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Speaker 1 (00:01):
ESPN adjusted its NBA coverage this week and rolled out
its new look NBA Countdown Team led by Melika Andrews
with Brian Windhorst, Kendrick Perkins, and Michael Malone. Stephen A.
Smith did not appear on the new lineup and has
not shown up on the program at all this preseason
or regular season. For the first time in more than

(00:24):
twenty years, steven A will not participate in the NBA
Countdown Show. According to ESPN, it has expanded its NBA
coverage after adding Inside the NBA with Charles Barkley, Shack,
Kenny Smith, and Ernie Johnson. But even with steven A
being removed from the Countdown Team, he remains locked into ESPN.

(00:46):
You know, he just signed that five year, one hundred
and five million dollar extension this year that was earlier, so.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
At least he still works there. So what are you
making of this, Steve?

Speaker 3 (00:57):
That is because he got no friends in nim B
a ah, so you have to have what.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yeah, he said, Well, you know, all great reporters have
had a rapport with the star athlete in that particular sport.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
We know that Ron, Yeah, all of them.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Howard Coach had Mohammad Ali got you, uh, costas.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Had Michael Jordan. Michael, you don't, you cannot.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
I'm just this in my opinion about career Jordan's he
they man relationship. You've got to be somebody that the
players want to talk to.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Okay, but on his On the flip side of that, though,
stephen A as a reporter is supposed to be biased
and just you know, report what he sees.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
He's supposed to be biased.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
If you gonna talk about the sport, you can't be
all in these cats background, right, A.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Lot of about the opinion part of it.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah, man, Hey, the problem with him and Lebron was
when he got into Lebron as a father, right, And look, man,
here's against my wishes. What I this was just me talking.
Hey man, I would have apologized to Lebron and said,
hey man, you know what, my bad overstepped my bounds.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
I should have never said nothing about you being a dad.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
That's that would have fixed it. Hey man, I'm sorry, bro,
my bad. You're absolutely right. I was out of line
for that. There's nothing wrong with being wrong, But when
but when you hold the line? Man, if he if
he'd have raised up, I had to put hands on him.
You to put hands on who, he'd have put you

(02:59):
in one of them sleep eves. He'd be weahing sixty.
It's just kind is a physical specimen. And even though
Lebron don't fight, we we.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Know who don't fight. We saw his punching.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
You talk about that videos he was working on a
box see and I used to fight.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
When I saw that punch, I went, what dog.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Let me tell you something. I've been in the gym
a lot. I've been a lot of bags man. Ain't
Nobody said though that.

Speaker 5 (03:39):
He didn't have no technique, no back foot, no.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Spin, no rotation, no no rotat not none of that.
Let me see that punching. That go ahead. Excuse me.
So with this t VN A Smith video when he
was boxing.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
So is this considered a demotion? I mean, what what?
What is this?

Speaker 3 (04:00):
I don't think it's a demotion.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
I just think you know, it's just they gotta they
gotta build a network. They got people. They got some
good people. That Perk is good man. There's some cats
in there that's good. Milika Andrews is good man. I
tell you another sister, I like the Duncan l Duncan. Yeah, Oh,

(04:22):
she's she's dope to me, man, she's knowledgeable, she is dope.
Beautiful her and Melika Andrews, I mean they really know. Uh,
you know, it's it's uh. They got some women on
that at no sport. The sister will shorthand that I
like her and I love the ball heads, the ball
haired girl.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Beautiful clap clap.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
They're expanding. So it's true what you think. They are
just expanding.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Its expanding. You know, you can't put everything you know.

Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yeah, all right, at the end of the day, he
knows sports, run and backwards.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
He got down to a sign. Yeah, this job.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
But he got to get all off all the other subjects.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, great statement.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
All right to Christine Williamson, that's the system that we
were talking about. Okay, yeah, all right, So moving on
to wow. According to The Hill, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck
Schumer has said that the Senate is ready to act
quickly on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which passed in

(05:40):
the House four hundred and twenty seven to one. This
would require that all unclassified records and documents related to
the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein be made public. Finally,
Schumer noted, the House has now spoken in an overwhelming fashion.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
There's only one right answer.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
For the Senate passed the bill as written today, the
bipartisan bill will announce the messa.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Surely, don't stop reading all that. He not in there
no more.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
It's gone, there's gone. Trump not in there no more.
They took all they got cash for tail in his
hip pocket. You don't think they don't win them files.
Donald Trump name is out that because now he's saying,
let's release these files.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Good. Hell well, he ain't in there no more. Kiln
had them file all in his kitchen up on the stove.
They got all the files. They was reading it.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
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