Speaker 1: Why why do y'all keep doing this to me? I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to doing the show, to talking about serious issues,
Speaker 1: to talk about things that matter, the stuff that's substitutive.
Speaker 1: But oh no, y'all can't get enough of this.
Speaker 2: Dude, step I don't act like we once they requested you.
Speaker 2: It's because of me.
Speaker 1: It's a cold open. You're not allowed to speak until
Speaker 1: I say so. Zip it to Stephen A Smith show
Speaker 1: dedicated to nephew Josh.
Speaker 2: Now, I guess I shouldn't be talking on the cold opening.
Speaker 1: Some hot it's not cold open now, but now you
Speaker 1: can talk, so the cold open.
Speaker 2: Can't talk of the cold because you're hot.
Speaker 1: You're hot?
Speaker 2: You know what they say?
Speaker 1: Usually women call themselves hot. I'm sorry, women call themselves
Speaker 1: how dudes.
Speaker 2: That's some dudes.
Speaker 1: You know they call it. They call the women hot.
Speaker 1: You don't hear a dude calling himself hot. You do
Speaker 1: know that?
Speaker 3: Right now?
Speaker 4: You say you hot as far as like what's going
Speaker 4: on right now? Not physically hot. But if you was
Speaker 4: born after the eighties, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Because I'm I'm born before the eighties.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't got the same lingo. You wouldn't understand.
Speaker 4: That's why everybody I would understand.
Speaker 1: Well, how come I wouldn't understand? You should have been
Speaker 1: showing me this stuff for years. I listen to you.
Speaker 2: It's supposed to be dressed down Fridays. Once again, he's
Speaker 2: looking like he's dressed like Barack, and it's just like,
Speaker 2: you don't got nothing.
Speaker 1: Don't you admire Barack? Don't you look up to the
Speaker 1: former president? And I said, for the fourth president of
Speaker 1: United States of America, don't you look up to it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's my second favorite president.
Speaker 1: Who's your first?
Speaker 2: Bill Clinton?
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton is your favorite president ahead of Barack Obama?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean me and Barrock. Me and Barack got
Speaker 4: like as far as the looks we got. You do
Speaker 4: stuff like that, but me and Bill Clinton is more like.
Speaker 2: What we're talking about. You know where I got it from?
Speaker 1: Do that you say this stuff on camera? That's what
Speaker 1: you do.
Speaker 2: That's the difference between me and you.
Speaker 4: I say it on camera, So you have no kuf
Speaker 4: is what you're trying to say.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to say, I live my I speak and
Speaker 2: live my truth.
Speaker 4: I'm like, you know, it's I ain't gonna say too much.
Speaker 4: I got I get it from similar.
Speaker 1: We got it. We got some videos, some videos, some videos,
Speaker 1: we got calls, we got tweets, people wanting to holler
Speaker 1: at us and stuff like that. So I said, all right,
Speaker 1: I'll bring am in and let him sit here for
Speaker 1: the show with me.
Speaker 2: Said, I'm here.
Speaker 1: That just a segment. I can't handle that because that
Speaker 1: that that takes a little while. Are you capable of
Speaker 1: sitting in that chair and and and giving the audience
Speaker 1: content for more than five minutes? Are you capable of
Speaker 1: doing that? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I do a few things more than five minutes. Do
Speaker 4: you speaking to me like that to four minutes?
Speaker 1: Kind of yeah? Oh lord, he just said five was
Speaker 1: kind of alone. Let's go to the videos, please, for
Speaker 1: this boy gets himself in more trouble. Let's go to videos.
Speaker 3: Every time you got some smoke, you go right to
Speaker 3: the source and have a respectful conversation about it. I
Speaker 3: want to know why they's not talked about more about
Speaker 3: how you not ducking those smoke.
Speaker 2: You're going straight to it.
Speaker 1: And I don't see that a lot.
Speaker 3: It seems like everybody talk around each other and you
Speaker 3: go straight to it.
Speaker 1: But it gets swept under the rug. Try and see
Speaker 1: what you think about this man?
Speaker 2: What you think?
Speaker 1: I really really appreciate that brother for sending that video
Speaker 1: in because I'm really thankful. I'm grateful that he said
Speaker 1: that about me, because it's so many people in this
Speaker 1: business that just do their thing and then they go home.
