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Speaker 1: lot of stuff to get into. But it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a relatively quick show today because I got to hit
Speaker 1: the road because since the Minnesota Timberwolves did what they did,
Speaker 1: I gotta end up back to OKC probably back here.
Speaker 1: Who the hell knows what's going to happen, But that's
Speaker 1: where we're going to get started, because we're talking about
Speaker 1: the NBA playoffs, specifically the Western Conference Finals, where the
Speaker 1: y Oklahoma City Thunder are just one game away, one
Speaker 1: went away for reaching the NBA Finals. That's because they
Speaker 1: took down to Minnesota Timberwolves one twenty eight to one
Speaker 1: twenty six last night in Game four to take a
Speaker 1: commanding three to one series lead. The league MVP himself
Speaker 1: shake Gil, Just Alexander and Jalen Williams led the way
Speaker 1: for the Thunder, both dropping playoff career highs of forty
Speaker 1: and thirty four points respectively. As for the Timberwolves, they
Speaker 1: struggled as both Anthony Edwarods and Julius Randall what hell
Speaker 1: to just twenty one points combined. Edwards was asked about
Speaker 1: their struggles in Game four, and I can't believe I'm
Speaker 1: hearing this, but listen to what he had to say.
Speaker 2: I don't look at it like I struggled or he struggled.
Speaker 1: They just.
Speaker 2: They had a good game plan making us get off
Speaker 2: the ball. Especially for me, man, it was super into gaps.
Speaker 2: I made the right play all night, So I don't
Speaker 2: really look at it like I struggled. I didn't get
Speaker 2: enough shots to say I struggled, So that's might that
Speaker 2: might be how you guys look at it, But yeah,
Speaker 2: I didn't struggle it. Oh, it just I made the
Speaker 2: right play.
Speaker 1: That's how I looked at it. I looked at it
Speaker 1: the struggling because if your aunt man Anthony Edwards forty
Speaker 1: one minutes, sixteen points, five of thirteen shooting from the field,
Speaker 1: which is just thirty nine percent, one of seven from
Speaker 1: three point range, just fourteen percent, five turnoffs, that's struggling.
Speaker 1: That's struggling. Now. I love me some aunt man, always have,
Speaker 1: and I think that he's a future face to this league.
Speaker 1: But let me be very very clear. When you are
Speaker 1: a superstar in this league, you do not go into
Speaker 1: a game for down two one knowing you have to
Speaker 1: avoid a three one series advantage to the opposition, and
Speaker 1: you go into this game and you attempt only two
Speaker 1: shots in the entire first half. He took one shot.
Speaker 1: His first shot was with thirty five seconds left in
Speaker 1: the first quarter. Come on, bro, that ain't what got
Speaker 1: game three. That ain't want Galvanaza troops and led to
Speaker 1: a forty plus point blow out of the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 1: You got to be more aggressive than that, Okay, And
Speaker 1: let's call it what it is. Jordan wentn't have took
Speaker 1: two shots and a half. Kobe Bryann would have done that.
Speaker 1: Doctor j wouldn't have done that. Magic Johnson wouldn't have
Speaker 1: done that. Le Bron wouldn't have done that. Come on, now,
Speaker 1: come on now, Lebron wouldn't have done that. Maybe d
Speaker 1: Wade wouldn't have done that. I'm just saying two shots
Speaker 1: and a half. No, that's not cutting it. And by
Speaker 1: the way, Shaye Gilgers Alexander was in the mister putting
Speaker 1: on a show forty ten and nine on the road
Speaker 1: in a game they needed to secure this series, essentially
Speaker 1: being up three to one. Shaan Gilgers Alexander forty ten
Speaker 1: and nine that brother us up the Special, the modern day,
Speaker 1: upgraded version of George Gervin, the iceman checking out. If
Speaker 1: you don't know your basketball history, I'm telling you he's
Speaker 1: that kind of a player. He is special, make no
Speaker 1: mistake about it. And then I'm looking at some other numbers.
Speaker 1: Did y'all know that despite the loss of timper Bowl
Speaker 1: shot the ball better than ok See fifty one percent.
Speaker 1: They shot forty four percent from three point range. They
Speaker 1: are rebounded OKC, scored more points in the paint, scored
Speaker 1: more points in transition and off second chance second chance opportunities.
Speaker 1: They had eight more assistant three more points off turnovers.
Speaker 1: They made six more free throws. Minnesota's bench outscored the
Speaker 1: DUNDA sixty four to twenty seven, and they still lost.
Speaker 1: They still lost. I love Julie rand I think he's
Speaker 1: a great guy. I think he's a talent, and he's
Speaker 1: a bulldog. I mean, put him down low. He's a
Speaker 1: man child. Five points on one of seven shooting bro
Speaker 1: five points. Horrible performance by Julius Randall nowhere around it
Speaker 1: because the minute he put the ball on the floor,
Speaker 1: they knew it. Because he's not a ball handler, so
Speaker 1: they chased him off the three point line and they
Speaker 1: made him put the ball on the floor and he
Speaker 1: was ill equipped to handle that. He looked like he
Speaker 1: was playing for the Knicks in the playoffs. And I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about the present day Nicks. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: when Julius Randa was there a few years back, when
Speaker 1: they had lost to Atlanta in the postseason and Julius
Speaker 1: Randal couldn't get anything right. That's how he looked last night.
Speaker 1: And this is the second time in four games, because
Speaker 1: Game two he was awful. Game four last night he
Speaker 1: was awful. Single digits in both games. And now the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Timberwolves on the break of elimination. Let me be
Speaker 1: very clear about what I'm trying to say. Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: ain't coming back to Minneapolis the season. This series is
Speaker 1: over tomorrow night, and okay, see, I can't imagine that
Speaker 1: Minnesota's gonna find a way to win this game. I
Speaker 1: just can't see it. Malahoma City, with that crowd, did
Speaker 1: y'all see the fans out there at three o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning where the Oklahoma City thunder landed back home?
