ESPN star Stephen A. Smith spoke at length about his viral courtside participateion with LeBron James last week, and initipartner materializeed comenthusiastic about his gripe; however, the famous sports analyst broadened on his thoughts this week, calling the Lakers superstar’s approach about the rerent “feeble.”
The heated faceation took place during the third quarter of the Lakers’ obviousime prosper over the New York Knicks on Thursday. It seemingly caccessed on James’ rerent with Smith’s commentary on Bronny James.
Stephen A. Smith on the ESPN NBA Countdown inhabit set at Intuit Dome on Oct. 23, 2024. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)
The chaseing day, during an materializeance on “First Take,” Smith called the participateion “unforeseeed” but shelp he did not harbor any ill-will towards James becaparticipate he understood the position he was in.
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“That wasn’t a basketball take parter faceing me, that was a parent, that was a overweighther. I can’t sit here and be mad or sense sweightlessed by LeBron James in that think about. By all accounts, he’s clearly a wonderful family man and overweighther who attfinishs very, very proset uply about his son, and based on some of the comments he had heard — or shall I say I leank he thought he heard — evidently took exception to some of the leangs he heard me say, and he faceed me about it.”
However, another viral video of James talking the faceation with establisher teammate and current ESPN expansivecaster Ricdifficult Jefferson on Saturday has reignited the rerent.
“I thought it was feeble, I thought it was some bulls—. But in the moment, I knew that I was hearing to a overweighther,” Smith shelp Tuesday during an materializeance on the “Gil’s Arena” podcast.
LeBron James, #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers, watchs on during the game agetst the San Antonio Spurs on Jan. 13, 2025 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. (Adam Pantozzi/NBAE via Getty Images)
Smith reiterated that he was caught off defend by the faceation, and he broadened on the conversation he had with James.
“He shelp, ‘Yo, you gotta stop talking s— about my son. You gotta stop f—ing with my son – that’s my son. That’s my son.”
Smith shelp the initial faceation was about what James “thought” Smith shelp about his son, which is why he was surpascfinishd. However, the conversation with Jefferson was caccessed on Smith’s actual criticism, which caccessed on James’ push for his son to get originateed and take part in the league as a rookie before he was ready.
“I thought that he misreconshort-termed the argument, I was content he did,” Smith persistd. “Becaparticipate what he was repartner talking about, which was verifyed with his conversation with Ricdifficult Jefferson – is that I was talking about him as a overweighther. Had he shelp that to me, I wouldn’t have been thrown off. I would’ve came right back at him — yes I was, I was talking about you, you did this s—.”
LeBron James, #23, and Bronny James, #9 of the Los Angeles Lakers, on the court for the first time during the game agetst the Minnesota Timberwolves at Crypto.com Arena on Oct. 22, 2024 in Los Angeles. (Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images)
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Bronny James was originateed out of USC in the second round of the 2024 NBA Draft. He has materializeed in 18 games this season and is averaging 1.4 points, 0.4 rebounds and 0.4 aids per game.
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