00:00I'm just gonna ask this question directly. You've lied to get your opinion on this
00:04true or false
00:07It's Stephen a while it right now
00:10True and that's my guy, but he's wildin
00:14He doesn't get he doesn't get the joke just of it
00:17He doesn't get the point and I don't know if maybe he just real you know what I think I'm gonna be honest
00:22This is what I think and I it's not I've talked to him or anything like that and he probably won't say it is I
00:27Just got that I just got the bag, right
00:30Yeah, he's got a hundred million dollar bag. Yo, I just got the bag. I'm hot right now
00:35This is gaining a lot of traction. Let me continue this
00:39Let me continue this because if I just got the deal now, and I'm even hot
00:43This is putting my name out there even more. I
00:46Mean, you know come a year or two. I can renegotiate
00:50In a while, but like this is crazy. He's the only one that brings this up
00:55Love the pettiness by LeBron because in LeBron went to ESPN, but he didn't talk to him
01:01You didn't talk to him this show. He talked to it a show after him
01:05That's pettiness right there. I've never seen LeBron like do one of those things on ESPN
01:09I not only SPN other people's platforms or his own he may do that, but that's it second. I just love it
01:16It's like John Cena do what a year
01:1925 John Cena LeBron James if they just turn heel they look like I'm not a baby face. I'm not a heel
01:24I'm you
01:26LeBron was heel in Miami though. You gotta admit. Well, you know, you know, he was hated but
01:31Nonetheless, he's he's at his final. He's at his final stages of his career. He just didn't like him and Stephen
01:37They never got along
01:38I think it was kind of known but not publicly known but you kind of got the gist of it like you had you got
01:43The idea that they didn't really mess with each other
01:45But now you know what's going on and like I said, and I think everyone knew we were also when he made that comment about
01:54Bronny
01:55Bronny's game. Bronny was getting torched by Tyrese maxi
01:59The whole team was but there was context to that
02:02They were I think the third game in four nights and they were also had two guys who were hurt in the backcourt
02:08so Tyrese maxis one of these one of them ones and
02:12Yeah, it was a play where he busted Bronny's ass
02:15but when you go as a
02:18Father like Marcos, I can't come to you and say as a father. You shouldn't let tadpole do this or that no
02:26No, I'm talking about your parental skills. I'm judging you. No, I can't do that
02:30That is not my place nor was it Stephen a space now if you're talking about as a player like nah
02:36Hey Lakers as an organization
02:38Don't do that or that to you know, don't have Bronny out there. That's one thing
02:43But when you say as a father, please please not now, I got it. I got to check you now
02:48I got it. Now. You got to talk to me and then
02:52Stephen a come on man
02:54You always say Pete. I'm never I'm outside. I'm outside
02:57well
02:57you outside and man came up to you and you realize six nine two sixties a little bit different than
03:02When it's face to face to you then when it is on TV screen or when you're in the studio
03:07so
03:09now the
03:12Quote that is currently going viral as of right now is
03:17Of you know, it's it's taken a bit out of context, but he still did say it, you know
03:24Stephen a Smith claiming that he would have swung on LeBron. Come on, man. Come on now
03:31Again, I do say that it was taken out of context because Stephen a does go on to admit that you know six foot nine
03:37He probably would have got pummeled immediately after if you know, you're gonna get pummeled why you gonna swing
03:42No, sometimes you have to bro. So like let's say I'm with my girl and I'm
03:47In in what sense when you know that you made a comment see this is not one of those instances
03:55Yeah, in another instance, yes, I can understand that this wasn't one of those instances this ain't it buddy
04:01It's not a good look for the talking head at ESPN and
04:07you know, I'm not gonna say this is gonna become the decline of Stephen a Smith, but
04:13Not a good look to not a good look. It is. Yeah Marcos. Yeah, if the Lakers make the finals
04:20And he wins
04:23You know awkward it's gonna be when Stephen a has to try to talk to LeBron LeBron's not answering any of his questions
04:30That's awkward. That's gonna be and it may lead to other superstars who don't really mess with him like that
04:36Not speaking to him and now what happens when the you're the face of your network or the voice of your network in the sport
04:43That you know, he is known for it's not getting all the people now he could say
04:48Yeah, he's talking to all the execs and all that stuff. That's cool
04:51You know, that's cool. Nobody but the the public the public doesn't care about if you talk to an NBA exec
04:57They want to know if you're talking to the NBA superstar
04:59So you you guys are absolutely
05:03talking about
05:05Bronies, you know, yeah
05:07This is this is a full quote from him. This is Stephen a addressing LeBron James appearance on the Pat McAfee show
05:13I just want to say for the record LeBron James is full of it
05:16And in this particular instance as it pertains to his son, he is a liar
05:20He went on national television today and he lied again
05:23You see when he approached me while I was sitting courtside at that game against the New York Knicks when he rolled up on me
05:28I didn't know he was gonna roll up on me
05:30I had no idea
05:31But when he said what he had to say I was in no position to give any kind of retort without making a scene
05:36He goes on to say let me stay for the record that while we bring up that let me assure you it wouldn't have gone
05:42Down like that talking about comparing the situation to the Chris Rock Will Smith situation
05:47He says I would have gotten my ass kicked
