March 27, 2025 • 13 mins
On this episode of Unafraid Show with George Wrighster, we break down the heated back-and-forth between ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith and NBA legend LeBron James over LeBron’s parenting and Bronny James' role with the Los Angeles Lakers. Stephen A. made waves by questioning LeBron’s handling of Bronny’s minutes in "meaningful games," sparking a passionate response from LeBron himself. Now, the sports world is on fire as social media, TV personalities, and fans weigh in on the controversy.
🏀 Did Stephen A. cross the line?
👑 Is LeBron being too sensitive?
🔥 Who’s really right in this war of words?
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Stephen A Smith versus Lebron James. You gotta pick a side,
But the real winner is not who you think it is.
I'm gonna tell you who it is and what's really
going on behind the scenes here on the Unafraid Show.
Make sure that you like, subscribe, get notifications, and tell
a friend about the show.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Let's get to it.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
For over a week now, stephen A Smith and Lebron
James have been going at it and people have picked Usie, Oh,
it's Lebron being too sensitive, steven A Smith's being too sensitive.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
But I'm gonna tell you who it is.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
ESPN is the only winner in this situation because they
just paid stephen A. Smith a boot pool load of
money some speculate up to one hundred million dollars and
on a night when Lebron hit the game winner, you
are in a playoff run in the NBA. Great players
doing great things. We're talking about steven A. Smith and
Pat McAfee and this the whole network. Brian winhors everybody else.
(01:12):
ESPN is like yes, ratings gold, So they are the
biggest winner in this situation. But the question is who's
at fault? And you know who's the person to blame.
So if you're not familiar with what happened. Obviously a
few weeks months ago, Steven A. Smith goes on First
Take and he pleads with Lebron Lebron as a father,
(01:35):
as a.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Father, you can't keep sending your son out there. And
as a man who's very, very protective of maturans, if
you come at me like that, the insinuation is, I
don't know what I'm doing as a daddy. I don't
know what I'm doing as a father.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And by all accounts now, mind, I have had the
personal privilege of watching Lebron James up close and personal,
Savannah up close and personal for like five years because
my kids and his kids went to the same school,
so had the privilege of seeing them up there, how
they interact with the faculty, how they interact with everybody.
And the dude is absolute gold in terms of how
(02:14):
he's acting as a parent. He's not trying to stampede
the coach, not trying to do none of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So as a dad, I.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Would be hot if you came at me like that,
like I'm doing something wrong to my kid. When there's
all this nepotism out in the world and my kid
I believe is actually talented, because every parent believes that
their kid is special, talented and everything else.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And Bronnie started to prove it even for all you haters.
Oh look at them moving the gold post box score,
box score, box score, look at the BLUs minus honest stuff. Right.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
But here is where Steven A. Smith has won because
he got to avenge. He got to avenge his boy,
Skip Bayless. By that, so Skip Bayless spent you know,
fifteen years banging on the Lebron drum just oh he's
not the go, don't have the clutch, gen and everything else.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Lebron just refused to respond to him. So now Stephen A.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Smith got what nobody has really gotten from Lebron James
in terms of like direct shot. He got a response.
So now that magnifies everything that Stephen A. Smith says.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
So Stephen A. Smith is winning in that aspect.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
He's proving his worth in terms of drumming up content,
drumming up interest in what he has to say about whatever,
whether it's politics, whether it's sports.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Anything like that. The man's engaging. You cannot say he's
not good at his job.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And also on a side note for all you people
that be like, oh he's a clowns.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
No, no, no, Steven A. Smith has put a lot
of folks on.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
He is not a guy who just hoards his fame
and opportunity and all of that. No, he's a guy
who tries to consistently help other people raise up. Now
with that, that does not mean that he's not being
Ralph Transmitt right now, I want a man.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
With sid steevity. Right now. Stephen A.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Smith is taking himself way too seriously because this is
the first time that he has been the butt of jokes.