Speaker 1: It's like they ain't coming on to talk to the
Speaker 1: people that get at them or anything like that, or
Speaker 1: address directly accusations that have been made against them in
Speaker 1: uncomfortable environments. You know what I'm saying. It's one thing
Speaker 1: to sit on your own platform and speak up, but
Speaker 1: you know me, I'm like, you know, you got something
Speaker 1: to say? Where you want to meet up? We can
Speaker 1: talk about it. We can talk about it in front
Speaker 1: of the public, we can talk about it privately. Don't
Speaker 1: make no difference to me. Are you willing to give
Speaker 1: your uncle at least that much credit?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I give you some credit.
Speaker 4: You shore what, speak your mind and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: But it's gonna happen even more now because I'm here.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: What you mean?
Speaker 4: This is gonna be more direct and sometimes I'm an
Speaker 4: answer for you from my seven burners.
Speaker 1: From your seven burners. See, you can't be doing that.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna respond to mind suit.
Speaker 1: You can't be doing that, man, when I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Cross the line.
Speaker 4: You know, one guy was disrespecting me and I checked
Speaker 4: this page and he was a Dollar Tree cashier.
Speaker 2: Now I'm not trying to knock that. You know, I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to.
Speaker 1: Keep making an honest living.
Speaker 2: And what I'm doing, excuse me, what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: According to you, nothing you living off me. You that's
Speaker 1: what you've been.
Speaker 2: Telling and that's why I'm better than him.
Speaker 1: Next video, next video.
Speaker 5: Hey ste today, it's your boy or eb from Hoop Social.
Speaker 5: I obviously know you don't remember, but I remember big
Speaker 5: time that I used to call in on your radio
Speaker 5: show all the time and you were calling Corey from Maine. Anyways,
Speaker 5: I'm wasting time, steven A. I have a legacy question
Speaker 5: for you, now that we're legitimately almost twenty five years
Speaker 5: away from it. Is Alan Iverson's Game one against the
Speaker 5: two thousand and one Lakers the most impactful, legacy boosting
Speaker 5: single game in NBA history.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. That's a good question. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna dismiss the question. Bro. That was a big
Speaker 1: time impactful game because I remember when I talked about
Speaker 1: it in the city of Philadelphia's that right for the
Speaker 1: philip Enquirer, and they want to be fired and banned
Speaker 1: because I sat up there and said, on June fifteenth,
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Lakers were winning this the reason five games.
Speaker 1: They were like what, they said, You're not giving up
Speaker 1: a chance? I said, no chance. They was like why.
Speaker 1: I said, shack, shack and more shack, and oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, Kobe, because Kobe was coming up and Shaq
Speaker 1: was already in his prime. And then they said you
Speaker 1: saying the seventy six is gonna get swept. I said, no,
Speaker 1: AI will get you one, and sure enough he showed
Speaker 1: up that game dropped forty eight. That was the first
Speaker 1: night I ever met Denzel Washington. Denzel Washington game and
Speaker 1: wrapped his arm around my shoulder and said, so, what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen? What's gonna do? Because he was nervous about
Speaker 1: the seventy six because the alox I said, oh, they
Speaker 1: gonna get you one. They're gonna get you one time,
Speaker 1: but then after that, you're gonna smoke him. They don't,
Speaker 1: they can't. They have no answer for for Shaq. But
Speaker 1: was it the most impactful here's an interesting point, Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 1: I think it was either Game four, Game five in
Speaker 1: Indiana when Shaq had fouled out and Kobe had to
Speaker 1: save the day in the NBA Finals. I kind of
Speaker 1: think that eclipses AI's performance personal, but I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: What about you?
Speaker 4: Well, I don't mean to be picking the other side here,
Speaker 4: but the best, one of the best playoff moments I
Speaker 4: know is when against Detroit, lebron'scoing twenty five straight.
Speaker 2: We didn't think he was gonna beat Detroit.
Speaker 1: That's true, twenty five straight and twenty nine in the
Speaker 1: quarter right, Okay, okay, okay, legacy defining.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because if the Big three Celtics don't put that
Speaker 4: team together, Lebron doesn't figure out how to get to
Speaker 4: the finals. Yeah, he lost to the Spurs, but I think,
Speaker 4: you know, with a couple more roster.
Speaker 1: That's not moves, that's not a bad take.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not a bad task.
Speaker 1: He next video? What's up? All right? Steven? And I
Speaker 1: got a good one for you.
Speaker 6: So, if you could create a starting five of species
Speaker 6: of birds, what would you pick?
Speaker 1: And why of species? And birds?
Speaker 2: A species of birds? You want me to do it?
Speaker 1: A species of birds. Yeah, okay, do eagles count? Yeah?
Speaker 2: That's one, Cardinals, cardinals, two blue jays.
Speaker 4: I'm using teams a species of birds, pigeons, that's four peckuin.