Speaker 1: There was thousands waiting outside at three o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 1: and they hadn't even won the series yet. She does
Speaker 1: not look good for Minnesota. It does not look good.
Speaker 1: I just want to say that and get that out
Speaker 1: the way. I expect the series to end in five
Speaker 1: Wednesday night at OKC, where I will be. And if
Speaker 1: I look a little bit tired, Damn's because I'm a
Speaker 1: lot tired. I'm exhausted. You know, it's hard traveling back
Speaker 1: and forth for OKC and many and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: You don't catch many flights that way going in those
Speaker 1: areas of the country. I'm just telling you that right now.
Speaker 1: It's not easy, okay, and that stuff will drain you.
Speaker 1: But now I'm here for it. I'm here for it.
Speaker 1: I think the series ends Friday or Wednesday night in
Speaker 1: Game five, So let me transition to the East. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get to the Eastern Conference Finals, where the Knicks
Speaker 1: have a chance to steal home court advantage back from
Speaker 1: the Indiana Papers with a winternight in Indy New York.
Speaker 1: Staring back from twenty points down in Game three, but
Speaker 1: they're still down two to one in the series. Head
Speaker 1: coach Tom Thibodel switched up the lineup, starting Mitchell Robinson
Speaker 1: over Josh Hard. Of course we know that story. We'll
Speaker 1: see what he does tonight heading in to Game four.
Speaker 1: Here's my thing about the New York Knicks and this
Speaker 1: series against the Pacers. I want to state, as a
Speaker 1: New York Knicks fan, I'm not in some disgusting, delusional,
Speaker 1: nauseating fan base. I'm not that dude like the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboy fans are. I'm a realist. The Indiana Pacers are
Speaker 1: a better team than the New York Knicks. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say it again, the Indiana Pacers are a better team
Speaker 1: than the New York Knicks. The question is do they
Speaker 1: have the New York Knicks grit? Are they willing to
Speaker 1: grind grind away the New York Knicks do? Do they
Speaker 1: have anybody that could deal with Jayalen Brunson nee Smith
Speaker 1: was doing that, but he twisted his ankle, and by
Speaker 1: virtual of twisting his ankle, he was suspect throughout the
Speaker 1: rest of the game and when he ultimately returned back
Speaker 1: onto the court after departing for a few minutes. Jayden
Speaker 1: Brunton was in foul trouble through our Game three, but
Speaker 1: he came in and when it counted most he was
Speaker 1: able to close with a big time shot with over
Speaker 1: a minute with over a minute left, not to mention
Speaker 1: hitting all ten of his free throws. New York Knicks
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter hit fifteen to sixteen free throws,
Speaker 1: ten to ten at clutch time, six of six in
Speaker 1: the final twenty seconds. That's how they won this victory.
Speaker 1: Their offense wasn't sublime, it wasn't flawless. The Indiana Pacers,
Speaker 1: top to bottom, are a deeper team, and they're a
Speaker 1: better shooting team, and they're obviously better coach because as
Speaker 1: good as Tom Thibodeau is, he is no Rick Carlisle.
Speaker 1: But they got their work cut out for them. There's
Speaker 1: no way around it. Because the New York Knicks won't
Speaker 1: go away, and I believe they're not going away tonight.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna win tonight in Indy. I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna go back to the Guarden and win Game five,
Speaker 1: and that ultimately we're looking at a seven game series.
Speaker 1: That's what I call from day one. Now, let me
Speaker 1: say this because I am a diehard Knicks fan, and
Speaker 1: I do believe in Orange and Blue Sky's baby, and
Speaker 1: I know that we can tell y'all a irony of
Speaker 1: my situation. I'm just gonna put it out there for you.
Speaker 1: Do you know that orange and blue skies also apply
Speaker 1: to okay See? Those are their colors too, Arji Blue?
Speaker 1: You who would have thunk it? I mean on a
Speaker 1: year that I don't need this problem and the New
Speaker 1: York Knicks are as close to they have been in
Speaker 1: the quarter century of capturing the championship. Let me tell
Speaker 1: y'all something. There is no way in hell I believe
Speaker 1: the New York Knicks can beat the ol Gloma City Thunder.
Speaker 1: Can they beat Indiana? Yes? I don't believe they can
Speaker 1: beat oka See. And I actually think it would be
Speaker 1: a better finals if it's Indiana versus OKC, because both
Speaker 1: of them are deep, both of them are exceptionally coached.
Speaker 1: It's just that, okays the I'm with a superstar in
Speaker 1: Shae Butter as in Shae Gilgers Alexander. I gotta say it.
Speaker 1: I gotta say it because it's true. Hey set the truth.
