Speaker 1: Let's just get right into it. We all know where
Speaker 1: I need to start today, and it's with some sports talk, media, news,
Speaker 1: and my good friend mister Lebron James. Lebron appeared on
Speaker 1: the Pat McAfee show today and made a few headlines
Speaker 1: with his thoughts on a number of topics, including yours. Truly,
Speaker 1: for those of you who didn't see it, I'll play
Speaker 1: it for you right here. This is Lebron James on
Speaker 1: Pat McAfee talking about me, which leads obviously to you
Speaker 1: and Steven A.
Speaker 2: Hey, legit, that feels like a moment that had been
Speaker 2: brewing for a long time. He's like on a Taylor
Speaker 2: Swift tour run right now. Oh yeah, yeah, we're watching it.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're awesome. Well you're seeing it as well,
Speaker 2: you know. He literally it started off with I didn't
Speaker 2: want to address it. I didn't I didn't want to
Speaker 2: address it. I wasn't going to address it. But since
Speaker 2: the video came out, I feel the need to address it,
Speaker 2: to talk about it. Are you kidding me? There's one
Speaker 2: person that couldn't wait to the video or to drop
Speaker 2: so you can address it, is your ass, Like seriously,
Speaker 2: it's and like another he completely like missed the whole point.
Speaker 2: The whole point. Never am I never would I ever
Speaker 2: not allow people to talk about the sport, criticize players
Speaker 2: about what they do on the court. That is your
Speaker 2: job to criticize or to you know, be in a
Speaker 2: position where Okay, if a guy's not performing, you know,
Speaker 2: that is all that is all part of the game,
Speaker 2: that's all part of the game. But when you take it
Speaker 2: and you get personal with it, it's my job to
Speaker 2: not only protect my damn household, but protect the players.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: And I think, and I think a lot of the media,
Speaker 2: including him, and I know he's gonna he's gonna be
Speaker 2: happy as hell. He's gonna be smiling from ear to
Speaker 2: ear when he hears me talking about him. God, he's
Speaker 2: gonna get home and grab some ice cream out of
Speaker 2: the fucking freezer and sit in his chair. And it's
Speaker 2: tighty Whities on the couside. I hope you. I hope
Speaker 2: at some point you too, like relax, bro like relax.
Speaker 1: Uh. Tighty Whitey's comment was funny because I don't wear
Speaker 1: tighty whities. Let you figure out why that is. But
Speaker 1: moving on from that particular subject, I don't happen to
Speaker 1: consider anything that Lebron has said a laughing matter. So
Speaker 1: y'all wanted me to be serious, I'll be serious. And
Speaker 1: I know there some people out there that's going to
Speaker 1: be like, I'm milking the story for all it's worth. Well,
Speaker 1: I've been winning in television for quite some time. I
Speaker 1: don't need an incident like this to talk about Lebron,
Speaker 1: and I don't need an incident like this to get ratings.
Speaker 1: Lebron gives us plenty of ammunition to talk about them,
Speaker 1: both good and bad. So let's get that out the
Speaker 1: way first. Let's also get out the way that major,
Speaker 1: major props to Pat McAfee for getting that interview. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of people that's been texting me, and he's
Speaker 1: a teammate, he's on ESPN. Why would he do that.
Speaker 1: Please y'all be quiet. Pat McAfee did nothing wrong. Pat
Speaker 1: McAfee did his job. Pat McAfee has a show that
Speaker 1: airs on ESPN. You have Lebron, an opportunity to get
Speaker 1: Lebron James, you take him. I'll give a damn who
Speaker 1: you are. This is one of the greatest players in
Speaker 1: the history of basketball. You get him. If you have
Speaker 1: an opportunity to get him. You get him. And I
Speaker 1: didn't think that Pat McAfee disrespected me or did me
Speaker 1: wrong in any way. He did his job and I
Speaker 1: got no problems with it. My issue is with Lebron James,
Speaker 1: and I just want to say for the record, Lebron
Speaker 1: James is full of it, and in this particular instance,
Speaker 1: as it pertains to his son, he is a liar.
Speaker 1: And he went on national television today and he lied again.
Speaker 1: You see when he approached on He approached me while
Speaker 1: I was sitting courtside at that game against the New
Speaker 1: York Knicks. When he rolled up on me, I didn't
Speaker 1: know he was gonna roll up on me. I had
Speaker 1: no idea. But when he said what he had to say,
Speaker 1: I was in no position to give any kind of
Speaker 1: retort without making a scene. It was during the third quarter,
Speaker 1: it was fresh out of a time out. It was
Speaker 1: him walking to the basketball court. It was on national television.