Speaker 1: I loved it. I love the show Penguin. I mean
Speaker 1: that's show.
Speaker 2: What is it on?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Is it on HBO?
Speaker 1: Hbo? Oh? I love that show with Colin Farrell. Oh,
Speaker 1: I love it. I love that show, so love it.
Speaker 4: That's pigeons, blue jays, cardinals, eagles, eagles.
Speaker 2: And a group of birds. I'm meeting up with tonight.
Speaker 6: Next video, stephen A. Smith, what's good? It's your boy
Speaker 6: two tone the Superstar, please say the Superstar. I have
Speaker 6: to ask you, how come we are giving a pass
Speaker 6: to say all Canelo Alvarez for Duck and David the
Speaker 6: Mexican Monster been a Vedez. Ain't given a pass to
Speaker 6: Terrence Bud Crawford for not fighting Juron boots Innis. And
Speaker 6: I say that respectfully because nobody asked for Canelo versus
Speaker 6: Terrence Bud Crawford. Because that's musty.
Speaker 1: Energy, musty energy, bro, Who's giving Canilo a pass? I've
Speaker 1: been complaining about him not fighting the Mexican Monster. David
Speaker 1: been a Vitas forever. And by the way, you bring
Speaker 1: up Crawford versus Boots innis, I wanted Crawford versus Challo
Speaker 1: for the junior middleweight title. That's what I wanted. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, ain't nobody giving them a pass? But this boxing,
Speaker 1: and you know, cats are making money, making fights based
Speaker 1: on the money, and anything that's gonna jeopardize the money.
Speaker 1: Because the promoters control the sport, you end up having
Speaker 1: to deal with that. I didn't want Canilo versus the
Speaker 1: smaller Charllo. I thought that cat who was better friends
Speaker 1: with Aerol Spence after Crawford beat up on Spence, I
Speaker 1: thought that would have been the perfect fight. So the
Speaker 1: fact that that didn't happen bothers me. And even though
Speaker 1: I know Crawford is waiting for Canilo and sure he
Speaker 1: wants that fight, he personally told me he think he
Speaker 1: could take Canilo out boxing, et cetera. My whole point
Speaker 1: is I don't like the fact that these guys aren't
Speaker 1: as active as they need to be. I need to
Speaker 1: see them in the ring. That's where I'm at with it.
Speaker 1: What about you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Nah, I think I'm cool with the Canelo versus Crawford.
Speaker 1: I'm cool with it, but you know, David Benavitez deserves
Speaker 1: that fight more the Mexican monster. He gotta move up
Speaker 1: to light heavyweight just to get a fight because Canilo
Speaker 1: and them ain't dead for it. I mean that's a problem.
Speaker 2: So once you have, you got Crawford losing because he's no.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: I think that Crawford.
Speaker 1: Listen, I think that Crawford would out box Canilo for
Speaker 1: twelve rounds unless Canilo caught him and knocked him out.
Speaker 1: I think Canilo's only chance of beating Crawford is knocking
Speaker 1: him out. I don't think that, you know, crawl f
Speaker 1: It is too marvelous of a boxer, So I would
Speaker 1: not choose him to lose in a boxing match to
Speaker 1: Canelo other than Canelo catching him. Yeah, right, agree that
Speaker 1: That's how I feel. So you're learning, You're learning next
Speaker 1: video what you got?
Speaker 7: So Steven, Nah, I've been having this debate with myself.
Speaker 7: As great as Kevin Durant is absolute future, first ballot
Speaker 7: Hall of Famer, two time champion, but with his movement
Speaker 7: from team to team over the past few years and
Speaker 7: what looks like he'll be on another team next season,
Speaker 7: is Kevin Durant the greatest journeyman of all time.
Speaker 1: We can't call Kevin Durant a journeyman when he's a
Speaker 1: two time champion and a two time NBA Finals MVP.
Speaker 1: And by the way, as great as the Splash Brothers were,
Speaker 1: as great as Golden State was, he was still the
Speaker 1: best player on that team. But he does get indicted
Speaker 1: because the only time he has won is when he
Speaker 1: was on Golden State, which means that this is what
Speaker 1: the bottom line, Josh. Kevin Durant forces you to look
Speaker 1: into and wonder about what the hell is he doing
Speaker 1: with his life off the basketball court, because you find
Speaker 1: yourself looking at him and saying, situations from a leadership
Speaker 1: perspective have to be pretty good, if not close to perfect,
Speaker 1: around you in order for you to win. You're so
Speaker 1: great even when you departed from Steph Covey, you played
Speaker 1: with Kyrie Irving. Even before you went with Steph Curry
Speaker 1: and Klay Thompson, you was in Oklahoma City with Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1: Why is it that a situation needs to be perfect
Speaker 1: in order for you to win? Why aren't you able
Speaker 1: to milk and soak out of the talent around you?
