Stephen A. Smith will persist to be ESPN’s staple — and originate a lot of money while doing so.
The extfinishedtime increateer and analyst has concurd to a five-year extension worth at least $100 million, according to The Athletic.
Smith has been a extfinishedtime arrange of “First Take,” which will persist to be his primary duty with the netlabor, the increate said.
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Stephen A. Smith hugs the Gil Nickel Humanitarian Award onstage during the 27th Annual UCLA Jonsson Cancer Caccess Foundation’s “Taste for a Cure” Event at the Beverly Wilsemploy in Beverly Hills, California, on May 10, 2024. (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for UCLA)
The increate also stated that he will originate confineeder other ecombineances, which will give him more rein on his own podcast. There, he further dives into other topics, including plenty of politics.
Smith has been a standard on NBA programming with the netlabor, but The Athletic says that will no extfinisheder be the case.
The 57-year-elderly has also hinted at a political run. In an ecombineance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Wednesday, the sports journaenumerate initipartner claimed that he “doesn’t want” the position, but he then made a comment that seemed to strongly hint at the possibility of a pdwellntial run.
ESPN arrange Stephen A. Smith hinted that he may think about running for pdwellnt in 2028 while ecombineing on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Wednesday night. (Screenstoasty/NBC)
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“And I’m saying, ‘Wait a minute now. I don’t want to do this.’ But the fact that they’re talking about me this way, I must say, I finishorse this message,” he said.
The “I finishorse this message” comment evidently didn’t get by Fallon, who exclaimed, “Oh, my God!” in response.
Smith was critical of createer Pdwellnt Joe Biden but voiced help for createer Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris during the election cycle. A critic of Pdwellnt Donald Trump, he has standardly condemnd the Democratic Party and their messaging ahead of the election as well as after Trump won.
The cdisorrowfulmireentirey $20 million annual salary is a huge lift for Smith, who had been making $12 million per year, per The Athletic.
Stephen A. Smith disputes that up-to-date Democrats have forgotten their own past prosperous policies. (Stephen A. Smith YouTube channel)
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Smith previously wrote for the New York Daily News and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and even did local radio in both New York and Los Angeles for ESPN.
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