Speaker 1: So this is where we are. But you gotta take
Speaker 1: it one series at a time. And I worry about
Speaker 1: the Knicks later and what they could do they get
Speaker 1: to Okaoma City later. For right now, I need them
Speaker 1: to beat the down the pacers, which they should be
Speaker 1: able to do. Tom there though, you dudes on this bench,
Speaker 1: I didn't even know Shaman was on the bench, angelon Wright,
Speaker 1: I didn't even know they were there. But putting them
Speaker 1: on the court and allowing them to defend Halliburton ninety
Speaker 1: four feet that caused some problems. Indiana and I shooting
Speaker 1: the ball well from three point range off from the field,
Speaker 1: that caused some problems. I kind of like this, and
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at it, and I'm saying to myself, Hey,
Speaker 1: let me tell y'all sign right now, New York Knick
Speaker 1: should be able to win this series six and one
Speaker 1: on the road this year, but three and five at
Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden. And then I'm looking at some of
Speaker 1: this other stuff to some of these other numbers that
Speaker 1: I needed to point out. Halliburton had twenty points and
Speaker 1: forty seven percent shooting in Game three. Indiana's starting five, however,
Speaker 1: they shot a combined four of twenty one from three
Speaker 1: in Game three. They're usually better than that. Nie Smith
Speaker 1: and them hall combined for just seventeen points of four
Speaker 1: to seventeen, shooting one of six from three in Game three,
Speaker 1: I don't expect that to continue. The New York think's
Speaker 1: gonna have a tough time tonight. It's gonna be real
Speaker 1: interesting to see what happens. Karl Anthony Towns was sensational
Speaker 1: on Game three, twenty points in the fourth quarter, but
Speaker 1: up until then he only had four points for the
Speaker 1: first three quarters. I'm looking at Mitchell Robinson. He shows
Speaker 1: up and throughout this series he's played twenty two first
Speaker 1: quarter minutes and it's had ten points, ten rebounds. The
Speaker 1: last three quarters of this series, he's played a grand
Speaker 1: total of fifty seven minutes and he's only scored four points,
Speaker 1: but with thirteen rebounds, so offensively, in terms of his productivity,
Speaker 1: he's relatively He's basically disappeared. I'm just looking at it,
Speaker 1: and I'm saying, hey, we gotta get it together. New
Speaker 1: York Knicks can win this game. They should win this game,
Speaker 1: but it ain't gonna be easy. And the quandary for
Speaker 1: me is, I'm a die hard Knicks fan. I love
Speaker 1: my New York Knicks. I know they can't beat Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1: Their defense is just too damn good. And one man
Speaker 1: in Bruntson and another dude in Karl Anthony Town's going
Speaker 1: up against a hard Stein and a chet Holger. There
Speaker 1: is no way in hell that this New York Knicks
Speaker 1: team is gonna be able to beat Oklahoma City. They're
Speaker 1: just too deep. They're just too deep, and they're too
Speaker 1: tenacious defensively. You need to be deep yourself and more
Speaker 1: potent offensively to be able to have a chance against
Speaker 1: an OKC team, which is Indiana. So Indiana could lose
Speaker 1: to the Knicks, but it'd be a better matchup than
Speaker 1: the Necks for OKC. Somebody got to say it. So
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that's the situation right now, going and
Speaker 1: going into these conference finals. One is postgame four. One
Speaker 1: is approaching the game for in the West and the East, respectively.
Speaker 1: But that's the nugget of material you need to know.
Speaker 1: I'll get into all of that a little bit later
Speaker 1: on in the week as the show progresses, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna move on from sports right now. Coming up, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump finally calls out Russian President Vladimir Putin over the
Speaker 1: war in Ukraine. What does it all mean. I'll get
Speaker 1: into that and then, but first, Caitlyn Clark will be
Speaker 1: out at least two weeks with a quad strain injury.
Speaker 1: What does that mean for the WNBA. I'll get into
Speaker 1: that and more next right here on the steven A.
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Speaker 1: bring your game. The New York Knicks snatched the Game
Speaker 1: three from the Indiana Paces to Stay Alive. Game four
Speaker 1: is tonight as they look to even up the series.
Speaker 1: So I'll be giving you my picks for tonight's game.
Speaker 1: First up, well, the Knicks Josh Hart scored more or
Speaker 1: less than eight and a half points. First of all,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna get more than eight and a
Speaker 1: half points because I think he's gonna hit a few
Speaker 1: jump shots, He's gonna have open opportunities, not to mention
Speaker 1: the fact that he's gonna crash the boards and he's
Speaker 1: gonna be irrelevant on the open court. Yes, I'm going
Speaker 1: with more than eight and a half points. Next up,
Speaker 1: will Miles McBride score more or less than four and
Speaker 1: a half points. I'm gonna say more to this as well.
Speaker 1: Out this brother is better than anybody in the New
Speaker 1: York Knicks and the plus minus category, while Michel Bridges
Speaker 1: is worse than anybody else on the Knicks in the
Speaker 1: plus minus category. Miles McBride has been a pleasant, a pleasant,
Speaker 1: pleasant surprise. I'm very very pleased with his development and growth.
Speaker 1: I'm going with more on this one as well. Next,
Speaker 1: with the Paces and drew them hard score more or
Speaker 1: less than eleven and a half points. I think he will.
Speaker 1: Here is why because Nie Smith is going to be out,
Speaker 1: and if he's not out definitively, he's definitely gonna be
Speaker 1: at least hobbled because he twisted his ankle and he's
Speaker 1: trying to recover from that. That's gonna give them hard
Speaker 1: more opportunities and he can shoot. I'm gonna say more
Speaker 1: than eleven and a half for him. And finally, will
Speaker 1: TJ McConnell score more or less than eight and a
Speaker 1: half points. He's the guy described as the little engine
Speaker 1: that could. Whatever he needs to do, he gets done.
Speaker 1: He's a workman. He finds a way to be productive
Speaker 1: and effective. I think he will in this game too.
Speaker 1: So the rehash that's more for Josh Hart, more on,
Speaker 1: Miles McBride, more on and Drew Nemhard and more on
Speaker 1: TJ McConnell is Stephen A. Smith giving it to you.
