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Stephen A. discusses J.J. Redick’s hiring as the Lakers’ new Head Coach, Paul George on Stephen A.’s issues with Kawhi Leonard, and the upcoming WNBA rematch between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese. He also responds to radio host Doug Gottlieb’s race-baiter comments about him.
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I'm chilling. The NBA season is over, okay, I'm in a very good move. I'm looking forward to the summer. And then somebody got to open their mouth and talk shit about me. I'm just wondering one of people can't learn, one of they gonna learn. You reach, I'll teach Steven A Smith Show in the house. Let's row. What's up? Everybody? Welcome to the Ladies' edition of The Steven Axsmith Show, coming at you as I love to do it the very least three days a week over the digital airways of YouTube, and of course iHeart radio. I see those numbers climbing an iHeart radio. By the way, so y'all like listening to me too, not just watching me? Okay, I love that. I love that. I appreciate the love, make no mistake about it. And by the way, let me not refrain from thanking y'all for continuing to support the show. The subscribers have now climb to above seven hundred and seven thousand. I appreciate the love so much. Thank you keeping coming, and I'm gonna keep on coming. Want to continue to like and follow the show, just click the bell right there and you'll be the latest member of the Stephen A. Smith Show Family. Courtesy of YouTube and of course again our Heart Radio. I got a bunch of things to get into, and uh, you know, a contemporary in the business talked some shit about me, misrepresented me. No surprise there, it happens all the time. I was surprised that I was. I was called the race bader by him. But it's okay. I mean, I'm in a goot. You know, you wanna start something plain in the right place, I'm good with it. I'm good with it. I'll get into that trifling ass in a second, but not before I get to the first topic of discussion for this particular show, and that would involve the Los Angeles Lakies having agreed to a four year contract with the one and only JJ Reddick to make him the franchise as the next coach. So it's just told ESPN. On Thursday, Reddick, an ESPN NBA analyst who played fifteen years in the league, met with Laker's vice president and general manager Rob Olinka and owner Genie Buss over the weekend, and conversations on the vacancy continued throughout the week. According to sources, Palinka offered Redditt the job Thursday morning. According to sources, Reddick moved into the forefront of the search a week ago after Connecticut coach Dan Hurley turned down a six year, seventy million dollar contract. Again, all of that is sourced material now happen to work with Adrian woljer Darowski. He was a guest on this show last week. I can tell you right now he's been on top of the top of this story from day one. He was the one that broke the story about Dan Hurley being a prime candidate. He was gonna be offered this job. He ultimately did get off of a six year, seventy million dollar deal. One could make the argument that the Los Angeles Lakers, how bad did you really want Danny Hurley if you're only gonna offer him to be the sixth highest paid coach? I mean, eleven million is eleven million? JJ Reddi is getting about eight million a year. But the bottom line is this when you consider the fact that Monty Williams got thirteen million a year from Detroit a year ago before he was let go just a few days ago, much to his blessings. By the way, talk about get relieved the purgatory he should be very, very happy. It's one of those situations where I certainly can't knock him. The point is is that one could easily argue, how bad did you really want Danny Hurley if that was the offer that you made him. In fact, you know this is what you wanted all along. I don't know whether that's true or not. Here's what I do know. I'm very happy for JJ Reddick. JJ Reddick and I are cool. There's no animosity between us whatsoever. I can tell you that working on first take, he did a fabulous job covering the NBA for us. He did a fabulous job being a member of the A team with Doris Burke and Mike Breen. He did a fabulous job. And listen, he is no joke. Now. I know. People took exception with me saying he's an acquiet taste. JJ Reddick would laugh at that. He would laugh at that because he knows it's true. Why do I say that? Because JJ Reddick is a brilliant brother. He's smart as hell, and he does not tolerate fools, and he doesn't tolerate too much small talk. He ain't got time for all of that. That's not who he is. So when I talk about not you know, he's an acquiet taste. He's not somebody that's gonna, you know, be that personable fragnizing with folks for no