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00:00:00.620 So LeBron James addresses Stephen A. Smith's confrontation for the first time.

00:00:05.200 And so where does LeBron go?

00:00:06.920 To the direct competitor of Stephen A. Smith.

00:00:09.340 He goes to the Pat McAfee show, okay?

00:00:11.700 Just to say, hey, I'm going to this guy over you.

00:00:15.180 And we know he's doing that.

00:00:16.580 The guys that follow these stories know what's going on.

00:00:19.240 But let's go ahead and play this clip.

00:00:20.680 Go for it, Rob.

00:00:21.700 Which leads, obviously, to you and Stephen A.

00:00:25.700 Hey, legit, that feels like a moment that had been brewing for a long time.

00:00:29.340 He's like on a Taylor Swift tour run right now.

00:00:32.420 Oh, yeah.

00:00:32.720 Yeah, we're watching it.

00:00:33.660 We're all seeing it.

00:00:34.820 You're seeing it as well.

00:00:35.960 No, he literally started off with, I didn't want to address it.

00:00:41.500 Yeah, sure.

00:00:42.060 I didn't want to address it.

00:00:43.680 I wasn't going to address it.

00:00:45.380 But since the video came out, I feel the need to address it.

00:00:49.380 You wouldn't be not to talk about it.

00:00:51.160 Are you kidding me?

00:00:52.240 If there's one person that couldn't wait to the video to drop so you could address it, 1.00

00:00:56.920 it's your ass. 1.00

00:00:57.620 Like, seriously. 1.00

00:00:58.140 Honestly, I, it's, and like another, he completely like missed the whole point.

00:01:06.280 The whole point.

00:01:08.200 Never in my, never would I ever not allow people to talk about the sport,

00:01:14.980 criticize players about what they do on the court.

00:01:18.360 That is your job to criticize or to, you know, be in a position where, okay, if a guy's not

00:01:25.400 performing, you know, that is all, that is all part of the game.

00:01:29.460 That's all part of the game. 0.98

00:01:30.520 But when you take it and you get personal with it, it's my job to not only protect my damn 0.98

00:01:38.240 household, but protect the players, you know? 0.98

00:01:41.020 And I think, and I think a lot of the media, including him, and I know that he's going to, he's going to be happy as hell.

00:01:47.660 He's going to be smiling from ear to ear when he hears me talking about it.

00:01:51.920 Oh my God. 0.99

00:01:53.220 He's going to get home and grab some ice cream out of the fucking freezer and sit in his chair and his tighty whiteys on the couch. 0.99

00:02:00.620 I hope at some point you two do get a chance, but you're right there a little bit. 0.99

00:02:04.760 Like, relax, bro.

00:02:06.400 Like, relax.

00:02:07.400 Like, seriously.

00:02:08.660 Yeah.

00:02:09.020 So Stephen A responds to this in a couple different ways, Rob.

00:02:12.720 I don't know if you have it or not, but until you find it, which is fine, LeBron goes in troll mode and he posts a picture because Stephen A said,

00:02:22.640 if you get to my face, is this the one, Rob?

00:02:24.500 Yes.

00:02:25.000 Okay.

00:02:25.260 Go ahead and play this clip.

00:02:26.500 Man put his hands on me. 0.77

00:02:27.620 I would have immediately swung on him.

00:02:30.180 Immediately.

00:02:30.620 That man put his hands on me.

00:02:33.440 Now, by the way, to his defense, he came back and said, guys, play the entire clip because he did say, nah, he would have destroyed me.

00:02:41.160 Oh, yes.

00:02:41.420 But I'm just saying.

00:02:42.300 Okay.

00:02:42.580 I would have reacted to it.

00:02:43.800 Yeah.

00:02:43.940 No, he did.

00:02:44.500 Of course he qualified it.

00:02:45.600 But then LeBron went and posted this on his Instagram account.

00:02:51.040 Okay.

00:02:52.700 Okay, S.A.

00:02:55.660 So obviously there's a lot of fun going on with this year, but he had a full on reaction.

00:03:00.600 But before I go there, Adam, your thoughts and I'll show you the clip on Stephen A.

00:03:03.980 You know, we're talking about goats here.

00:03:06.800 Now, if they're going to play one-on-one and play basketball or even fight, put your money on LeBron.

00:03:13.820 You're putting your money on Stephen A.

00:03:15.740 But LeBron, respect to you, buddy, on the court, off the court.

00:03:20.020 You're also a family man.

00:03:21.640 When it comes to debating, when it comes to having the verbiage, when it comes to speaking, you're talking to the goat right here.

00:03:28.720 This is Stephen A., arguably the greatest sports commentator of all time. 0.86

00:03:33.240 Or trash talker. 0.99

00:03:34.240 Trash talker. 0.98

00:03:34.920 So you don't want to go into that ring with Stephen A. 0.99

00:03:39.540 Stay on your side.

00:03:40.820 So, you know, how LeBron was talking about, listen, you know, I'm going to stand up for my other players or stand up, you know, as a father.