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Speaker 1: In case you didn't know, Welcome bout to Steven Nate
Speaker 1: Smith Show. Now let's get to the WNBA where the
Speaker 1: Indiana Fever announced that star Caitlin Clark will be out
Speaker 1: at least two weeks with a left quad strain. Clark
Speaker 1: reported some pain in her leg Saturday after the team's
Speaker 1: lost to the New York Liberty. She subsequently underwent an
Speaker 1: MRI and was diagnosed with the strain on Monday. Clarke
Speaker 1: was the WNBA's Rookie of the Year last season and
Speaker 1: her first team All WNBA selection. So far, she's averaging
Speaker 1: nineteen points in the league leading nine point three assists
Speaker 1: through four games this season. I could give a damn
Speaker 1: about that last part. I don't care about her leading
Speaker 1: the league and assists. I don't care about the points
Speaker 1: that she's averaging because I already know that the young
Speaker 1: lady canball. She is special. What I'm interested in is
Speaker 1: what somebody tweeted me and asked about earlier today that
Speaker 1: I want to show you right now. Put the sweet
Speaker 1: up please so our audience can see there at fourth
Speaker 1: Jen Bucci bu Cci right, Steven A. Smith. Can the
Speaker 1: w NBA keep itself afloat while CC, as in Kaitlyn
Speaker 1: Clark is out end quote? My answer would be yes,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna summarily dismiss the w NBA. It's growing
Speaker 1: popularity some of the athletes that they have in there.
Speaker 1: I mean Asia Wilson, come on now, I mean it
Speaker 1: really starts with her. We all know what she brings
Speaker 1: to the table, Brian and Stewart and others. We see
Speaker 1: what this league has available to itself and what it's maintained.
Speaker 1: We get that part. But I'm not going to ignore,
Speaker 1: nor am I gonna take my eyes off of what
Speaker 1: transpires with the w NBA over the next two weeks
Speaker 1: while Caitlyn Clark is out with the quad strain. And
Speaker 1: the reason why is because, let me tell you something
Speaker 1: right now, I'm not gonna go to word hate. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna be out there like RG three was saying
Speaker 1: that Angel Rees hates Caitlyn Clark, other players hate Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 1: But I will say this, I don't think it's specific
Speaker 1: about Caitlyn Clark. I think it's what Kaitlyn Clark represents.
Speaker 1: See it's stude, no fault of Kaitlyn Clark. Caitlyn Clark ball.
Speaker 1: She balled at Iowa in college. She's balled, She's been
Speaker 1: in the NBA. She came into the league last year
Speaker 1: with no break whatsoever. Between the college game of the
Speaker 1: pro game, and did a thing, ended up as an
Speaker 1: all start, ended up being fourth in the league in
Speaker 1: MVP voting, was the clear winner for Rookie of the Year,
Speaker 1: no competition whatsoever in that regard. When it was really
Speaker 1: all said and done, we know what she brings to
Speaker 1: the table. But people wanted to hate because why, you
Speaker 1: had a bunch of players in this league that watched
Speaker 1: this young white girl come along and take the league
Speaker 1: by storm, and they resented it because they saw or
Speaker 1: the marketing prowess that she had. They ignored the fact
Speaker 1: that you got chartered flights because of this girl. They
Speaker 1: ignored the fact that ratings were going through the roof
Speaker 1: because of this girl. Instead, they resented it because they said, Yo,
Speaker 1: we were doing stuff all before Caitlyn Clark got here,
Speaker 1: and y'all wasn't paying attention then, But now the young
Speaker 1: white girl comes along, and y'all want to sit up
Speaker 1: there and shower all of this praise and all of
Speaker 1: this attention that was earned before she ever came along.
Speaker 1: The resentment is understandable, but it's not about Caitlyn Clarke.
Speaker 1: It's about what she represents. My point is, grow up.
Speaker 1: Who cares if your magic and bird? That didn't stop
Speaker 1: Jordan from coming along and doing what he did over
Speaker 1: the years that followed. It didn't stopped the Vince Carters
Speaker 1: of the world, the Oversers of the world, the shaq
Speaker 1: Diesel Shaquille O'Neills of the world, the chemologic ones of
Speaker 1: the world, the Charles Barkley of the world. Not necessarily
Speaker 1: in that order, of course, because he came before all
Speaker 1: of those guys that I mentioned. How about Evince Carter,
Speaker 1: how about a Kobe Bryant. It didn't stop them. The
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is that it has to start somewhere,
Speaker 1: and if it starts somewhere, a rising tide lifts all boats.
Speaker 1: You jump on that tie, you jump on that boat,
Speaker 1: and elevate and use them to elevate your play or
Speaker 1: to elevate the attention you garner. It's very simple. But
Speaker 1: people didn't want to do that. There was a lot
Speaker 1: of people that didn't want to do that. Let's call
Speaker 1: it what it is. I ain't gonna mention no names,
Speaker 1: but you don't know, y'all know who they are. And
Speaker 1: they didn't want to do that. And I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about players and just players so about announcers two talk
Speaker 1: about pundits as well. There's a whole bunch of people
Speaker 1: that didn't want to give Kaitlyn Clark a shine. But
Speaker 1: let me go over some of these numbers just to
Speaker 1: remind y'all of what this young sister brought to the table.
Speaker 1: Because we all brothers from another mother and all of
Speaker 1: that other stuff and sisters from another mother and got that.
Speaker 1: That's why I said that, let's look at this. Became
Speaker 1: the first rookie with at least twenty five points, five assists,
Speaker 1: and five rebounds in a playoff game. That was Kitlin Clark.
Speaker 1: Became a fourth different rookie to play all forty minutes
Speaker 1: in a playoff game that was her. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: other things. Six different league television partners. This is last year.
Speaker 1: This is the last season, because this is Katelin Clark
Speaker 1: that we're talking about. Six different league television partners set
Speaker 1: viewership records this year, that year her rookie year for
Speaker 1: its highest viewed WNBA game. Do you know every one
Speaker 1: of those games including the Indiana fever? I mean, am
Speaker 1: I just making as a am I just making as
Speaker 1: a every one of the games, including the Indiana fever.