reason. There's a method to his madness and a purpose to every step he takes. That is a compliment, it is not an insult. He does not play. He is a serious, serious brother. That's who he is. That's who he has always been, and he ain't gonna change for anybody. He's a real one. I got a lot of respect for JJ Reddick, and I'm thankful and grateful for the job that he did, particularly on a first take. But overall, ESPN and most of not all of us wish him nothing but the best. However, there are people who are misconstruing some things when it comes to JJ Reddick and his podcast Mind the Game with Lebron James. So let me make it simple for folks. I'm happy for JJ Reddick. I'm wishing him nothing but the best. Not that he ever would need to, but if he did, he knows he could pick up the phone and call me, and I'll do whatever I can to be of help to him, because we have that kind of relationship. We cool with one another, We get along. I've never had a problem with his podcast. Had a problem with Lebron James agreeing to do the podcast. Not initially. Initially we all celebrated it because we thought it was just gonna be some podcasts. But when they talked about getting in to the intricacies of discussing the game of basketball, and then we started hearing noise about Darvin Ham, the former Lakers head coach fired after their first round series lost to the Denver Nuggets. By the way, you're saying yourself, Dawn, why is it that you would choose to do the podcast at that particular time, as opposed to after Darvin Ham lost the job, as opposed to once the playoffs began, or once the playoffs for the Los Angeles Lakers was over, or this summer. Why do it? Then we're talking to Lebron James, not JJ Reddick. JJ Reddick was in the media. It was no guarantee he was going to be the next head coach of the Lakers, and if him, as an aspiring coach used the broadcast industry to position himself for recognition purposes to get a job like the Lakers job, more power to him. Doc Rivers did it, Mark Jackson did it. There's plenty of people that have been in the broadcasting booth that ultimately found themselves in a situation facilitated by that level of exposure. JJ Reddick did nothing wrong, And initially the thought process was Lebron wasn't doing anything wrong until you saw doarviin Ham on a hot seat, and when you saw dolving Ham on a hot seat, and then you saw the lingo in the verbiage and the language us in terms of them dissecting what was transpiring on a basketball court for NBA games and beyond with their mind the game podcast. And then ultimately Darbingham loses the job and JJ Reddick emerges as a top candidate for the job. I mean, what's wrong with saying one plus one equals two. It's not a crime to point that out. It's not a crime. But uh, some dude by the name of mister Doug Gottlie. Most of y'all might not know him. I mean those of us in the business so on, because we respect our colleagues, but the public in terms of your support form ratings and things of that nature, you might not know him. Probably why he brought up my name in the fashion that he did. I hope he gets them the clicks and the recognition and the numbers that he's looking for, because he damn sure hasn't been showing he's getting them any other way. But I digress. This dude, Doug Gottlie for Fox Sports Radio. And by the way, before I even go any further, let me get this out of the way. I used to work at Fox. My relationship with Jim Rome goes back to my days of work working at Fox. My relationship with Skip Bayless goes back to us working at Fox, contributing to shows like Jim Rose The Last Word in other shows. Rob Parker, one of my best friends on the planet, works on Fox Sports Radio. Christopher Brussard, one of my best friends works on Fox Sports Radio. Colin Cowherd, who is an elite talent in this business, somebody I have profound respect for and wish was still at ESPN. If I'm being totally honest with you, that man works at Fox Sports Radio. So I've got history with folks at Fox Radio and nothing but glowing things to say. I just saw a former executive. There's Steve Tello, mister George Greenberg, mission buddy, I hope you will, David Lee. The list goes on and on. Don't get me started with Howie Long, Terry Bradshaw, you understand, and the rest of the crew. I know them all. I got a lot of friends over at Fox Sports Radio, make no mistake about it. So this ain't about Fox Sports Radio or throwing any shade on them. I'm talking specifically about mister Gottlieb, whose name I never mentioned never. I don't dislike him. I don't like him. I don't really know him. I don't have much use for him, just like he apparently has no use for me. But I never discussed him. He has said some bs over the years. He says some dumb shit over the years. I've never brought it up.
I don't bother him.