He spent years and times on television being hypercritical of players.
Look at the Kwame Brown situation. Oh he's a bump,
small hands, not one post move that he can recite
from memory two times.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
In a row. That whole thing. It ain't no fun
when the rabbit got the gun. So yes, stephen A.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Smith, you could have just took the l right, and
then people actually have manipulated something else that Stephen A said.
And this one got banged out yesterday. This one got
circulated yesterday. So before y'all say, but I know y'all
want to say, I caught myself. So here is what
(04:51):
the clip that circulated yesterday was that man put his
hands on me, I would have immediately swung on them immediately.
So he was like, yo, if he's come at me,
I'm swinging at him. You're like, are you sure? But
prior to that, to his credit, he did say I'll
probably get my ass what by six eight two hundred
and fifty pounds man? So that clip hits a little
(05:13):
bit different and people aren't sharing that because it's funny
and the internet has no chill and black folks got
no chill on the internet. They are gonna make jokes
out of everything. And then Lebron did the ultimate middle
finger back. Because Lebron don't really do interviews. He don't
sign cards like he hasn't had a what a signed
card until recently, since like twenty fourteen. He don't do
(05:37):
card deals like that, sign deals, don't do none of
the stuff that people would traditionally do. Access to Lebron
for interviews is very very difficult, and Lebron is like cool.
He went on a New Heights podcast, then he went
on then he went on Pat McAfee yesterday, and there
is famous beef between Pat McAfee and Steven A.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Smith.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
There's work beef about who's the top dog at ESPN,
So that's kind of a slap in the face of
And he didn't just come on for five minutes, ten
minutes like bro was on for like an hour. So
that was a slap in the face of Stephen A.
And this is where I say Steven A. Smiths taking
himself way too seriously right now, because at some point
in time.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You gotta just laugh at yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Listen when the clips were circulating about the boxing and
then people were laughing, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Because look at this.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I don't know how we can look at that as
anything but comedy and hilarious because it don't look like
you could fight it all coupled with.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
What it said.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
So this is where sometimes you gotta let stuff roll
off your back. And he's a veteran, he knows that
people clipped it that way on purpose. And then he
fell literally into the sinkhole. And then after Lebron confronted
him at the game, then he went on the Press Store,
went on Gilbert Show, went on other shows, talking.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Big and bad and you know, like that ain't it, man,
That is not it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
And the fact that we have two of our most
prominent black figures out here beefing on the media.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Then you got Kendrick Perkins adding into it, this.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Ain't it and it is petty, and it has turned petty,
and it has turned more than personal.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And this is and this actually has led to Stephen A.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Smith saying something today that he had to retract that
was a flat out lie. And this is a debate
that I've had with people before. If you know something
is true and then you say the opposite, that's a lie.
If you are ignorant of information and you say something,
(07:49):
is that a lie?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You guys comming.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Down and is that a lie? Or is that I
just didn't know what the hell I was talking about?
So what happened today is Steven A. Smith he got
up on there and he said, oh, well, I'm not
even I haven't even talked about why you weren't at
Kobe's memorial or why you weren't at d Wade's Hall
of Fame thing. And I'm like, I know for a
fact it has been verified by the La Times, Entertainment Tonight,
(08:15):
other outlets that lebron was absolutely at Kobe's memorial after
he passed away. And look at Diana Tarassi, and here's
what she had to say. Does this look like a
man who's not at the.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Building, I mean, who has a turner rate fadeaway jumper
at eleven Lebron barely got it today.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
No, that looks like a man that she's pointing at
because she sees him. And then Stephen A.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Smith realized because the fact checkers got him and he
was on air, and he says, oh, yo, I wasn't
saying that he wasn't there. I was saying that he
wasn't on camera. And there's a reason for that.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Man.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
You should have just got up on camera, taking yourself
too seriously and said listen, I messed up. I said
something wrong. I screwed up. That wasn't true. That's the
part that we gotta get to. And this is the
part where we have lost it in politics. We've lost
it in relationships, We've lost it in everything. When you
know the truth or you know you screwed something up,
(09:17):
just say, hey, yo, I blew it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I was one hundred percent wrong. I thought this and
I was wrong.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
But instead they try to spend it, try to make
it be something else, when all that's gonna do is unravel.