00:03:48.220 Let's not get it twisted.

00:03:49.480 You're not standing up for any other players to Stephen A. like this.

00:03:53.740 You're standing up for one player and one player only.

00:03:56.440 And his name is LeBron James Jr., a.k.a. Bronny James.

00:04:01.020 So Stephen A. has every right to criticize an NBA player and say, look, maybe he ain't cut out for the league.

00:04:09.380 But you know what just happened? 0.97

00:04:10.580 Actually, turned out it actually was motivation and fire under Bronny James' butt. 0.97

00:04:16.600 Why?

00:04:17.180 Because a week or so later, a guy who was averaging .5 points a game, not even a full point,

00:04:23.220 came out at a career height, 16 points, playing for the Lakers while LeBron was out of the game.

00:04:28.720 So maybe this was the thing that Bronny needed to get into the league.

00:04:33.040 Let's not forget, Bronny has not played much college or professional basketball.

00:04:38.620 Remember, he played for USC for like a half a season because he was out the first half of the season with a heart condition.

00:04:46.200 Let's not make any assumptions.

00:04:47.680 Whatever.

00:04:47.920 Let's just go with the understanding.

00:04:49.340 Whatever would make an 18-year-old heart stop.

00:04:51.820 Whatever.

00:04:52.100 Everybody can make their own opinion.

00:04:55.660 Last point.

00:04:56.660 It is very interesting.

00:04:58.520 You know, Pat, you called it his rival, Pat McAfee.

00:05:02.340 You know, a lot of people don't know the inside stuff, to quote Ahmad Shad with this thing right here.

00:05:07.100 But Pat McAfee, he signed a $100 million contract, whatever it was, a couple years ago.

00:05:13.560 Stephen A. Smith has been under contract negotiations for what feels like years.

00:05:17.640 And it just got solidified this month, $100 million for, I believe, four years, five years.

00:05:23.340 It's competitive.

00:05:24.160 Okay.

00:05:24.420 So it's competitive.

00:05:25.760 Play this clip.

00:05:26.520 What he had to say, I was in no position to give any kind of retort without making a scene.

00:05:34.840 It was during the third quarter.

00:05:36.620 It was fresh out of a timeout.

00:05:38.520 It was him walking to the basketball court.

00:05:41.080 It was on national television.

00:05:42.720 The cameras were rolling.

00:05:44.400 And had I done something, what do y'all want me to do?

00:05:47.140 You want me to act new?

00:05:48.240 You want this to be a reincarnation of Chris Rock and Will Smith?

00:05:54.080 And let me state for the record that while we bring up that, let me assure you, it wouldn't have gone down like that. 0.99

00:06:00.300 I would have gotten my ass kicked. 0.99

00:06:02.560 Because had that man put his hands on me, I would have immediately swung on him. 1.00

00:06:06.840 Immediately.

00:06:07.280 That, I'm not going to tolerate.

00:06:11.300 But I knew he wasn't going to do something like that.

00:06:13.860 There was no fear in my mind about it.

00:06:15.980 It was shock.

00:06:17.700 Because as I have repeatedly stated, I was not talking about his son.

00:06:23.800 I was talking about him.

00:06:27.460 Is that it, Rob?

00:06:28.360 Yes, sir.

00:06:28.860 Yeah, there's a clip. 0.87

00:06:29.700 There's a clip there that he says LeBron is a liar. 0.99

00:06:31.800 He's shady. 0.99

00:06:32.420 He's this.

00:06:32.960 He's that.

00:06:33.520 He's this.

00:06:34.920 And I'll try to find that clip.

00:06:36.440 I mean, he kind of is, though.

00:06:38.560 He what?

00:06:39.480 LeBron kind of is.

00:06:41.480 Just from the past couple years with everything from, you know, when he came to China, when the NBA was making all this money, he stayed quiet.

00:06:48.380 Is this it, Rob?

00:06:49.080 Yes.

00:06:49.520 This is it.

00:06:49.960 Go for it.

00:06:50.280 Play this clip.

00:06:50.860 This is it.

00:06:51.260 Go ahead.

00:06:52.780 But don't the truth matter?

00:06:55.980 Because there's one person in this ordeal that's telling the truth.

00:06:59.760 And it's me.

00:07:01.980 I don't lie to y'all. 1.00

00:07:03.640 Now, his ass lies a lot. 0.99

00:07:10.860 And there's a lot of shady stuff that he does. 1.00

00:07:15.200 And one of the things is his passive aggressiveness.

00:07:18.780 And the two-facedness.

00:07:20.380 And smile on your face and dig you behind the back.

00:07:22.980 I happen to know that about him.

00:07:27.860 Which is why I don't like him. 0.99

00:07:30.440 Damn. 0.99

00:07:31.000 And he don't like me. 1.00

00:07:32.240 That's right.

00:07:32.700 But it doesn't stop me from being fair and calling it like I see it.

00:07:40.120 We ain't exchanging Christmas gifts.

00:07:41.800 We ain't having Thanksgiving dinner together.