05:50Because had this man put hands on me, I would have immediately swung on
05:55I'll immediately that I'm not going to tolerate but I knew he wasn't going to do something like that
06:05That's okay, let me let me let me explain some to you. Yeah
06:10We take on the cap. We take the professionalism of
06:16People
06:17to determine
06:19What they are and aren't gonna do
06:21So you come up with this hypothetical situation
06:25Very hypothetical think think about this
06:30Would he go to after some of those Knicks of the 90s like that
06:35No, because those guys were scrappy no
06:39Because it's he know what's up. He know LeBron
06:43Stephen a feels like
06:46From this is just from the way he's talking away just his comments
06:50It's as if he feels like he's got to hold on to the 90s and 2000 era
06:55because people are
06:57people are
07:00Loving this era this this current generation of superstars and maybe taking a shot at the the previous generation
07:08so
07:09Therefore it's as if he's the the media member who's got a he still got the cachet, obviously
07:14so he's got to be the one that still remind people like oh no the era that I was growing up in or the
07:2090s and 2000 era was better and it's that's why he'll know he would have never done that to Oakley
07:25He would have never done that to mace. He would have never done that to Karl Malone
07:28He would have definitely never done that to Michael because everybody kissed the you know
07:32Ground Mike who walked on and they still do because they're afraid of the man. Come on, man. He's still John DeSais, but nonetheless
07:45You know Michael Jordan's a great man everything he's done always anything he touches is great except for those Charlotte Hornets, but uh,
07:52Yeah, and that's the other thing. They're so afraid of that. So this it's weird because it's like alright this generation
07:58That's their guy every generation has their guy whether it's music
08:02acting
08:04Sports everybody has every generation has their guy and if their guy is great
08:08They're gonna compare it to the other greats from previous generations
08:11It's just now we're in a social media world where you have access to to compare things, you know
08:17Yeah, we saw Michael Jordan play, but guess what?
08:20Not enjoyed him playing this primers. It's nearly 30 years ago. That's a long time folks
08:25That's a long time people gonna have their own version of who they go to just I just think as
08:31again as a person that's seen all
08:37You know different sports and all different errors
08:41Right, I would say
08:43You just take today's error for what it is
08:47I'm not comparing it to another
08:50You know error because I do believe that
08:54NBA
08:56NFL and
09:00Basketball I mean in hockey or baseball elite players would have been able to play in any era
09:07Right, like it's just that that's just the way I you know, I believe that and
09:14To say that. Oh this guy wouldn't have been able to do this. This guy wouldn't have been
09:19Could you imagine Karl Malone being a damn point guard?
09:23No
09:24You tell me LeBron couldn't play like
09:31The bombs point I mean a lot of those guys were playing against guys who had second jobs, you know
09:35I mean I had to do just second jobs at the end
09:38Listen, I'm not knocking
09:43No, no, I agree with you I'm just saying we cannot listen we love sports sports evolves just like life
09:49Don't you think we all would love cheap, you know guys gas at 5-7. Hey, I'd like to buy eggs for cheap
09:56Now they got to sell Lucy eggs. This is you know, things change things happen. Those Lucy eggs really got to you
10:05That's crazy
10:10Hey, hey, that's the crazy part
10:13like listen
10:15You know in the pack of cigarettes and say
10:18Not to be so
10:21But if you go to the corner store
10:24Right, you best believe somebody buying a single smoke. Definitely. Yeah
10:29Yes, they will but so it's it's it's crazy, but I just feel like
10:34It's almost as if he's being told or not even be him being told he's being emboldened just
10:41To stand up and be the voice for the previous
10:47repercussions
10:49Like if if if he was from the 70s or 80s and he was making that argument and
10:55Saying stuff like this to them guys in the 90s. He would have got dealt with on a different level
11:00But my funny Lee word listen what you just said so these 90s guys are acting like this towards this current generation
11:06What do you think the 70s and 80s guys were thinking about them? Right like
11:12That's why I don't compare like I don't like that. I think great players
11:17Would have been great because guess what we talked about
11:23We talked about
11:25Like guys like Larry Bird and how non-athletic they were or whatever
11:33One of the best players in the league is not seem like doesn't look like an athletic Adonis and as Joker
11:41so you have
11:43different versions of the same
11:47player but what has changed in all of sports and
11:52this is in
11:55a lot of different sports
11:57okay is the fact that a
12:03Six
12:04foot guard in say Isaiah Thomas
12:08That dude is now six five six six six seven
12:13with still the same handles
12:15And I'll swing on it. And so when you say, you know
12:21What there's more Magic Johnson's there's more guys six seven six eight six nine can handle the ball
12:28Then there was when Magic Johnson was doing it
12:31Woody like so like that the different errors and
12:36How it's evolved
12:39Right. Could you imagine?
12:41Could you imagine a lineup today? I don't care how physical
12:48It was in the 70s and 80s and 90s
12:53But when your smallest guy on your team is six five
12:58six six on the court
13:00Yo, ho, yeah your center and your two forwards are all six ten
13:06seven foot it's six eleven, right? That's a different style of
13:12like basketball
13:14Those bigs are so much more skilled then let's just get 20 rebounds and some putbacks
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