It's gonna unravel and cause more issues for you. And
then you got Lebron James airing out. Oh sorry, steven A.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Smithtoma.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
When you retired, Let's see how much I talk about you.
Then you won't matter much, I promise you. I mean
he might. Michael Jordan is still mattered, Kobe is still mattered.
The all time greats, Magic Johnson is still mattered. The
all time greats still matter. Like the the top three, one, two, three, four,
five guys always matter. So yes, you're still gonna talk
(09:59):
about them no matter what. But here is where Lebron
James was dead wrong. He was one one hundred percent
wrong on the Pat McAfee show for the way he
kind of talked about Brian went Windhorse, because Brian Windhorst
has essentially had to dedicate his life to following Lebron
around since he went to Cleveland and Miami then out
to La getting scoops and everything else. And at one
(10:20):
point in time, Bron said that he's probably the guy
that knows him the most in the media, and then
to kind of take a shot at Brian Winhurst. I
think Bron got caught up in a moment and that
wasn't cool because I guarant damn t you that Brian
Winhorse has kept some secrets, not even necessarily like nefarious stuff.
I'm saying like stuff that went on in the locker room,
(10:41):
stuff that was sad, stuff that Lebron did anything that
would have painted him in an unfavorable light. And Brian
Windhorst was like, nah, I'm not gonna say that I
will protect the access. I'm going to say it up
to a line and then we gonna chill there. So
I didn't think that that was cool. And then Kendrick Perkins,
(11:02):
who I just saw my daughter's birthday at Fixing Soul
Kitchen down there in La. Shout out Kevin Johnson, former
NBA player, former governor of Marrisach, Sacramento, owns fantastic soul
food spot. Amazing if you go to sac or La,
absolutely go. But anyways, he took a shot at Lebron.
(11:25):
He was like, why didn't you go on you know,
Channing Fry's podcast or this guy's podcast. Oh, but you
went on with with Steve Nash and you went on
with JJ Reddick, like kind of trying to imply that Lebron, oh,
he's caping for the white man, when in reality is
like the there's a portion of the white populace that
(11:46):
don't like Lebron at all. He's never been caping for anybody.
He's been trying to do his best at at trying
to spread spread whatever are his passions out in the world. Now,
has he made some missteps, Yes, nobody's purtracked, but the
intent has been good. But now this has turned into
(12:07):
like super personal and we've gotten to a point where,
like our sports media personalities have gotten so big that
instead that you know that it becomes more about being right,
because you got to say it with force. You gotta
say it with conviction, you gotta say it with passion,
you gotta say it. That's what they teach you. So
(12:30):
where's the human side of this? And this is where
Lebron is wrong to like criticize me. Oh, how you
cover the NBA. Well, there's stuff that's broken in the NBA.
Players not playing hard all the time, the whistles, the
load management, the NBA is trying to reel it all
back in. It's okay, But for stephen A to take
a shot at that man's son, I'd have turned up
to well, why didn't George, George, George, why didn't he
(12:52):
approach him?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Man to man?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Well, just a few weeks prior what happened, prior to
the incident at the at the court, what I happened?
Stephen A went on TV and was like, Yo, Maverick
Carter and Lebron's can't hit me up about what I
said on TV?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I thought this was a private conversation, fam, So now
ain't no point in reaching reaching out to you. I'm
gonna pull up on you and have a conversation. That's
all I got for you. And if you come at
my family, you've gone too far. But who do you
believe is winning this beef? Who do you believe is
the is the is on the right side of things
(13:32):
because Lebron's getting the internet memes they're cooking stephen.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
A on AI.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
But here's the thing, don't take yourself too seriously, Lebron,
stephen A Smith, y'all gonna be in twenty years probably
doing doing an interview talking about this and making making
up because you can't come for a man's family. You
come for a man's family, you're gonna get roughed up.
