Stephen A. Smith said he made the call to be removed from “NBA Countdown.”

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00:00The New York Post is out with an article about me and apparently it's like breaking news or

00:04something like that. Stephen A. Smith is not on NBA Countdown. I'm kind of disappointed because

00:09that means, you know, somebody's not watching me and I'm used to everybody watching. I negotiated

00:13a new deal with ESPN, a new five-year deal. That deal was negotiated between June of 2024

00:20and March into April of 2025. I didn't want to be on the show. I negotiated coming off of it.

00:29Now, I love doing NBA Countdown, but once the Countdown show is over, I got other things

00:35to do than to be in studio watching the doubleheader and coming on at halftimes. I got other stuff

00:42that I want to do to prepare for first take the next day, the next morning, and to do an

00:47abundance of other things that I aspire to do. Of course, I'm still there to contribute.

00:51You see me, ladies and gentlemen, I'm on Monday night Countdown for the NFL. I've been on there

00:56twice. I'll be on there a third time when the Eagles visit the Los Angeles Chargers.