00:07:43.660 What you bring your son up in there for?

00:07:46.400 What you bring your family up in there before?

00:07:48.220 You gonna go on Pat McAfee's show.

00:07:49.660 Talk about you gonna protect your house.

00:07:51.180 What you talking about?

00:07:52.540 Your son ain't at the house.

00:07:53.860 He's at Crypto.com Arena.

00:07:55.680 We ain't covering him in Brentwood.

00:07:57.480 We covering him in downtown LA at the Crypto.com Arena.

00:08:02.640 Where you put him.

00:08:06.140 Yeah.

00:08:06.920 So, and by the way, that's the criticism.

00:08:10.600 He says another story.

00:08:11.500 He says, you know, LeBron's always been the guy that's been the passive aggressive guy.

00:08:15.060 And he says he's the guy that will say something to your face and it go behind your back.

00:08:18.500 I don't trust this guy.

00:08:19.580 He said this straight up about what he called it, LeBron, and how he is.

00:08:24.180 And then later on, the topic of discussion came up about Michael Jordan.

00:08:27.140 Rob, do you have that one?

00:08:28.400 I do.

00:08:28.820 Okay.

00:08:29.040 So, he's asked about Michael.

00:08:30.540 He says, how often do you guys speak?

00:08:31.880 Right?

00:08:32.940 And this is so funny because of...

00:08:35.300 He said, never, I believe.

00:08:35.980 Yeah.

00:08:36.300 Well, he says he explains why Michael said we can't speak.

00:08:39.680 I don't know if he says it in this clip, but go for it, Rob.

00:08:42.120 Okay.

00:08:42.460 So, you and Michael at a good spot.

00:08:45.140 Who, me and Michael?

00:08:45.900 Jordan?

00:08:46.380 Yeah, we're at a good spot.

00:08:47.680 We don't talk.

00:08:49.040 Why not, you think?

00:08:50.760 Because I'm still playing.

00:08:52.840 I think I'm still playing.

00:08:53.700 Man, I'm still focused on my craft right now.

00:08:55.900 When you're done, you think you two will be the only two that can have a conversation?

00:08:58.660 I would hope so.

00:08:59.420 You know, the funny thing is, me and Kobe, besides our, you know, the late, great Kobe,

00:09:03.700 obviously, me and Kobe never had a real relationship either until we was on the Olympic team.

00:09:09.740 We had a great relationship there.

00:09:11.440 Olympic team 8, Olympic team 12.

00:09:13.540 But it was always competitive between us.

00:09:15.640 We were always like, I was on the East Coast, he was on the West Coast.

00:09:18.360 And it was like, even though we never, I fucked up one time in, you know, 0-9 and didn't beat Orlando.

00:09:25.200 And I think it was 0-9, didn't beat Orlando and didn't get him an opportunity to play him in the finals.

00:09:29.180 But like-

00:09:29.340 That's when Dwight Howard made it to the finals?

00:09:31.540 Until I became a Laker and then he retired, that's when our relationship, like, became really, really good.

00:09:39.120 Yeah.

00:09:39.280 You know, he, like, welcomed me, called me, like, bro, anything you need in L.A., like, I got you, you're a Laker now, you're family, you know.

00:09:46.140 And we would have multiple conversations.

00:09:47.920 He was, obviously, you guys saw him coming to a lot of games and things of that nature.

00:09:51.120 And when I passed him in the scoring record in Philly, you know, I think he had a tweet out there, like, keep on going.

00:09:57.220 Like, keep transcending the game, keep going. 0.99

00:09:59.260 Like, and that shit, like, meant so much to me. 0.99

00:10:00.880 So, like, I think it's because I'm still playing, you know. 0.99

00:10:04.140 And MJ, we all know MJ.

00:10:06.560 Even if you don't know him personally, he's one of the most ruthless competitors there is.

00:10:12.660 And until I'm done and he doesn't have to look at me run up and down wearing the number 23, 0.98

00:10:18.320 and every time my name is mentioned, it's mentioned with his, he's like, I don't want to fucking talk to you. 0.91

00:10:22.900 Yeah, I'm on a golf course. 0.98

00:10:24.080 Yeah, I'm on a golf course.

00:10:25.160 Don't talk to me right now.

00:10:26.140 I'm on a back nine.

00:10:27.240 Do not call me.

00:10:27.900 It was great to see y'all at the top 75.

00:10:29.920 Oh, yeah, that was dope.

00:10:30.500 That was dope.

00:10:30.900 Yeah, that was dope.

00:10:31.480 That's straight respect.

00:10:34.460 Admiration and just, like, you know, me for sure. 1.00

00:10:38.000 I mean, shit, like I said, I wear 23 because of MJ, you know, and that shit. 0.97

00:10:43.220 The inspiration that he gave me as a kid at Akron, Ohio, that don't have much inspiration in your hometown. 0.99

00:10:48.560 What do they rank at the top 75, the 75 best players, that one thing?

00:10:52.820 Where do they rank, Michael?