Usually that's just the facts.
Stephen A Smith versus Lebron James. You gotta pick a side,
But the real winner is not who you think it is.
I'm gonna tell you who it is and what's really
going on behind the scenes here on the Unafraid Show.
Make sure that you like, subscribe, get notifications, and tell
a friend about the show.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Let's get to it.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
For over a week now, stephen A Smith and Lebron
James have been going at it and people have picked Usie, Oh,
it's Lebron being too sensitive, steven A Smith's being too sensitive.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
But I'm gonna tell you who it is.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
ESPN is the only winner in this situation because they
just paid stephen A. Smith a boot pool load of
money some speculate up to one hundred million dollars and
on a night when Lebron hit the game winner, you
are in a playoff run in the NBA. Great players
doing great things. We're talking about steven A. Smith and
Pat McAfee and this the whole network. Brian winhors everybody else.
(01:12):
ESPN is like yes, ratings gold, So they are the
biggest winner in this situation. But the question is who's
at fault? And you know who's the person to blame.
So if you're not familiar with what happened. Obviously a
few weeks months ago, Steven A. Smith goes on First
Take and he pleads with Lebron Lebron as a father,
(01:35):
as a.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Father, you can't keep sending your son out there. And
as a man who's very, very protective of maturans, if
you come at me like that, the insinuation is, I
don't know what I'm doing as a daddy. I don't
know what I'm doing as a father.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And by all accounts now, mind, I have had the
personal privilege of watching Lebron James up close and personal,
Savannah up close and personal for like five years because
my kids and his kids went to the same school,
so had the privilege of seeing them up there, how
they interact with the faculty, how they interact with everybody.
And the dude is absolute gold in terms of how
(02:14):
he's acting as a parent. He's not trying to stampede
the coach, not trying to do none of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So as a dad, I.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Would be hot if you came at me like that,
like I'm doing something wrong to my kid. When there's
all this nepotism out in the world and my kid
I believe is actually talented, because every parent believes that
their kid is special, talented and everything else.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And Bronnie started to prove it even for all you haters.
Oh look at them moving the gold post box score,
box score, box score, look at the BLUs minus honest stuff. Right.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
But here is where Steven A. Smith has won because
he got to avenge. He got to avenge his boy,
Skip Bayless. By that, so Skip Bayless spent you know,
fifteen years banging on the Lebron drum just oh he's
not the go, don't have the clutch, gen and everything else.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Lebron just refused to respond to him. So now Stephen A.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Smith got what nobody has really gotten from Lebron James
in terms of like direct shot. He got a response.
So now that magnifies everything that Stephen A. Smith says.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
So Stephen A. Smith is winning in that aspect.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
He's proving his worth in terms of drumming up content,
drumming up interest in what he has to say about whatever,
whether it's politics, whether it's sports.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Anything like that. The man's engaging. You cannot say he's
not good at his job.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And also on a side note for all you people
that be like, oh he's a clowns.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
No, no, no, Steven A. Smith has put a lot
of folks on.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
He is not a guy who just hoards his fame
and opportunity and all of that. No, he's a guy
who tries to consistently help other people raise up. Now
with that, that does not mean that he's not being
Ralph Transmitt right now, I want a man.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
With sid steevity. Right now. Stephen A.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Smith is taking himself way too seriously because this is
the first time that he has been the butt of jokes.
He spent years and times on television being hypercritical of players.
Look at the Kwame Brown situation. Oh he's a bump,
small hands, not one post move that he can recite
from memory two times.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
In a row. That whole thing. It ain't no fun
when the rabbit got the gun. So yes, stephen A.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Smith, you could have just took the l right, and
then people actually have manipulated something else that Stephen A said.