Speaker 1: The cameras were rolling and had I done something? What
Speaker 1: do y'all want me to do? You want me to act?
Speaker 1: You want this to be a reincarnation of Chris Rock
Speaker 1: and Will Smith. And let me stay for the record
Speaker 1: that while we bring up that, let me assure you
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have gone down like that. I would have
Speaker 1: gotten my ass kick because had that man put his
Speaker 1: hands on me, I would have immediately swung on him
Speaker 1: immediately that I'm not gonna tolerate. But I knew he
Speaker 1: wasn't going to do something like that. There was no
Speaker 1: fear in my mind about it. It was shocked because,
Speaker 1: as I have repeatedly stated, I was not talking about
Speaker 1: his son. I was talking about him and whether it's
Speaker 1: the video that you saw him a couple of days
Speaker 1: later after that incident, when he was talking to Richard Jefferson,
Speaker 1: my colleague at ESPN before an ABC game in Boston
Speaker 1: when it got blown out that night by the Celtics,
Speaker 1: or in the aftermath of it, including Pat McAfee's show
Speaker 1: when he talked about me getting personal and taking it
Speaker 1: beyond basketball. I'm getting to a point where I'm getting
Speaker 1: very annoyed at people who cover the game of basketball,
Speaker 1: who cover professional sports pundits out there, including him in
Speaker 1: a circle, his family members and everybody else included. When
Speaker 1: are y'all going to ask him or hold him accountable
Speaker 1: for the truth I have not been talking about Bronnie
Speaker 1: Jay Games, I have not, as Lebron James accused me
Speaker 1: of doing, to my face, been shitting on his son.
Speaker 1: I clapped back at d Wade and mellow to brothers
Speaker 1: I love deally when they were talking about this, even
Speaker 1: though ninety nine percent of the stuff they said was right,
Speaker 1: it was not clapping back of his son, your second
Speaker 1: round pick fifty fifth. Overall, there's been plenty of second
Speaker 1: round picks that have to work their way up through
Speaker 1: the ranks before getting to the pro level. Me pointing
Speaker 1: that out about his son and talking about how his
Speaker 1: son has been pushed to the forefront, thereby put in
Speaker 1: a line of fire for folks in the media to
Speaker 1: come at him, is not denigrating his son. It's simply
Speaker 1: highlighting what we all knew, which is that he's not
Speaker 1: ready yet. But based on what we've seen from Brownie recently,
Speaker 1: there are indications that he will be, and as Lebron
Speaker 1: James pointed out on the Pat McAfee show today, it's
Speaker 1: probably sooner than because his growth and his maturation from
Speaker 1: just a year ago has happened by leaps and bounds.
Speaker 1: Nothing but respect and appreciation, wishing Bronni nothing but the
Speaker 1: best this is not about BRONI this is about Lebron.
Speaker 1: This is about Lebron. And when you sit up there
Speaker 1: and you talk about I love talking about I don't
Speaker 1: need something like this to happen to talk about Lebron.
Speaker 1: He plays for the Lakers. He is Lebron James. I
Speaker 1: don't need an incident like this to talk about Lebron James.
Speaker 1: And do I use him for ratings? You're damn right,
Speaker 1: like I use anything in the news for ratings, because
Speaker 1: I'm a reporter and a personality and abundant and a commentator.
Speaker 1: That's my career. Of Course I talk about him. Of
Speaker 1: course I talk about anything relevant in the news. One minute,
Speaker 1: it's Lebron, another minute it's the Cowboys. Y'all act like
Speaker 1: that's all I talk about. For two hours a day,
Speaker 1: ten hours a week live. All I talk about is
Speaker 1: Lebron and the Cowboys. Are you sure? Because I can
Speaker 1: pick a whole bunch of things I've gotten in trouble
Speaker 1: for for opening my mouth about. But that's neither here
Speaker 1: nor there, because listen, I get distracted from the real
Speaker 1: point in hand. The real point in hand is this
Speaker 1: Lebron James continues to lie he hoodwink y'all in the
Speaker 1: thinking that he was upset about criticism about his son.
Speaker 1: If your son is a professional basketball player and I
Speaker 1: was talking about your son as a basketball player, since
Speaker 1: you just went on Pat McAfee Show It and said
Speaker 1: you would never knock anybody for talking about the game,
Speaker 1: then what is it that I said? What I said
Speaker 1: was as a father. Stop. I wasn't talking about you
Speaker 1: as a father, as somebody that's home minded your business.
Speaker 1: And I just call you out because your son is
Speaker 1: in this position. That's not the father I've been talking about.