00:10:54.220 Where do they rank LeBron?

00:10:55.380 Do they rank it in order, in the hierarchical order?

00:10:57.360 I don't know if they do, because they came.

00:10:58.380 I think they just put.

00:10:59.580 They came in a 75th anniversary rank.

00:11:01.880 Like, so this is the NBA's 75th anniversary, ranked 76 basketball legends.

00:11:07.040 Check it.

00:11:07.520 What year was this, Rob?

00:11:09.040 2022.

00:11:10.140 Okay.

00:11:10.800 That's, yeah.

00:11:11.980 Okay.

00:11:12.500 He won the.

00:11:13.540 Okay.

00:11:13.900 So go see who's in the top 10.

00:11:15.740 Who do they have in their top 10?

00:11:17.140 All the way down.

00:11:17.740 Well, Isaiah Thomas, number one.

00:11:19.120 We know that.

00:11:19.920 Yeah, for sure.

00:11:21.360 Obviously.

00:11:21.760 And by the way, he said something else in the podcast.

00:11:24.160 Okay.

00:11:24.360 Let's go through.

00:11:24.820 Let's see who they have.

00:11:25.700 Durant 12.

00:11:26.920 Ahead of Olajuwon.

00:11:28.000 I don't know.

00:11:28.660 Shaq is 11?

00:11:30.220 Okay.

00:11:30.820 I don't know about that.

00:11:31.340 Let's see who that.

00:11:32.520 Kobe above Shaq? 0.85

00:11:34.500 No, but that's not the point.

00:11:35.600 Kobe 10th?

00:11:36.680 Keep going.

00:11:37.420 Keep going.

00:11:38.440 Oscar 9th?

00:11:39.500 Oscar Robertson.

00:11:40.280 Mr. Triple Double.

00:11:41.500 Tim Duncan?

00:11:42.160 Can you see how many championships Oscar Robertson won?

00:11:44.940 He averaged a tip.

00:11:45.860 He was like Russell Westbrook.

00:11:48.400 That's not.

00:11:49.040 Back in the day.

00:11:49.580 How many championships did he win?

00:11:52.780 Did Oscar Robertson win?

00:11:54.300 I thought it was only one he won.

00:11:56.420 Yeah, he won one championship.

00:11:57.740 Why do you put him ahead of him?

00:11:58.780 That's so weird to me.

00:11:59.940 I don't know. 0.96

00:12:00.340 Who the hell? 0.95

00:12:00.840 I can't trust the rest of it. 0.84

00:12:02.460 12-time NBA player.

00:12:03.300 I can't trust the rest of it.

00:12:04.160 Milwaukee Bucks in 71.

00:12:04.640 I cannot trust the rest of it.

00:12:05.360 Was Kareem there at that time?

00:12:06.960 Keep going, Rob.

00:12:07.820 I have no respect for this list now.

00:12:10.040 Tim Duncan.

00:12:10.540 Tim Duncan, Mr. Fundamental.

00:12:11.720 Here we go. 0.97

00:12:12.320 Give it a freaking break. 0.97

00:12:13.740 He's got five championships. 0.92

00:12:15.080 Pat already doesn't like this list.

00:12:16.220 Let's see what's going on here.

00:12:17.480 Larry Legend at seven.

00:12:19.020 Two championships.

00:12:20.560 Yeah, but you've got to put a white. 0.96

00:12:22.420 Reverse DEI for the NBA.

00:12:23.900 Go ahead.

00:12:24.220 Get up one white guy.

00:12:25.360 Come on, guys.

00:12:26.000 Let's have a little respect.

00:12:26.580 All right.

00:12:27.000 So now you put Bill Russell.

00:12:28.360 Ten championships.

00:12:28.940 How many?

00:12:30.320 Give me a break.

00:12:30.800 Look at his stats.

00:12:31.820 15.1, 20, 20.5.

00:12:33.300 Now you put him here because he's going to have a championship.

00:12:34.640 22 rebounds, BBD.

00:12:35.760 I totally get it.

00:12:36.460 But then put Rodman in there with 17 rebounds.

00:12:38.200 Rodman didn't have 22 rebounds.

00:12:39.720 Keep going.

00:12:40.280 Keep going.

00:12:40.800 Chamberlain.

00:12:41.580 Wilt.

00:12:41.980 Five ahead of a.

00:12:42.900 That was 100 ladies that night. 1.00

00:12:45.020 He deserves to be in the top five.

00:12:46.420 I'm with that.

00:12:46.840 Keep going.

00:12:48.220 Magic Johnson, four.

00:12:49.240 You're going to have Kareem.

00:12:49.800 Dude, I interviewed Magic in front of a couple thousand people at Fort Worth Convention Center

00:12:55.380 and in front of everybody.

00:12:56.980 He says, let me make it very clear.

00:13:00.580 Kobe is the greatest Laker of all time.

00:13:03.640 They have him at fourth place and Kobe at 10th place.

00:13:07.160 Give it a break.

00:13:08.100 Keep going, Rob.