But this guy goes on his show on Thursday accusing me of being a race bater for reporting that black NBA coaches condemned JJ Reddick's podcast with Lebron James. But before I go any further, let me quote what Doug Gottlieb said. Quote Stephen A. Smith. Remember this is him bringing up my name, y'all. He started this Stephen A. Smith is a race bader. He is disgraceful saying that on national television. Disgraceful. JJ Redick and Lebron James are clearly friends, They have a relationship, They have mutual respect for one another. The only one who's making it out to be a racial thing is Stephen A. Smith. He is creating this. This is honestly pure evil. That's what bad people do. So I'm a bad person. Now, this is what bad people do. Oh, he doesn't stop there, ladies and gentlemen. This is just as bad as the perception that President Trump stokes the white nationalist flame. Same thing. There's no difference, no difference none. So me, I want y'all to understand the magnitude of what Doug Godly just said. Doug Gottlieb just compared my singing that black coaches who have called me had a problem with the podcast. And I'll get into that in a second, But Doug Gottlieb is comparing that and equating that to Donald Trump and white nationalists. So when the mayhem took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, and a young lady was killed, and we had folks out there marching and white supremacists making themselves conspicuous, and Donald Trump goes over the airwaves and say there were good and bad people on both sides. That's the equivalent of this. When there was riots in the streets during the whole social justice movement and Donald Trump was surrounded by men in the military walking over to do a prop I believe it was a bible in his hand. That equates to me talking about Lebron James Dare I say, only somebody who thinks about white nationalists would say something like that, like what Doug gottlie said. But I won't go there because I don't know Doug gottlieb like that, and quite frankly, I don't want to know him. So I'm not gonna accuse him of being anything. I'm gonna stick to what exactly he said. First things first, Doug Gottley was a hell of a basketball player, which I was not. Doug Gottley was a guy, if I remember correctly led the nation and assists brother had game. He's now the coach, that head basketball coach at Wisconsin Green Bay. Wish him nothing but the best, not rooining against him. We're gonna stick to his commentary, his comments right now, black coaches who called me all of them didn't called me about five or six of them call their whole attitude. Nobody had a single problem against JJ Reddick. Nobody questioned Lebron James and JJ Redick's friendship. What they had a problem with is that the timing of the podcast undermined Darvin Ham who was on the hot seat, and they were asking, why would Lebron James do that? What does that have to do with you and your white ass the Gottlieb. Black coaches called the black commentator about the black athlete that they had a problem with because they felt he was undermining the black coach. Nobody said anything about JJ Reddick. What does it have to do with you? Now? This is the same Doug Gottlieb who two years ago went after my other good friend.
Nick Wright for Fox Sports, his colleague there two years ago because Nick was in favor of Nil and the change it was facilitating.
Because the relatively white institutional establishments in college sports were taking advantage of black athletes, primarily in the sport of basketball and football. Doug Gottlieb took exception of that and accused Nick Wright of engaging in fake racism. So you the expert on racism. Now that's who.
Doug Gottlieb is really you?
You really? I mean, you gotta be kidding me. So he misquoted me, he misrepresented and lacked context, provide context. So what I was saying, once again, no issue with JJ Reddick, no issue with the podcast. No issue really with Lebron James doing the podcast with JJ Reddick if it were not at a time when Darvin hand was on the hot seat, that's all. But Doug Gottie, by the way, a highly intelligent dude from what I can tell, refused to mention that that had to be on purpose. He's not stupid. It had to be on purpose. Sometimes people let stuff out because they really want to get it out of this system, because they really want to bitch and moan about stuff. They ain't got the hoot spot to really really address it head on and be a provocateur of content. Instead, what they want to do is they want to find a little nugget that piggyback off of to justify their vitriol. You calling me a raise bator, You're not the first white person to do that. You won't be the last. I got news for you. Some black folks called me a sellout? Which one is it? Could it be that I'm a guy that marches right down the middle and then I prioritize being fair. That's what I think it would mean. Were you fear to me, Doug Godly, you weren't. You were inaccurate. You quoted me out of context, you quote you know what you said that what you attributed to me was totally false. Just go and watch the episode of First Take. You don't know what the hell you're talking about, or you're dead and you're acting like you don't know on purpose to facilitate a discussion. What's the matter, bro? You ain't getting enough viewers, listeners? What's up? Is that what this is about? You keep this up. You'd be lucky to have a black player at Green Bay, Wisconsin or Wisconsin green Bay. That's not what I said. Don't misrepresent me, don't come at me like that. And as far as here's another thing that Doug Gottlieb mentioned that I think it's important to bring up. He said quote that he was a candidate in twenty and sixteen and he came down to him and Max Kellerman. That's a damn lie. This is what he talked about when Skip Bayles's departed and it was between Max Kellerman. He was saying, it was between him and Max Kellerman to get the First Take