Speaker 1: That's why I've been addressing Draymond Green, who's been an
Speaker 1: avid supporter of Lebron on this matter. All I'm asking
Speaker 1: for comprehension of the actual point. How do you mention
Speaker 1: Brownie James without bringing up how you got drafted by
Speaker 1: the Lakers, How you got drafted period? How do you
Speaker 1: bring that up without bringing up Lebron James saying he
Speaker 1: was better than some NBA players before he got to
Speaker 1: the NBA. How do you bring that up without bringing
Speaker 1: up that Lebron James said, quote, if you want me
Speaker 1: draft my son. At this point, it ain't about the
Speaker 1: money I'll play for free. That was Lebron, How is it?
Speaker 1: I mean, I understand cynics. I understand this pension to
Speaker 1: just hate the player and not the game. I understand
Speaker 1: how it's tempting to just come at me because you
Speaker 1: might dislike me or might disagree with me, if you're
Speaker 1: Joe Public or Susie Public out there. I get it.
Speaker 1: But don't the truth matter? Because there's one person in
Speaker 1: this ordeal that's telling the truth, and it's me. I
Speaker 1: don't lie to y'all. His ass lies a lot, and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of shady stuff that he does. And
Speaker 1: one of the things is this passive aggressiveness and the
Speaker 1: two faces in this and smiling your face and dig
Speaker 1: you behind the back. I happen to know that about him,
Speaker 1: which is why I don't like him and he don't
Speaker 1: like me. But it doesn't stop me from being fair
Speaker 1: and calling it like I see it. We ain't exchanging
Speaker 1: Christmas gifts, we ain't having Thanksgiving dinner together. What you
Speaker 1: bring your son up into there for which you bring
Speaker 1: your family up in there. Before you gonna go on
Speaker 1: Pat McAfee show talk about you gonna protect your house
Speaker 1: talking about your son ain't at the house. He's at
Speaker 1: Crypto dot Com arena. We ain't covering him in Brentwood.
Speaker 1: We covering him in downtown LA, at the Crypto dot
Speaker 1: Com arena where you put them now, I happen to
Speaker 1: believe that he's going to be ready. I think Bronni's
Speaker 1: gonna be an NBA player. I believe in the kid personally.
Speaker 1: But Lebron did this now to get to he and
Speaker 1: I could y'all please go back to the video of
Speaker 1: him getting in my face. If you watch ladies and
Speaker 1: gentlemen and you see it for yourself, notice how Lebron
Speaker 1: is in my face, and right when he finishes, he
Speaker 1: looks past me, right at the camera that was filming it.
Speaker 1: Watch them, I didn't even pick that up. First go round.
Speaker 1: You got Markeith Morris to my right, his left. You
Speaker 1: got Scott Brooks, assistant coach behind him. He finishes talking
Speaker 1: and looks right up to the camera. Everybody and their
Speaker 1: mother knew I was gonna be there, because when you
Speaker 1: sit courtside, the Lakers have an idea of who's gonna
Speaker 1: show up. He knew I was coming and pick the
Speaker 1: third quarter in the middle of the game to say
Speaker 1: what he has to say to make sure the camera
Speaker 1: is rolling, and to then look at the camera after
Speaker 1: immediately saying what he said to me, with me having
Speaker 1: no chance to respond. We could have went to the
Speaker 1: back after the game. Lebron James could have came right
Speaker 1: over the press row and said, Yo, don't leave. I
Speaker 1: want to see you after the game. We gotta have
Speaker 1: a conversation. And any of these players or any professional
Speaker 1: athlete or anybody associated with them, says another syllable. Think
Speaker 1: about this. Ninety nine percent of y'all would have done that.
Speaker 1: Y'all have said Stephen, they don't leave, I ain't see
Speaker 1: you bro after the game. Lebron didn't want that because
Speaker 1: Lebron would have had to deal with my response, and
Speaker 1: my response would have been, you did this, This ain't me.
Speaker 1: Don't put this on me. Why the hell are you
Speaker 1: putting your son in this position? Knowing we got to
Speaker 1: cover him. If we don't cover him, we ain't doing
Speaker 1: our job. Why would you do that? That's what I
Speaker 1: would have said to him, But he didn't want a response.
Speaker 1: He didn't want that because Lebron wanted to give smoke.
Speaker 1: He didn't want to take any what am I talking about.
Speaker 1: I have even more nuggets of info to give y'all
Speaker 1: on that point. Brother don't like smoke. He just likes
Speaker 1: to give it. Typical bully mentality. It ain't working with me.