Speaker 1: That's a that's what you think, that's an accident. Thanks
Speaker 1: to Clark, Indiana led the league and attendance both at
Speaker 1: home and on the road. The Fever average seventeen thousand
Speaker 1: and thirty five fans at home and over fifteen thousand
Speaker 1: on the road. Four teams moved home games to bigger
Speaker 1: arenas when Indiana came to town to accommodate more fans. That's
Speaker 1: about Kaitlyn Clark. How do we know this? Attendance for
Speaker 1: the entire league was up nearly fifty percent last year
Speaker 1: according to data from across the Timeline, and Indiana League
Speaker 1: led all teams with an average attendance of seventeen thoy
Speaker 1: thirty five. That was up three hundred and nineteen percent
Speaker 1: from the year earlier, three hundred and nineteen percent three
Speaker 1: hundred and nineteen percent. All of the teams still grew
Speaker 1: by double digit percentages, so let's not forget that. But
Speaker 1: they didn't go by three hundred and nineteen percent. It
Speaker 1: was Caitlyn Clark, which means she's largely responsible for the
Speaker 1: overall league attendance records. Merchandise sales were also up four
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty percent for the WNBA according to Fanatics,
Speaker 1: and Clark was the top selling player and his fifth
Speaker 1: among athletes across all sports. Fanatics also reported a one
Speaker 1: hundred increase in sales for WNBA specific merchandise. It started
Speaker 1: with Kaitlyn Clark. And so now that we know all
Speaker 1: of this, and we've known that for months now, we
Speaker 1: get to turn around and look and see what exactly
Speaker 1: is it that the league will do, knowing that she's
Speaker 1: out for the next two weeks. I'm not saying I
Speaker 1: know for sure what's gonna happen, but I have an idea.
Speaker 1: We shall see. We'll definitely be watching coming up. President
Speaker 1: Donald Trump finally calls out Vladimir Putlin over the war
Speaker 1: in Ukraine, and then some also Jake Tapper and that
Speaker 1: new book out Original Sin. I'll tell you how all
Speaker 1: of that comes into play with exactly what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: talk about with Donald Trump and how that people end
Speaker 1: up getting screwed over. Are the American people? What on
Speaker 1: earth does one have to do with the other. I'll explain.
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Speaker 1: to the stephen A. Smith Shop. Let me get to Washington,
Speaker 1: where President Donald Trump is threatening new sanctions on Russia
Speaker 1: in the coming days as he vents frustration at Russian
Speaker 1: President Vladimir Putin after Putin launched a new missile and
Speaker 1: drone attack on Ukraine over the weekend that left many dead.
Speaker 1: Here's what President Trump had to say about Putin yesterday
Speaker 1: when asked about the latest assault on Ukraine. Take a listener.
Speaker 3: I'm not happy with what Putin's doing. He's killing a
Speaker 3: lot of people. And I don't know what the hell
Speaker 3: happened to Putin. I've known him a long time, always
Speaker 3: gotten along with him. But he's sending rockets into cities
Speaker 3: and killing people, and I don't like it at all.
Speaker 1: Okay, And here's what Trump posted today about Vladimir Putin
Speaker 1: on Truth Social, his social media outlet. Quote. What Vladimir
Speaker 1: Putin doesn't realize is that if it weren't for me,
Speaker 1: lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia.
Speaker 1: And I'm mean really bad. He's playing with fire. End quote. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Democratic and Republican lawmakers are lobbying Trump to significantly ratchet
Speaker 1: up you as sanctions after the week in attacks. However,
Speaker 1: Trump has said privately he is concerned that new sanctions
Speaker 1: could push Russia away from peace talks. End quote. First
Speaker 1: of all, let's call us what it is. That's an
Speaker 1: utterly ridiculous statement by President of the United States. You're
Speaker 1: concerned about antagonizing Vladimir Putin and him becoming a bit
Speaker 1: more volatile. What are you talking about? What else does
Speaker 1: he have to do? What else does he have to do?
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, let's I'm not a historian, and I'm
Speaker 1: not asking you to look at me as an historian,
Speaker 1: But can we be honest and forthcoming about what has
Speaker 1: been transpiring over the last couple of decades or so
Speaker 1: at the very least, you gotta remember since the dissolution
Speaker 1: of Russia, of the old Soviet Union, rather in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety one, after Reagan told Gorbachev tear down that wall
Speaker 1: and all of this other stuff. Remember, the Soviet Union
Speaker 1: has never been what it once was, and that pained
Speaker 1: very very few people on the planet, more so lan
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin. It's been his mission for the rest of
Speaker 1: his life since that period of time, to reclaim territory
Speaker 1: in land that he believes belongs to the Soviet Union.
Speaker 1: I mean, I read some of these articles around here
Speaker 1: just from an historical perspective about the kind of stuff
Speaker 1: this man is fixated on and it gets pretty damn scary.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you remember, remember when Bill o'raleigh told
Speaker 1: me to look up the Yolta Conference and he talked
Speaker 1: about Harry Truman, he talked about the United States, and
Speaker 1: you talk about Winston Churchill and Great Britain, and he
Speaker 1: talked about Stalin, Joseph Stalin and Russia. How ultimately they
Speaker 1: were supposed to agree upon some things in the aftermath
Speaker 1: of World War Two, and that Stalin essentially renegged and
Speaker 1: ignored it. They thought that it was going to be
Speaker 1: about democracy. They thought that it was going to be
Speaker 1: about the three of them coming together and positioning themselves
Speaker 1: to police the world in a relatively democratic fashion. But
Speaker 1: Stalin wasn't going for it because he had his eyes
Speaker 1: set and his heart fixated. And it's so fixated on
Speaker 1: the Soviet Union, on Russian dominance, not just in their
Speaker 1: parts but throughout Europe. When we fast forward all of
Speaker 1: these years later, what does it look like with Putin
Speaker 1: right now? Except in Stalin, one could argue it was greed.