00:13:09.520 Keep going.

00:13:10.600 Kareem, three.

00:13:11.500 Okay, that's fine.

00:13:12.640 That argument can be made for sure.

00:13:14.380 Keep going.

00:13:14.860 Number two.

00:13:15.240 LeBron and then Michael.

00:13:17.160 And then Michael.

00:13:17.760 Stop it.

00:13:18.460 This is a terrible.

00:13:19.120 Matter of fact, Shane, this is terrible.

00:13:21.180 Let's just transition away from that.

00:13:22.400 And by the way, I just, I looked it up.

00:13:24.340 Oscar Robinson, Oscars center in 1971 was a very young Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. 0.90

00:13:31.440 Dumbest list FC. 0.89

00:13:32.460 Quick question, by the way. 0.92

00:13:33.360 In other words, Robertson doesn't get the championships without, with that one championship without Kareem. 0.59

00:13:38.920 Well, Kobe doesn't get championships without Shaq.

00:13:40.900 We won't go there, but stop.

00:13:42.500 Shaq won all the MVPs.

00:13:43.520 Is that, I have a very straightforward question for the boss.

00:13:48.180 Which was my point.

00:13:49.180 Okay.

00:13:49.760 So, LeBron is defending Bronny Jr., LeBron James Jr.

00:13:54.660 Hypothetically, you know, you've got kids.

00:13:57.680 You know, you have one kid that is very politically inclined.

00:14:00.900 Yeah.

00:14:01.200 His name is Patrick Bet-David Jr., Tico.

00:14:04.240 So, let's say there comes a day when Tico's starting to do content.

00:14:07.880 Maybe he's one of the co-hosts here.

00:14:09.260 And he has a slow start.

00:14:12.220 It's his rookie year.

00:14:13.560 And maybe there's a Stephen A. Smith out there that starts to talk trash or someone in the comments about your son.

00:14:22.140 Don't you think there's going to be a different...

00:14:24.600 The way Stephen A. did it?

00:14:25.740 The way that...

00:14:26.720 The way that...

00:14:27.920 Yeah, I guess there's two different people here.

00:14:29.420 No, the way Stephen A. did it was pure fair play.

00:14:32.400 Okay.

00:14:32.880 No.

00:14:33.240 So, if he's talking about Tico that way?

00:14:34.880 No, no problem.

00:14:35.720 Okay.

00:14:36.200 Walk me through this, please.

00:14:38.140 Because he didn't disrespect.

00:14:42.220 He just said he doesn't belong in the league.

00:14:45.020 If, let's just say, somebody gets on the podcast, they say, you don't belong in the league to do podcasts.

00:14:49.080 When we started doing podcasts, like, you're not a podcaster.

00:14:51.400 You're not a this.

00:14:51.980 You're not a that.

00:14:53.120 What are you thinking of creating content?

00:14:54.480 Yeah, you're supposed to say that.

00:14:55.600 And then you, I said that to a guy today, a guy I'm going to next to me today, says, let me tell you, I think I'm in the top 1% of podcasters in the world.

00:15:03.360 And he's got 4,000 subscribers.

00:15:05.300 And I'm trying to compliment him.

00:15:06.600 Then all of a sudden, he becomes so hype.

00:15:07.980 And I'm like, bro, forgive me for complimenting you.

00:15:10.880 I actually, let me take that back.

00:15:12.660 You're not in the top 1% of podcasters. 0.83

00:15:15.280 Now you sound arrogant.

00:15:16.580 Now you sound entitled.

00:15:17.640 Now you sound this.

00:15:18.400 And I don't even know if you're asking questions.

00:15:20.840 For the first seven years of us doing YouTube, every other month we would hire a consultant for YouTube to learn about what stats and datas and what mistakes we're making.

00:15:29.020 We didn't know if we were going to be in the space for this long to improve.

00:15:32.140 Till today, we're trying to find a way to improve.

00:15:34.420 Constantly, we're coming up with new strategies and things that we're doing.

00:15:37.300 No, I have no problem with that kind of feedback being given.

00:15:40.220 You disrespect, it's a different story.

00:15:42.420 And I don't think Stephen A crossed the line with disrespect.

00:15:46.400 No, but LeBron is a passive-aggressive guy.

00:15:48.240 And LeBron is a guy that thinks, there's never been a superstar in the history of the NBA that thinks as highly of himself as LeBron does.

00:15:55.720 Never.

00:15:56.240 There's never been one that thinks highly of himself as LeBron does.

00:15:59.840 That is such a drama.

00:16:03.360 Look, to me, it's mathematically impossible for LeBron to be, I have him as second, right?

00:16:09.560 But I can easily see somebody making an argument to show.

00:16:14.060 There's videos of LeBron.

00:16:15.560 He gets hit like this.

00:16:16.480 He touches his head and he starts scratching it like he got punched in the head.

00:16:19.600 How can a man take such abuse?

00:16:21.000 Yeah, how can, that's the videos, right?

00:16:22.420 So, no, I don't know.