Speaker 1: In other places than Golden State, the way somebody like
Speaker 1: Lebron and others have done to that.
Speaker 2: You say, what well to that?
Speaker 4: I say, once again, we owe Kevin Durant an apology
Speaker 4: because he's weak.
Speaker 1: Who's weak?
Speaker 4: I'm a new part of the media, so I shouldn't
Speaker 4: even be saying weed. But since it's our money, I'm.
Speaker 1: Saying, you ain't no damn media. You just giving up.
Speaker 1: You just giving an opinion. You ain't a media. Stop that.
Speaker 1: Stop that, so go ahead.
Speaker 4: So what I'm saying is y'all keep saying, like, why
Speaker 4: y'all even looking for leadership out of Kevin Durant?
Speaker 2: What is the coach doing?
Speaker 4: Why do you make the salary that you make. I'm
Speaker 4: Kevin Durant leader. I lead the team at school that's leading.
Speaker 4: I lead him in rebounding. Maybe I'm second, third, third
Speaker 4: and assists. How much more I'm supposed to do? Why
Speaker 4: is my occupation? Why is it added that I have
Speaker 4: to lead players that aren't that good. That's what the
Speaker 4: coach is supposed to do.
Speaker 1: But the coach is supposed to do it, But clearly
Speaker 1: Frank Vogel wasn't capable of doing it. Mike Budenholzer clearly
Speaker 1: isn't capable of doing this. Steve Nash wasn't capable of
Speaker 1: doing it, and you let Steve Dash be the head
Speaker 1: coach when Kenny Atkinson was there and you and Kyrie
Speaker 1: wanted him going. He's going. He's an assistant in Golden State.
Speaker 1: Now he's a head coach in Cleveland. They got the
Speaker 1: second best record in basketball with this man coaching them.
Speaker 1: You had a coach. And so the point is is
Speaker 1: that because you that superstar, you could kind of get
Speaker 1: things the way that you want things, and the kind
Speaker 1: of chaos that has been around you, you don't have
Speaker 1: to tolerate that. If you know me, this is what
Speaker 1: I do. So whether it's here, whether it's First Take
Speaker 1: on ESPN or anywhere else, you know, there's so much
Speaker 1: stuff I'm gonna tolerate because I'm trying to win and
Speaker 1: anything that I think gets in a way of winning
Speaker 1: is gonna get removed. I ain't trying to make friends.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to win. That's my mentality. I believe that's
Speaker 1: what it takes to win. And some of the great
Speaker 1: great players that we've seen in NBA and in sports
Speaker 1: history have had that.
Speaker 2: Mentality and that's why I'm on the show. You want
Speaker 2: to win? Well, come on last video please?
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Question I have for you, missus Stephen A. Smith, is
Speaker 2: does your current significant other have the right to know
Speaker 2: your ex? And if so, why and are they to
Speaker 2: that information?
Speaker 4: What he said is your current your current relationship? Is
Speaker 4: the girl supposed to know about your ex? Is she
Speaker 4: supposed to know your ex?
Speaker 1: You know what? What was he asking is in your
Speaker 1: current relationship? Is your girl supposed to know about your ex?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Not necessarily. I mean these women out here don't be
Speaker 1: telling us about their exes. I mean, listen, as long
Speaker 1: as you ain't messing with them. Now, what's the problem?
Speaker 1: I mean, I listen. I will say this. If you
Speaker 1: got a woman and you suspect that your woman is
Speaker 1: interested in somebody other than you, then you got to
Speaker 1: be man enough to move on. You know, you can't
Speaker 1: be you can't expect to be happy accepting a role
Speaker 1: as a consolation prize. Now, all of us play the
Speaker 1: fool sometimes, as the old saying goes, it's no exception
Speaker 1: to the rules. But if you are aware that you
Speaker 1: are a consolation prize and you accept that clearly, you
Speaker 1: are lacking confidence as a man. Is that possible for you, Josh, yeah.
Speaker 4: But I don't want to charm too much in this
Speaker 4: cause you're speaking about half my lineup.
Speaker 1: What is that supposed to be? What do you mean
Speaker 1: half your lineup? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: I'm talking about the girls that I You told me
Speaker 2: not to talk like that on the camera. Can we
Speaker 2: go to the next video? The next video? No more videos,
Speaker 2: It's no more you keeping that