Speaker 1: In the case of Putin, he has the mentality this
Speaker 1: is stuff that belongs to us, just like when we
Speaker 1: took off CRIMEA in twenty fourteen. We believe that's ours.
Speaker 1: Ukraine is ours, Poland is ours, Feeling is ours, fourteen
Speaker 1: other different countries ours. We believe that belongs to us.
Speaker 1: And we're coming back to reclaiming everything that he's doing. Said,
Speaker 1: so we don't have to worry about his words. We're
Speaker 1: looking at his action. Since we're looking at his actions.
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, it doesn't help when we
Speaker 1: see our president in the old office in the White House,
Speaker 1: with Ukrainian President Zalinski acting like this. Don't remember this.
Speaker 1: Check this out during the war. Everybody has problems, even you,
Speaker 1: but you have nice ocean and don't feel now, but
Speaker 1: you will feel it in the fusion. God blessed. I'm blessed.
Speaker 1: You're I'm blessed. You're not. Don't tell us what we're
Speaker 1: gonna feel. We're trying to solve a problem. Don't tell
Speaker 1: us what we're going to feel. I'm not telling you
Speaker 1: because you're in no position to dictate that.
Speaker 3: Remember you're in no position to dictate what we're gonna feel.
Speaker 1: We're gonna feel very good, feel influenced.
Speaker 3: We're gonna feel very good and very strong. It will
Speaker 3: feel influenced you're right now, not in a very good position.
Speaker 1: You've allowed you in a very bad position the very
Speaker 1: beginning of the war. Not in a good position.
Speaker 3: You don't have the cards right now with us. You
Speaker 3: start having right now, you're gambling with the lives and
Speaker 3: millions of people you've seen.
Speaker 1: You're gambling with World War three.
Speaker 3: You're gambling with World War three.
Speaker 1: You see how we got distracted. We got distracted with
Speaker 1: the rhetoric that Trump was spewing, the fact that here
Speaker 1: was a president of a nation at war, and we
Speaker 1: were focused on the fact that he didn't say thank
Speaker 1: you enough, the fact that he was dressed in military garble,
Speaker 1: in an outfit as opposed to Remember when you saw
Speaker 1: GOP politicians talking about how did this man show up
Speaker 1: in the Oval office and not even have one a
Speaker 1: suit and a tie? Remember that while his country was
Speaker 1: being bombed. Remember that? And then we're talking about Trump
Speaker 1: and we're saying, oh, my goodness, there was or the
Speaker 1: lack thereof, did you have to have this man on
Speaker 1: national TV embarrassing him like that. We're caught up in
Speaker 1: the wrong kind of stuff. Where our focus needs to
Speaker 1: be is on Poland. I'm reading from some articles here,
Speaker 1: Russia's territory is greatly diminished from the time when Moscow
Speaker 1: controlled one sixth of the planet's surface, including Finland, Poland,
Speaker 1: and fourteen of the currently independent countries. This is based
Speaker 1: on an article in the Wall Street Journal just from
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, June of twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: to be exact. Are we not paying attention? Do we
Speaker 1: not see what's going on here? The man's not playing
Speaker 1: fourteen independent countries, press Poland, Press, Finland, Okay, Estonia, throw
Speaker 1: them in there. Montenegro who Trump lamented, should American soldiers
Speaker 1: be dying over something? Over fights in Montenegro? That's what
Speaker 1: he said in twenty eighteen, if I remember correctly, this
Speaker 1: is what the former president of forty fifth president who's
Speaker 1: not a forty seventh president said at that particular moment
Speaker 1: in time. And we're focused on what exactly words, verbiage, tweets,
Speaker 1: how somebody's dressed, whether or not they said thank you
Speaker 1: enough and showed enough gratitude. We're talking about trying to
Speaker 1: prevent World War three? And why am I concerned about
Speaker 1: it to that deep of a level because we keep
Speaker 1: lamenting the state, or we keep saying that Russia's lamenting
Speaker 1: the state of its armed forces, the state of its military.
Speaker 1: And yet when Trump opens his mouth and he says
Speaker 1: there's a hefty price that they could play, they could pay.
Speaker 1: What happens. Putin goes out there and drops a bunch
Speaker 1: of bombs and a bunch of drones on them, more
Speaker 1: so than he has in the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: And then Trump says, I don't know what's wrong with him.
Speaker 1: He seems to have gone crazy. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going like, you're surprised. But that's not what lindsay grahmm
Speaker 1: and those guys are saying. A matter of fact, reading
Speaker 1: from an article in a Wall Street Journal just a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago. I'm here reading, and I'll read
Speaker 1: your graph here. Good news is that US saidate still
Speaker 1: has some genuine realists when it comes to Russia. As
Speaker 1: gop Saidator Lindsey Graham writes in a letter nearby, he
Speaker 1: has eighty two co sponsors on a bill that would
Speaker 1: hit countries that buy Russian oil and gas with tariff
Speaker 1: sanctions energy sales of mister Putin's financial lifeline. President Biden
Speaker 1: refused to apply these so called secondary sanctions and mister
Speaker 1: Trump can't make up his mind what the hell is
Speaker 1: going on? So we got one hundred senators, we got
Speaker 1: a vast majority of folks in the House that believe
Speaker 1: that Russia is a legitimate threat, that we've all perceived
Speaker 1: them as being all of our lives. But somehow, some
Speaker 1: way Trump thinks differently. Why why for what? And by
Speaker 1: the way, I'm not here just to point to figure
Speaker 1: at Donald Trump. Like they said, President Biden at the
Speaker 1: time could have done something about all of this, but
Speaker 1: he refused to apply these so called secondary stations. Why not?