00:16:23.480 I just don't see that.

00:16:25.160 Real quick, my, go ahead.

00:16:26.680 Go ahead.

00:16:27.200 Well, my justification for why he maybe feels entitled that way, we've never seen anybody go from literally 10th grade being the chosen one, King James.

00:16:37.260 And then literally delivering.

00:16:39.920 Because every other player who's in that conversation, especially in the social media age, MJ got cut from his high school team.

00:16:48.140 So there was always a chip on his shoulder.

00:16:50.680 Okay?

00:16:50.940 He wasn't the GOAT.

00:16:51.820 Kobe went high school.

00:16:52.560 Kobe, remember he had his kill list?

00:16:54.820 Kobe was like a top.

00:16:55.780 7.2 points a game his rookie season.

00:16:58.240 He averaged 15 points a second season.

00:17:00.000 Rob, can you go to his stats?

00:17:00.800 MJ wasn't the number one pick.

00:17:02.220 We saw Sam Bowie the other night.

00:17:03.740 Sam Bowie.

00:17:04.560 Sam Bowie fighting.

00:17:05.600 Portland.

00:17:06.340 We saw Sam Bowie was picked ahead of him.

00:17:08.080 He had a chip on his shoulder.

00:17:09.340 Kobe was drafted by Charlotte and then traded for, I think, Vlade Divac to the Lakers.

00:17:14.860 Chip on his shoulder.

00:17:16.960 Kobe didn't come out his rookie year ball out.

00:17:19.140 He was, he wasn't even an all-star, I don't think.

00:17:21.820 Is that your first year, Rob?

00:17:23.140 How many points per game is it?

00:17:24.540 7.6?

00:17:25.280 Is that minutes?

00:17:26.620 That's minutes.

00:17:27.160 The first one is minutes.

00:17:28.120 Second one is, yeah.

00:17:28.820 But LeBron.

00:17:29.560 Yeah, 7.2.

00:17:30.880 I said 7.2.

00:17:31.740 7.6.

00:17:33.140 Second year average, 15.

00:17:34.440 Then he went to 19.9.

00:17:35.660 Then 22.

00:17:36.560 And then, boom.

00:17:37.020 This is Kobe?

00:17:38.280 From 2001.

00:17:39.140 28 points again.

00:17:39.880 25.

00:17:40.480 LeBron is the-

00:17:40.840 And now we're in the championship lane there.

00:17:42.440 2000, 2001, 2001.

00:17:43.680 LeBron is the only person that we've seen literally say, high school to NBA, I'm going

00:17:50.540 to be the GOAT, turned out to be that dude, and delivered.

00:17:54.400 So I can understand why he has such an inflated ego.

00:17:57.500 Now that hasn't worked out well for the league, because their ratings have tanked.

00:18:02.360 He's not attractive.

00:18:02.740 I know that you've gone back and forth.

00:18:04.720 And you know why he's the most unattractive?

00:18:08.120 Well, besides, it's really funny if you guys look at it.

00:18:10.100 Bob, you don't have to look it up, but it's funny.

00:18:11.840 He tries to act like he's somebody that he's not.

00:18:13.600 The fact that every time he has a book in his hand, like he's reading it, it's always

00:18:17.320 on the first page.

00:18:18.900 The guy is not-

00:18:19.820 And I'm not-

00:18:20.760 It is what it is.

00:18:21.520 I mean, he left high school and went there.

00:18:22.740 I don't know how freaking-

00:18:23.700 He's not articulate, like you said, Adam. 0.88

00:18:26.160 His vernacular isn't so freaking great.

00:18:28.520 But you know what?

00:18:28.960 Let's just-

00:18:29.640 Look at how unattractive-

00:18:30.860 Page four, man.

00:18:31.980 It might be page four with a towel.

00:18:33.220 He's reading the towel.

00:18:34.980 But anyway, and it comes to unattractiveness.

00:18:39.260 He lost it, and it all started shifting.

00:18:41.720 And then the league suffered for it, because think about it.

00:18:44.640 Remember when he slammed that cop and tweeted, you're next, for Officer Nicholas Reardon

00:18:50.420 after he shot Makai Bryant?

00:18:54.160 Stopping her from stabbing another girl, he was like, you're next to the cop, okay?

00:18:59.280 He mocked Kyle Rittenhouse for crying on the stand.

00:19:02.080 He stayed silent on China, the human rights thing, when he attacked Daryl Morey.

00:19:06.120 Remember that?

00:19:06.540 For supporting Hong Kong.

00:19:08.060 All this to protect his Nike and his NBA money. 0.93

00:19:12.240 And he talks about being oppressed, but he lives like a freaking king, literally. 0.75

00:19:16.620 And he backs all the woke policies against conservative values. 0.96

00:19:20.420 That's why he's an unattractive guy, unattractive player, not a-

00:19:25.080 In my point of view, not a good dude.