job. Ladies and gentlemen, I am the executive producer First Tape. I have been on the show since twenty twelve, and from the moment Skip Bayles's departed, I have been the face of First Take, and I am telling you Doug Gottley was never a candidate for the job. That is a damn lie. He's lying through his teeth. That is not true, unless, unbeknownst to me, somebody called him and made him think he was a candidate, because he certainly wasn't one. In my eyes, it was never gonna happen. There was not a number two candidate named Doug Gottley. That is false. Do you know that to day marks eight years to the day that Skipped Bayless departed from First Take on the ESPN to ultimately join Fox Sports Radio three months later in September. That's eight years ago. I remember it like it was yesterday. I can assure you Doug Gottlie was never a candidate for the First Take job. Now, I can't speak to who spoke to him. I sincerely doubt anybody did, because I can assure you it wasn't going down like that because it had to go through me, and he was never a consideration, because he wasn't a draw period, just giving you facts. So it is what it is. I'm not gonna disrespect to him. I'm not gonna do all of this stuff, but a race beata. I'm the equivalent of Donald Trump with white nationalists. Really, I mean, it's sad, you know. One of the things that really really annoys me. Ladies, gentlemen. There's a few people in this business I don't particularly like. I don't mess with him. One I despise. Everybody knows who that is. I've already spoken on that. He's on another level. But most others I just don't mess with him, sound like him, you know. And then there are those that I'm just indifferent about. That's the category that God Leave would fall under. Total indifference. Don't think about them, don't talk about them, don't talk to them, don't really know him, don't care to know him. But all I'm saying is that no matter what I think or how I feel about you, fair is fair, if you are successful, if you're getting numbers, if you're accurate, or whatever the case may be. Ladies, a gentleman, I'm gonna acknowledge it. I'm gonna acknowledge it. What I'm not gonna do is purposefully go about the business of misrepresenting what somebody said for whatever objective or agenda I may have. I'm fair. I'm fair. So in a case of Doug Gottlie Race Baiting, fine, you want to call me that, Okay, you might feel that way. I don't care what you think. I'm just acknowledging it because the percolating story is the Los Angeles Lakers JJ Reddick. That has on to do with Lebron James. And then you came out your ass and said what you said. But I won't be speaking much about you because I don't want to be irrelevant and talking about you would make.
Me so so I'm not gonna do that. But I will say, damn, it's just amazing to me. You know, when George Floyd was murdered, don't y'all remember how white America stood up and we're listening.
We want to hear, we want to hear, we find we finally want to listen, we want to hear you. This kind of stuff shows you don't because what did I say? Black coaches called having a problem with Lebron James because they felt he was undermining Darvin Ham strictly because of the timing of the podcast he was doing with JJ Reddick. They felt it could have waited until Darvin Ham got fired. They thought he could have waited until the postseason. They thought he could have waited until the summer. There's nothing about that statement, nothing about those calls that involves white people. Why is Doug Gottlieve comment on it?
For what?
Well? I just gave you one of the reasons I brought your name up. That's probably the first time anybody's done it this week because in this industry, we don't really think about you much. It's just the truth. I'll leave it at that. Don't have to say more, don't want to say more. Not gonna give you my time. I wish you nothing but the best. Sure you have a wonderful family and stuff like that. They could be watching something like this. I don't want to do that to you. I'm not gonna go there. But you certainly didn't think about people who care about me when you said what you said, I'll let you live with that. Coming up, we've got a star stud the WNBA show Down on Sunday that could smash some previous viewership records. Plus, I've been called out by the one and only Paul George for my commentary on his teammate, his boy, his brother, and his partner in crime order only Kawhi. Let it. You know I've got more to say on that, don't you. But first, one of the top fighters on the planet Earth. He's trained by somebody you know. The brother's name is Calvin Ford. I just had to talk to him about Davonte Davis. I needed to hear from him what the hell I saw Saturday night against Frank Martin. He's coming up next. Stick around. You're listening and watching stephen A. Smith show right here over our heart radio and ad digital airwaves of YouTube. Don't touch that. That's what morning in all right? Everybody? You know what Tom it is. It's Tomas stephen A's weekly picks. Everybody knows that I live and breathe sports and that I need to be right there in the middle of all the action. So how do I do that? Exactly? There's only one way I use Prize Picks. That's how you see. Prize Picks is the largest fantasy sports platform in all the land, with more than three million members. Not only that, it's incredibly easy to play. I'm telling you what I know. 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Welcome back to Steven a special right here over the digital airways of YouTube and of course our heart radio, the one and only Calvin for a trainer for a guy that I believe to be the biggest box office attraction in the sport of boxing right now, the one and only Javonte Davis. Calvin Ford, his trainer, is on a line with me right now. What's going on big time? Howard? You man, how does it feel? And you know, to be the guy in the corner for Javonte Davis these days.