Speaker 1: See this is why relationships with other nations or with
Speaker 1: specific dignitaries should have a proverbial eyebrows raised because it
Speaker 1: smells what's up with Trump? And potent? Why are you
Speaker 1: not dealing with this man? Why are you letting him
Speaker 1: do this to Ukraine knowing that it has most of
Speaker 1: Europe's scared shitless? Because you see, if you are the
Speaker 1: United States of America and you decide not to provide
Speaker 1: Kiev with happy weapons that could deter Russia's advancement, where
Speaker 1: does that leave us? These are legitimate questions, But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you what the most sickening part about this
Speaker 1: is And by the way, don't listen. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to point the figure. Just a Trump two thousand and eight,
Speaker 1: Russia invaged Georgia. They weren't sanctioned in any serious way
Speaker 1: at the time, and I was followed by President Barack
Speaker 1: Obama's at tenth at a reset with Moscow in twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: intervention in don Bass, Ukraine and annexation of Crimea during
Speaker 1: the miss Obama's second term prompted only half hearted sanctions.
Speaker 1: Reading from that same article Wall Street Journal, until last fight,
Speaker 1: if your Germany had pushed the nord Stream eight of
Speaker 1: the nord Stream two pipeline project that would have allowed
Speaker 1: Russia's gas exports to bypass Ukraine. Up until April, the
Speaker 1: US and its allies refused to provide Keith with the
Speaker 1: heavy weapons that could have deterred this year's war. Where
Speaker 1: does that leave us? Because I'm seeing a lot of
Speaker 1: people scared because they know that Putin's not playing and
Speaker 1: if Putin gets a little bit, he's gonna keep going.
Speaker 1: He's gonna keep going, and he's gonna keep going. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what you scare us as American citizens,
Speaker 1: who are we to believe, because I don't know if
Speaker 1: y'all heard about that book that's come out, Okay, Original
Speaker 1: Sin Jake Tapper from CNN and Alex Thompson and its
Speaker 1: Original Sin, and it's basically highlighting and detailing Biden's deterioration.
Speaker 1: For lack of a better word, we saw it, we
Speaker 1: spoke on it. I was vilified for it a year
Speaker 1: before the debate last June twenty seventh, when Biden on
Speaker 1: stage against Donald Trump. I called it out a year
Speaker 1: before that, as in two years ago. Yo, he's not
Speaker 1: gonna get to the Democratic National Convention. He does not
Speaker 1: need to be the Democratic nominee. And I was excoriated.
Speaker 1: I was raised through the coast. Who the hell are you?
Speaker 1: What do you know? Your novice? Shut the hell up,
Speaker 1: stick to sports all of this stuff. I had two eyes.
Speaker 1: I could see. And if there's one thing I'm pretty
Speaker 1: good at, it's witnessing a deterioration taking place before my
Speaker 1: very odds, because I'm do it with athletes all the time.
Speaker 1: So if i can see it in them, I'm damnu
Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to see it in an eighty
Speaker 1: year old president. That Democrats was in the state Capitol
Speaker 1: chanting four more years four that happened, And why do
Speaker 1: I bring that up? And what's the relevancy to all
Speaker 1: of that. I'll tell you what the relevancy is. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't feel so vexed, I wouldn't feel so insecure, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't feel so nervous if I thought we had a
Speaker 1: government that was committed to doing what's right, instead of
Speaker 1: supporting somebody for their own purposes or going against them
Speaker 1: for their own individual purposes, as opposed to be an
Speaker 1: objective and neutral enough to just give us the information
Speaker 1: original sin. Supposedly, it's highlighting how their information that was
Speaker 1: needed to be given wasn't given. That there was a
Speaker 1: concerted effort by members of the White House and beyond
Speaker 1: to hide the debilitating circumstances surrounding then President Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: Now I could speak on it myself, because obviously it's
Speaker 1: an egregious thing that transpired, and I think there's a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of people that should be a shaded of themselves.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to talk to Jake Tappler, Jake Tapper,
Speaker 1: and Alex Thompson because I want to know personally. I
Speaker 1: want to know personally what role Jake Tapple played and
Speaker 1: not reporting on certain information. I told you I watched it.
Speaker 1: If the interview with Megan Kelly from start to finish,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, she was sensational. She did a hell
Speaker 1: of a job. My point to you is that we
Speaker 1: saw it. How did Jake Tapper not see it? And
Speaker 1: as he continues to speak about all of this, where's
Speaker 1: his miacoppa? Because I don't see it. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: it yet. I'm gonna be real interested in asking him
Speaker 1: about that when he comes on this show. The hatred
Speaker 1: for Trump was so deep that folks didn't want to
Speaker 1: report on his competition in any kind of negative way,
Speaker 1: then if the hatred would Trump for Trump was so
Speaker 1: deep that you were willing to compromise your own professional integrity,
Speaker 1: whether you're journalist, whether you have punded, a commentator, a politician, etc.
Speaker 1: I mean, Dan, who are we to believe now? But
Speaker 1: don't just take my word for it. Take Chris Clomo's
Speaker 1: words for it. Listen to what he had to say
Speaker 1: on his show News Nation. Check it out.
Speaker 4: When it comes to Biden, you know how I feel
Speaker 4: you didn't see and hear his obvious diminished capacity.
Speaker 1: What we mentioned here at News Nation all the time.
Speaker 4: This is a shocker, and now the narrative gets a
Speaker 4: nudge from a book that is about deception and a
Speaker 4: cover up. They want you to believe the media was
Speaker 4: deceived into thinking Biden had no issues. Don't count me
Speaker 4: in on that. I knew, okay, and it was no
Speaker 4: secret because you knew too. The book is titled Original Sin,
Speaker 4: claiming to detail how Biden's staffers made efforts to hide
Speaker 4: his decline from the public and the media. The cover
Speaker 4: has Biden with his hands over his eyes, and it
Speaker 4: could just as easily be a picture of the writers
Speaker 4: of this book who are pretending they didn't see and
Speaker 4: hear what everybody else did. And look, I do believe
Speaker 4: the book is a cover for something, and it's a
Speaker 4: cover for something that's much more serious to me.