00:19:27.380 And then, yeah, when Stephen A is just speaking facts, and you let it hurt your feelings, and

00:19:31.580 then you try to embarrass him in front of everybody, knowing that's my problem, you know you're

00:19:36.620 not going to do anything to him, you know you weren't going to hit him, and you know

00:19:39.720 he wasn't going to hit you.

00:19:40.860 That's the problem.

00:19:41.680 You were just trying to embarrass him and look tough.

00:19:44.100 You ain't going to do nothing, bro.

00:19:45.140 Even on the show, you're going to fight him in the street?

00:19:47.140 Give me a break, bro.

00:19:47.820 If you were really about that life, you would have walked right up to him and punched 0.99

00:19:50.560 him in the face right there. 0.99

00:19:51.500 No, that's not professional.

00:19:52.960 He's a professional.

00:19:53.720 No, Adam.

00:19:54.060 He's a professional.

00:19:54.580 That's not professional.

00:19:55.680 Going up to Stephen A, and then going like, oh, Stephen A, hold on, and then saying Stephen

00:20:00.460 A was happy, he's going to go celebrate that I'm talking about him.

00:20:03.240 No, you're the cause for it.

00:20:05.200 You're sensitive, and you're talking to another level, and Stephen A matched you at it.

00:20:10.140 Who's winning in this whole thing?

00:20:12.040 I actually give him respect for going up and talking to the source.

00:20:14.840 If he would have tweeted it, like most people would do these days, all the tough guys with

00:20:18.540 the Twitter fingers, he went up and said, listen, I have a problem with what you

00:20:22.060 did.

00:20:22.740 Here's the deal. 0.90

00:20:23.420 I'm not going to punch you in the face.

00:20:24.920 I have a game to play, but I have an issue with it.

00:20:27.340 That's what a man does.

00:20:28.260 On the third quarter of a game in the middle of everything?

00:20:30.880 It's called the third quarter, it's because it's halftime.

00:20:33.700 The third quarter's about to start.

00:20:34.980 Well, you know what you do?

00:20:36.100 You're in the show business.

00:20:37.420 He could have got his phone number and said, yo, dog, as a man, you don't go and do that 1.00

00:20:41.160 in public, because you ain't going to do shit. 0.99

00:20:42.720 There's nothing to do. 0.99

00:20:43.620 He's talking to him like a man.

00:20:45.060 Adam, I'm about that life, bro.

00:20:46.500 Adam, if I have a real problem with you about my son, and I'm mad, I'm not going to go up

00:20:50.960 to him like, me, me, me, me, me, and walk away.

00:20:53.000 Wait, what are you going to do?

00:20:53.760 Text him, no.

00:20:54.400 You don't think he gets his number?

00:20:56.340 You're a tough texter, Vinny.

00:20:57.420 No, what I'm saying is, if you're going to go up to somebody like that, Adam, what do

00:21:01.420 you want to do?

00:21:02.320 What do you want to do?

00:21:02.980 That's where I'm from.

00:21:03.600 I'm going to text you right now, Vinny.

00:21:04.200 Sorry, bro.

00:21:05.000 Sorry.

00:21:05.420 I'm going to text you right now, Vinny.

00:21:06.720 Tom, are you about that life?

00:21:07.820 Tom, I want to ask you one question on Happy Pat brought up.

00:21:10.980 Tom, are you, not about, are you about that life?

00:21:16.220 I don't know, but when me and my homies were talking about the situation.

00:21:19.660 He's talking about his homies. 0.93

00:21:20.920 Hold on.

00:21:21.180 Me and my homies were talking about this situation, and we weren't down with the flop

00:21:26.000 at all.

00:21:27.080 Yeah.

00:21:27.440 No, I got two things to say, and the first thing I'm going to say, one man was doing his

00:21:31.960 job.

00:21:32.460 7,000 people voted, Rob.

00:21:34.560 Yeah.

00:21:34.920 Our audience just voted.

00:21:36.340 7,000 people voted on who's the greatest NBA player of all time.

00:21:40.240 Jordan, LeBron, Kobe.

00:21:42.260 Jordan got 80 votes.

00:21:43.960 Kobe got 10.

00:21:44.860 LeBron got 5%.

00:21:45.960 80%.

00:21:46.520 I don't care if you guys ever get anything wrong on politics or anything else.

00:21:52.700 We can fight.

00:21:53.500 You can manek me. 1.00

00:21:54.240 You can talk shit. 1.00

00:21:54.960 You can say whatever you want with Trump and all this other stuff. 1.00

00:21:58.020 I love you guys.

00:21:58.800 Yes.

00:21:59.340 To everybody that voted here, you're my type of people.

00:22:03.520 Come to the Cigar Lounge.

00:22:04.420 We're going to be a member so we can have these types of talks.

00:22:06.600 Vinny, I just tough text you right now.

00:22:08.200 Guys, hang on.

00:22:08.960 Go ahead.

00:22:09.580 I challenge you, bro.

00:22:10.780 I was quite for a second.

00:22:11.680 No, no, no.

00:22:12.300 Adam got to text me, and he said, I want to kiss you.