It's just another regular day at work, man, you know that's all he treated as is work, going to take care of business. When the contract rolls past our deaths, it's a hit.
You know. I'm looking at Javonte Davis and I gotta confess to you, Calvin. I mean, listen, I've always liked them. I always listen. They called it, you know, they called it a mini mic As, a mini mic Tyson for a reason. We know that his lights out with him. He's gonna put you to sleep, no doubt about it. But I'm gonna confess to you when I really really saw what I'm seeing now. I always thought of him as a puncher. But when he fought Isaac Cruz, he was twenty five and zero and he fought that little dude came, that little pit bull coming at him all the time. And I mean the movement, the boxing skills. That to me was the moment that Javonte Davis hit the scene and I said, Yo, this is one of the best fighters in the world. When did you know he was one of the best fighters in the world when.
He told me to believe in him? And that's still headed in my head today, not as Javonte Davis as a grown man, as a kid. You know, we was going through our trials and trivi relations and whatnot. He understand what I was going to get them where he's trying to go at where.
He's at today.
He's just say believe. And one of the main things that Mayor o'miley put up throughout the Baltimore city was it was black. He had a black background and the word was written believe in white. And when he said that to me, man, it's just believe in him. And ever since, I've just been believing. And now we had this Pitt call. Our life is. We're in his car now. You know he's doing the driving now, So I'm just waiting to look at the sights.
You know, when you look at him right now, what is it about him that makes him so special at this moment in time when we see some of the great fighters out there. We were talking about Terrence Crawford. We've been talking about Canelo Alvarez. We've been talking a lot about David Benavitez, who was in the undercard leading into the main event this past Saturday night when Javonte Davis fought and ultimately knocked out Frank Martin. We've seen some of the great fighters. What is it about Javonte Davis that makes him him special in your eyes compared to any other fighter out there in terms of what he's bringing to the table. He's special.
He's special at that weight, that size, and he have a real calling. It's for the youth of the USA to let him know what do. Whatever you go through in life, you're going to go through, it's just how you finish it up. And that was one of the things that I instilled let him miss you know, everybody gonna have Rocky rolls starting off, it's how you finish, and.
He take that to heart.
It's how he put on the performance and how he's going to finish.
I watched him and one of the things that impressed me, and I remember the press conference promoting the fight, because you had spoken to the same press conference as well, and it's little stuff. You know, doing what I do for a living, you pick up on little nuggets and stuff. You know what I'm saying. When I covered basketball, I used to have to sit courtside, so cats used to walk right by me entering a gag because I was at the scorer's table so I could see him. I can look in their eyes. I can see it, you know. And then I'm looking at boxing and I'm looking at a guy like Davis, and I said, wait a minute, y'all. He looked at Frank Martin during the press conference and he.
Said, you really really should have waited. You really really should have waited. He said, You're not ready, and you're good, but you're not ready yet. And I said, you hear a lot of fighting, sorg and I'm gonna kick your ass.
I'm gonna knock you out. You know. Sure Javonte gonna say that too. But he was saying to the kid, you a kid compared to me, You're not ready. What was it? I mean, is that him with every fight or does he or did he see something different from Frank Martin going.
Into light You understand, he's coming into his awakeness of becoming who he's proposed to become, you know, Canelo, Floyd Tyson all the great ones speaks about him. You know, we wouldn't to be here if not the work that he was saying. And Martin he squeezed into the Big four. It's like Pitt Bull.
He was.
How would you say? A guy was a filling and he went the distance with tanks and whatnot. And that's how tick Bull came famous. You know, Rody kept running his mouth. So now you're getting this this narrator that everybody said, Well, I'm gonna talk about I beat him up and spawn. Get what I'm saying. So that's the new thing. They talk about spawn, spawning and spawn. But when you get under them lights and get you get on them lights, it's a different beast.
I said, Frank Man, I don't give a damn what you did. A sparn I mean, who cares?
You know?
Sparn is when you try and stuff out. Correct me if I roll you the trader, not me, cal I mean that you're supposed to try stuff, you experiment in this sparn. But but you can you I saw Javonte, and Javonte was like, you lying? What do you mean? You buckled my knees? You mean you lying? And then I'm telling folks he walked out and open and round, walked right to him and was like, stagger me, now, buckle my knees. Now am I lying? Am I line?