And this one got banged out yesterday. This one got
circulated yesterday. So before y'all say, but I know y'all
want to say, I caught myself. So here is what
(04:51):
the clip that circulated yesterday was that man put his
hands on me, I would have immediately swung on them immediately.
So he was like, yo, if he's come at me,
I'm swinging at him. You're like, are you sure? But
prior to that, to his credit, he did say I'll
probably get my ass what by six eight two hundred
and fifty pounds man? So that clip hits a little
(05:13):
bit different and people aren't sharing that because it's funny
and the internet has no chill and black folks got
no chill on the internet. They are gonna make jokes
out of everything. And then Lebron did the ultimate middle
finger back. Because Lebron don't really do interviews. He don't
sign cards like he hasn't had a what a signed
card until recently, since like twenty fourteen. He don't do
(05:37):
card deals like that, sign deals, don't do none of
the stuff that people would traditionally do. Access to Lebron
for interviews is very very difficult, and Lebron is like cool.
He went on a New Heights podcast, then he went
on then he went on Pat McAfee yesterday, and there
is famous beef between Pat McAfee and Steven A.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Smith.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
There's work beef about who's the top dog at ESPN,
So that's kind of a slap in the face of
And he didn't just come on for five minutes, ten
minutes like bro was on for like an hour. So
that was a slap in the face of Stephen A.
And this is where I say Steven A. Smiths taking
himself way too seriously right now, because at some point
in time.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You gotta just laugh at yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Listen when the clips were circulating about the boxing and
then people were laughing, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Because look at this.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I don't know how we can look at that as
anything but comedy and hilarious because it don't look like
you could fight it all coupled with.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
What it said.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
So this is where sometimes you gotta let stuff roll
off your back. And he's a veteran, he knows that
people clipped it that way on purpose. And then he
fell literally into the sinkhole. And then after Lebron confronted
him at the game, then he went on the Press Store,
went on Gilbert Show, went on other shows, talking.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Big and bad and you know, like that ain't it, man,
That is not it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
And the fact that we have two of our most
prominent black figures out here beefing on the media.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Then you got Kendrick Perkins adding into it, this.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Ain't it and it is petty, and it has turned petty,
and it has turned more than personal.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And this is and this actually has led to Stephen A.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Smith saying something today that he had to retract that
was a flat out lie. And this is a debate
that I've had with people before. If you know something
is true and then you say the opposite, that's a lie.
If you are ignorant of information and you say something,
(07:49):
is that a lie?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You guys comming.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Down and is that a lie? Or is that I
just didn't know what the hell I was talking about?
So what happened today is Steven A. Smith he got
up on there and he said, oh, well, I'm not
even I haven't even talked about why you weren't at
Kobe's memorial or why you weren't at d Wade's Hall
of Fame thing. And I'm like, I know for a
fact it has been verified by the La Times, Entertainment Tonight,
(08:15):
other outlets that lebron was absolutely at Kobe's memorial after
he passed away. And look at Diana Tarassi, and here's
what she had to say. Does this look like a
man who's not at the.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Building, I mean, who has a turner rate fadeaway jumper
at eleven Lebron barely got it today.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
No, that looks like a man that she's pointing at
because she sees him. And then Stephen A.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Smith realized because the fact checkers got him and he
was on air, and he says, oh, yo, I wasn't
saying that he wasn't there. I was saying that he
wasn't on camera. And there's a reason for that.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Man.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
You should have just got up on camera, taking yourself
too seriously and said listen, I messed up. I said
something wrong. I screwed up. That wasn't true. That's the
part that we gotta get to. And this is the
part where we have lost it in politics. We've lost
it in relationships, We've lost it in everything. When you
know the truth or you know you screwed something up,
(09:17):
just say, hey, yo, I blew it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I was one hundred percent wrong. I thought this and
I was wrong.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
But instead they try to spend it, try to make
it be something else, when all that's gonna do is unravel.