Speaker 1: Than Biden's age and stage.
Speaker 4: Everwhere the reality that many in the media knew damn
Speaker 4: well that Biden was losing it, but they played it
Speaker 4: down because they wanted Trump to lose more.
Speaker 1: The Original Sin is.
Speaker 4: Not hiding Biden's age and stage, but hiding this preference.
Speaker 1: Amen, Amen, Chris Cuomo is absolutely right, But you know,
Speaker 1: what the bigger problem is. It makes Trump look right
Speaker 1: because that hatred for him, that led people to compromise
Speaker 1: their own professional principles just to ensure that he didn't
Speaker 1: win the presidency. Well, if you were willing to do that,
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, does it not buffer his
Speaker 1: arguments about law fair being exercised against them? Does it
Speaker 1: not buffer his arguments about fake news, fake news, fake news?
Speaker 1: Does it not buffer the credibility that comes to his
Speaker 1: arguments that it was a witch hunt? Does it not
Speaker 1: in some way buffer the notion that somebody might have
Speaker 1: cheated him in twenty twenty. I don't believe that last part.
Speaker 1: He lost that damn election, And I get that. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about him genuinely feeling cheated as opposed to knowing
Speaker 1: he's lying because, oh my god, the numbers say so,
Speaker 1: why should he give it themn the rest of us? Yes,
Speaker 1: why should he give a damn about the numbers? You
Speaker 1: see what hatred can do. You see what an absence
Speaker 1: of objectivity can do. You see how the corrupt actions
Speaker 1: of a few, whether it's him and appropourri of his
Speaker 1: lives over the years, or Democrats and the lives that
Speaker 1: they were spewing leading up to the election. You see
Speaker 1: how we all got screwed because now the American people
Speaker 1: are sent here not knowing what to believe or who
Speaker 1: to believe anymore. And then you wonder why I'm pissed.
Speaker 1: In my perfect world, all I want is somebody in
Speaker 1: that office and on Capitol Hill, whether it's a senator
Speaker 1: or a representative, who is free from influence, whether it
Speaker 1: be that of monetary or emotional. You're just committed to
Speaker 1: doing the job and the best interest in the country.
Speaker 1: So people can walk the streets of America every single day,
Speaker 1: going to work, coming to and front work, socializing with friends,
Speaker 1: families and loved ones, living their best lives, understanding that, hey,
Speaker 1: we trust our officials to do their jobs. We don't
Speaker 1: have that luxury at this particular moment in time. Trump
Speaker 1: now with put makes no sense. Why he hasn't assisted
Speaker 1: other senators and imposing sanctions makes no sense, just like
Speaker 1: the actions articulated in Jake Tapper's book, acknowledging what those
Speaker 1: who hated Trump, obviously on the left, were willing to
Speaker 1: do to subvert and evade the principles of our constitution.
Speaker 1: They were willing to manipulate stuff at all courts just
Speaker 1: to ensure he didn't return to office, and as a result,
Speaker 1: we're sitting here with nobody to trust. What a damn shane,
Speaker 1: What a damn shame. Hopefully it won't lead to World
Speaker 1: War three. But I ain't gonna lie to you. I'll
Speaker 1: be darned if I'm not worried about a few things.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm worried about that, but I'm
Speaker 1: worried about a lot of things, and you should be too.
Speaker 1: Before I get on out of here, let's go to
Speaker 1: some tweets in this show on a lighter note, if
Speaker 1: at all possible. At Terry FINCONEA right, Steven Smith, why
Speaker 1: do you hate on Cowboys fans but then act the
Speaker 1: same way they do with your next? How do I act?
Speaker 1: I consider Cowboy fans to be delay us and disgusting
Speaker 1: and nauseating. Okay, now the nauseating part may apply to me.
Speaker 1: You could even sit at there and say I'm disgusting
Speaker 1: because of my Knixt fandom. But one thing I am
Speaker 1: not is delusional. They having one since nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're winning this year. I don't walk
Speaker 1: around seeing you know who didn't go win the NBA
Speaker 1: Championship next year?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: I don't do that, y'all do theyn't never compare me
Speaker 1: to a cowboy fans y'all so damn delusional, you'll owner
Speaker 1: profits off of it. He could sell y'all a bag
Speaker 1: of worms. You'll think it's shrimp. Next tweet, what's up
Speaker 1: at Mike Chapowski? Right, Steven Niswiell, how do you put
Speaker 1: on your shoes? A socks shoe, socks shoe or B
Speaker 1: sock socks, shoe shoe. It to be for me, sock
Speaker 1: socks and then shoeshoe. That's how I like to do it.
Speaker 1: That's my comfortable way of doing That's the easy ass.
Speaker 1: That's an easy answer to that question. Last tweek, what
Speaker 1: do you got here? Let's see at Merriam Webster, right,
Speaker 1: what word is the most fun to say out loud? Blasphemous?
Speaker 1: Blasphemis R blasphemy? Either way? It works for me because
Speaker 1: I'm cussing without cussing. That's why it works for me. Ope,
Speaker 1: you can appreciate where I'm coming from. That's it for
Speaker 1: this addition to Stephen and Spishow, I'm about to get
Speaker 1: on out of here. I gotta travel back on the road,
Speaker 1: get out of Minneapolis to head back to Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: for Game five, where I expect oklooma city thunder to
Speaker 1: end stuff. You know, I think this way it is.
Speaker 1: You know, I think Oklahoma City will end Minnesota tomorrow
Speaker 1: night in Minnesota timber Wolves. I think it's over. But
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you all in a couple of days
Speaker 1: until next time. This is Stephen, a sounding off piece
Speaker 1: of love. Everybody