00:22:14.140 Vinny, Vinny, Vinny.

00:22:14.620 You're going to not be on his own list.

00:22:16.020 He's about that life.

00:22:16.880 Go ahead.

00:22:17.120 We're going to go to another story.

00:22:17.960 Go ahead, homie. 1.00

00:22:19.000 There's two things in my mind that are very, very clear.

00:22:21.060 One is, I thought Stephen A. Smith was doing his job and doing it very professionally,

00:22:25.360 and the reaction he had, I do not think, was acting.

00:22:28.420 I happen to believe, my opinion, that what I saw there, LeBron knew the cameras were rolling.

00:22:34.280 That's what I'm saying.

00:22:34.780 LeBron knew it was going on.

00:22:36.120 I think he took it personal.

00:22:38.440 It wasn't about defending his son.

00:22:39.900 I think he took it personal.

00:22:41.840 He was upset, and I think he walked in front of Stephen A. there on the court to do the equivalent of take a flop for the cameras.

00:22:50.160 That's what I think.

00:22:51.820 And I think Stephen A. was just doing his job, and I think he was very articulate.

00:22:56.920 And I applaud Stephen A. for stepping up and saying, listen, I don't think it's about your home.

00:23:03.640 I think it's about what we're doing here at Crypto.com Arena.

00:23:07.220 That's what I was speaking about.

00:23:09.100 We're not speaking about this.

00:23:10.320 Don't try to make it what it's not.

00:23:11.580 Tom, all you had to do was say, I'm about that life.

00:23:13.980 Tom, Tom, you're almost making Rob cry.

00:23:17.120 Tom, I know.

00:23:17.660 7,100 people voted.

00:23:19.500 Michael, 80%.

00:23:21.260 Wow.

00:23:22.060 Michael Jordan.

00:23:23.080 Kobe, 10.

00:23:23.500 LeBron, 5.

00:23:24.780 Tom, you know what?

00:23:25.920 Greatest flapper of all time.

00:23:27.160 I think that issue, when he said I wear 23, I wear it to honor Jordan, I think he thinks he's the one, and it bothers him.

00:23:36.780 Nothing excites me more than when I'm out there and I watch people wearing future looks bright gear.

00:23:42.340 It's getting bigger, and it's getting now to a lot of different places, which is fantastic.

00:23:46.420 And ladies, you've been asking for it. 1.00

00:23:48.940 You've been talking to VT Merch, and the team's been listening to you.

00:23:51.640 The spring collection is here.

00:23:52.880 Now we have some of this active wear hats for those of you that work out, that you want something lighter, your runners, but you still want to represent the vitamin gear.

00:24:01.420 We have it in many different colors.

00:24:03.240 You know, yellow.

00:24:04.340 You got them in pink.

00:24:05.560 You got them in baby blue.

00:24:06.860 You got them in the Tiffany blue color.

00:24:08.960 You got them on all these other things that are here.

00:24:10.520 And for some of you, what did you call this, Rob?

00:24:13.500 There was a name for this?

00:24:15.440 Tom, what do you know?

00:24:16.280 Active wear.

00:24:17.000 Active wear.

00:24:17.600 But this hat here, for some that like this style, this is out as well.

00:24:22.000 Some of you guys asked for it.

00:24:23.360 And then the shirts.

00:24:24.320 I'm telling you, the material of these shirts, when you put them on, is unreal.

00:24:29.660 Unreal, the material, when you feel it and you put it on.

00:24:32.440 This is a new one that came in future looks bright with the logo on the front.

00:24:35.820 We got the sweater that's here as well.

00:24:38.660 Navy blue.

00:24:40.080 Future looks bright. 0.88

00:24:42.020 The material is ridiculous.

00:24:43.960 Honestly, the material to me is unbelievable. 0.96

00:24:45.040 Look at that.

00:24:45.860 Did you see these?

00:24:46.360 Oh, my God.

00:24:47.380 I tried to get one of these, but he said they don't have my size yet.

00:24:50.080 Oh, my God.

00:24:50.560 You'll get us medium one of these days.

00:24:51.700 No, I get large, homie.

00:24:52.560 I get large, homie.

00:24:53.320 You're not large.

00:24:53.940 Rob, is this on the web?

00:24:54.800 Can you see if this is on the website?

00:24:56.200 It is.

00:24:56.400 The gold?

00:24:57.120 Can you go to the gold one?

00:24:58.120 Right there.

00:24:58.600 Oh, my goodness.

00:24:59.460 Looking sick.

00:25:00.000 And it's not just screen printed.

00:25:01.140 Those are like thick letters.

00:25:02.580 Yeah, it pops off the shirt.

00:25:03.980 Yeah, it's great.

00:25:05.680 And then on the back, you've got the vitamin gear.

00:25:08.500 Go to vtmurch.com.

00:25:09.920 Place your order.

00:25:10.640 We want a million of us wearing this everywhere we go.

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＂LeBron's Ass LIES A Lot!＂ – Stephen A. Smith SNAPS After LeBron James Public Confrontation

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