It's gonna unravel and cause more issues for you. And
then you got Lebron James airing out. Oh sorry, steven A.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Smithtoma.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
When you retired, Let's see how much I talk about you.
Then you won't matter much, I promise you. I mean
he might. Michael Jordan is still mattered, Kobe is still mattered.
The all time greats, Magic Johnson is still mattered. The
all time greats still matter. Like the the top three, one, two, three, four,
five guys always matter. So yes, you're still gonna talk
(09:59):
about them no matter what. But here is where Lebron
James was dead wrong. He was one one hundred percent
wrong on the Pat McAfee show for the way he
kind of talked about Brian went Windhorse, because Brian Windhorst
has essentially had to dedicate his life to following Lebron
around since he went to Cleveland and Miami then out
to La getting scoops and everything else. And at one
(10:20):
point in time, Bron said that he's probably the guy
that knows him the most in the media, and then
to kind of take a shot at Brian Winhurst. I
think Bron got caught up in a moment and that
wasn't cool because I guarant damn t you that Brian
Winhorse has kept some secrets, not even necessarily like nefarious stuff.
I'm saying like stuff that went on in the locker room,
(10:41):
stuff that was sad, stuff that Lebron did anything that
would have painted him in an unfavorable light. And Brian
Windhorst was like, nah, I'm not gonna say that I
will protect the access. I'm going to say it up
to a line and then we gonna chill there. So
I didn't think that that was cool. And then Kendrick Perkins,
(11:02):
who I just saw my daughter's birthday at Fixing Soul
Kitchen down there in La. Shout out Kevin Johnson, former
NBA player, former governor of Marrisach, Sacramento, owns fantastic soul
food spot. Amazing if you go to sac or La,
absolutely go. But anyways, he took a shot at Lebron.
(11:25):
He was like, why didn't you go on you know,
Channing Fry's podcast or this guy's podcast. Oh, but you
went on with with Steve Nash and you went on
with JJ Reddick, like kind of trying to imply that Lebron, oh,
he's caping for the white man, when in reality is
like the there's a portion of the white populace that
(11:46):
don't like Lebron at all. He's never been caping for anybody.
He's been trying to do his best at at trying
to spread spread whatever are his passions out in the world. Now,
has he made some missteps, Yes, nobody's purtracked, but the
intent has been good. But now this has turned into
(12:07):
like super personal and we've gotten to a point where,
like our sports media personalities have gotten so big that
instead that you know that it becomes more about being right,
because you got to say it with force. You gotta
say it with conviction, you gotta say it with passion,
you gotta say it. That's what they teach you. So
(12:30):
where's the human side of this? And this is where
Lebron is wrong to like criticize me. Oh, how you
cover the NBA. Well, there's stuff that's broken in the NBA.
Players not playing hard all the time, the whistles, the
load management, the NBA is trying to reel it all
back in. It's okay, But for stephen A to take
a shot at that man's son, I'd have turned up
to well, why didn't George, George, George, why didn't he
(12:52):
approach him?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Man to man?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Well, just a few weeks prior what happened, prior to
the incident at the at the court, what I happened?
Stephen A went on TV and was like, Yo, Maverick
Carter and Lebron's can't hit me up about what I
said on TV?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I thought this was a private conversation, fam, So now
ain't no point in reaching reaching out to you. I'm
gonna pull up on you and have a conversation. That's
all I got for you. And if you come at
my family, you've gone too far. But who do you
believe is winning this beef? Who do you believe is
the is the is on the right side of things
(13:32):
because Lebron's getting the internet memes they're cooking stephen.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
A on AI.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
But here's the thing, don't take yourself too seriously, Lebron,
stephen A Smith, y'all gonna be in twenty years probably
doing doing an interview talking about this and making making
up because you can't come for a man's family. You
come for a man's family, you're gonna get roughed up.
Usually that's just the facts.
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