c TV, that's a my s matchup.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me tell you why. I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: my order right now. Right, I'm gonna tell you why.
Speaker 1: First of all, when you think about Okac versus Cleveland,
Speaker 1: that's the best game of the regular season this year.
Speaker 1: That's far. When Okac went to Cleveland and Cleveland be there,
Speaker 1: it was the best game of the season. That was
Speaker 1: a thriller.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: But I will tell you what I want right now,
Speaker 1: Cleveland versus LA. Lebron returning to Cleveland to try to
Speaker 1: knock them off and prevent them from capturing the championship.
Speaker 1: I think that would be huge ratings, all right, So
Speaker 1: I would want that. That's number one. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Boston LA number two because that's just I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just epic, Yo, that's just epic. That's what See,
Speaker 1: that's you not knowing your history. Eighteen championships for Boss,
Speaker 1: the seventeen for the Los Angeles Lakers. The two of
Speaker 1: them combined to capture thirty five championships. That's forty five
Speaker 1: percent of the seventy eight championships that have been won
Speaker 1: in NBA history. See, you don't know this stuff, you
Speaker 1: young whippersnapper. This is why I'm here for you, Okay,
Speaker 1: So that would be number two on the list, Number
Speaker 1: three on the list. Number three on the list would
Speaker 1: be okay s versus Cleveland because of what we saw
Speaker 1: during the regular season, all right, And last would be
Speaker 1: okay see versus Boston. But I think those last two
Speaker 1: will both be that would be the last of the four.
Speaker 1: That'd be the last of four. That's where I'm.
Speaker 2: Coming from with You got the Lakers at the top
Speaker 2: of your list twice?
Speaker 1: Yeah, said, well, do you mean top of my list?
Speaker 4: You would rather see the Lakers in the finals? You
Speaker 4: just mentioned that two times.
Speaker 1: Right, Josh, Josh, Josh, Josh, Josh. Where do I want
Speaker 1: to be in June?
Speaker 2: Where do you what?
Speaker 1: Where do I want to be in LA?
Speaker 2: We all know that. Why why you basing what we
Speaker 2: gotta watch off? Where you want to be? Million? We
Speaker 2: can go to LA after.
Speaker 1: We don't We don't. We don't have that. We don't
Speaker 1: have that and and and the bottom line is that
Speaker 1: we got to go where the action is. So the
Speaker 1: point is wherever the games are is where I have
Speaker 1: to be at least this year. Now next year. You
Speaker 1: understand I may not be on the NBA like that
Speaker 1: because you know, we got Chuck and Shack and them
Speaker 1: coming to ESPN and stuff like that. So I ain't
Speaker 1: got to go to the finals like that. So I
Speaker 1: don't have to be there like that. Don't bother me, U.
Speaker 1: I'mer saying they want me, they want me to They don't,
Speaker 1: they don't. I'm good, But I'm just telling you this
Speaker 1: right now. I gotta be there this year because I'm
Speaker 1: covering the finals for ABC. So of course I'm gonna
Speaker 1: think about my life. Man, I don't if I don't
Speaker 1: have to travel to Oklahoma City, why would I want
Speaker 1: to do that? Why do I want to do that?
Speaker 1: I ain't even no direct flights there. Well, since you
Speaker 1: put the might have to fly in the Dallas to
Speaker 1: drive three hours.
Speaker 4: Since you put it that way, I want to see
Speaker 4: the leaguers in the in the in the finals two
Speaker 4: because we will be there.
Speaker 1: We're gonna you come in to the finals. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: why don't you tell an audience it doesn't happen unless
Speaker 1: I give you permission to go. Because you are the
Speaker 1: nephew and I am the uncle. Why don't you tell
Speaker 1: an audience that.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I got Genie Buss on Instagram and now,
Speaker 4: my my, I got a blue check, so I'd be
Speaker 4: dming celebrities and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: They be answering.
Speaker 1: So you in trouble, you know what, I would slap
Speaker 1: you upside your head for lying and playing around. If
Speaker 1: I didn't run into a couple of celebrities here in
Speaker 1: La just the other day that said you had you
Speaker 1: had spoken to them? You been you? You have been
Speaker 1: speaking to them. I know what's wrong with you.
Speaker 4: On March nineteenth, I bought a whole role at Glowriller's
Speaker 4: concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom with the company Cars. So
Speaker 4: when you see it on the invoice, don't text me
Speaker 4: about it. I told you ahead of time you can
Speaker 4: come too. It's eight tickets.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna fire your ass. You keep trying
Speaker 1: to spend my money. Tell you that right now.
Speaker 4: Can't Nephew meson the Gills Arena.
Speaker 1: That's it for this edition. That's Steven A. Smith show.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, say the last word. How a y'all?
Speaker 2: I have one more thing to touch on. So you're
Speaker 2: not gonna bring me with you on Gills Arena. But
Speaker 2: I do want them to know. They were all basketball players.
Speaker 4: So when they was on the interview to be drafted
Speaker 4: by a team that energy that they had during the interview.
Speaker 2: When you drop the.
Speaker 4: Street and you one hundred percent corporate because you're trying
Speaker 4: to get somebody's money, that's what you do.
Speaker 2: You do it all the time. You do it twenty
Speaker 2: four to seven. You live like you're on an interview.
Speaker 4: So when they act, when they call you whatever they
Speaker 4: call you, when they question your blackness and stuff like that,
Speaker 4: I'm here to bring it back because if you have
Speaker 4: any questions, as you can see, I'm as black as
Speaker 4: they come and as black as it gets.
Speaker 2: We from the same house. And if anybody has a
Speaker 2: a you know, a problem with you, they have a
Speaker 2: problem with.
Speaker 1: Me, well, loude enough, you come hold on for second here,
Speaker 1: did that's just hear my little nephew try to speak up.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna grab some tissue, but it ain't nothing that
Speaker 4: money stacks here.
Speaker 2: But I'm not gonna expose us like that. You gotta
Speaker 2: cut it.
Speaker 1: I gotta go. Good bye, y'all, goodbye, y'all. That's it
Speaker 1: for this edition is Stephen A. Smith shall talk to
Speaker 1: y'all a couple of days.
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