When I say that you ain't lying, you ain't lying. I sit there and say this. I used to get on Tank a lot when he was little. When he was little, his friends used to call him when they got into some trouble and whatnot, and steady they fighting the battles. Tank used to do it, and he used to walk up on jokers and hit him right in their mouth. He don't see no little kid doing that. Oh so when I see Tank getting up, he'll get up in the middle of in the morning, he said, Yo, let's go spawn. I ain't nowhere around. He'll just go with his day and the day in guys and go spawn. No nothing go right in. Somebody Jym say, y'all want to work. Get what I'm saying. So when that happens, I know what they're doing.
You know what I'm saying.
That's his peace movement.
You know.
He wanted to get in that ring and just be at peace and get stuff off his shoulder. So when guys be homing, oh yeah, I spawn. The first thing I asked, was I there? You know they see now, Coach Calvin, he was, because when I'm there, When I'm there, the same results happen. That's like when he spared and Devin, I mean, and Floyd's gym just getting off the plane, not in shape, and what's getting in that work, you know. So when I sit down and say that, it's a difference. When he stepped in that ring for a real fight, we see what's happening. Only two guys, Only two guys. One guy that tank didn't eat the right food like I told him, and he was the first guy that missed it. But the rest of him, he's been laying them out. And I'm training for knockouts. I do not like knockofs because the first thing they said it was an easy shot. Uh, it was a lucky shot. I like punishing it. And when he punishing the joker, I'm happy, you know what I'm saying. And I don't like for him to get hit, you know. But it's something about at that fight. Man, I'm gonna take you if you go back and really watch that fight. Martin hit him dead.
You talk about Frank Martin, talk about Frank.
Yeah, Frank Martin listen to the saying I looked that Tank. I looked that Tank in his face, and you know how you can see the words somebody typing the words out of his mouth. And Tank looked at him at the moment I called him, I called him as a point in the fight where you have dead spots. And he looked at him, looked the bright in his face and say, yo, hit me in my face. And Martin through that left hand hit him right in his eye.
Bamn.
He didn't even buckle, and he it seemed like I've seen the words coming from his from his from his head saying that's all you got. And man, he started opening up on him, and Martin pushed that button, and that was the button. So you know, for would I see anybody that pushed that button now I feel sorry for because they don't know what they're gonna get.
Well, I think you're absolutely right at the lightweight division, because at one thirty five, Tank just seems powerful. He just seems he just too gifted, too strong, too powerful, and almost you're almost asking him to move up and wait just to spare people for crying out loud. But I know she Court Stevenson is asking for some of it. I know that, and people talking about lowman Chenko or whatever. To me personally, I want to see him fight or Garcia again. I want to see him fight a to a Femo Lopez, somebody like that that's got some power, somebody that has the potential to inflict some pain upon him, because I don't know if anybody can do it. And I've totally lost it with David Hady after what I saw Ryan Garcia do to him. Even though Ryan Gocie it was a bit bulked up. The bottom line is Devin Hadey took a beating and imagine what Tank would do.
Well, all of them already know to tell you, the chiefs, they just want to get the paycheck.
You know.
I'm like this, if the contract come past your death, your deaths, don't worry about the money. If you say you can beat him, just take tick whatever. And I say that because I remember when Paul Wills bought Margaret Eda and Paul was training that much Jim, he's his coach, bought and passed there to get some work. And I said, Paul, if you really want that fight.
You really know you can beat him.
Ask now, I only want a little bit of money. Just give it a fight.
Man, Who do you want to see you as a guy that's in his trainer, that's like a father figure than him. You're training him all the time. You know him both, y'all from the streets of Baltimore, the whole bent. Who do you want to see Tank fight?
Now? I want him to get all of them that ran themn mouth.
Give you the name. I need names.
Calvin already we went down and we're working on the Big four. It was God said, that's the first one. Roma. I hope we get him soon. Chicourt. He's gonna get it. He know he's gonna get it. It's just Bob is in charge of that. You know what I'm saying. Bob know what he doing over there. You can't tell Bob how to run his game because he's like a vet at this. He's been doing this for so many years. That's gonna happen. All the fights that we are that we'll want, they have no choice. They're gonna take the fight when it's time to take the fight. It's just right now, who's gonna take the fight. That's the question.
When you see Javonte Davis, he's fighting in the one thirties thirty five. Obviously lightweight go up to one forty Any possibility he's gonna go up to a one forty seven someday in the near future, anything like that, is that possible?
Time would tell. I'm looking at how we weigh, how he's weighing in there. I get what I'm saying, and I'm taking the page out of Marvel Hagler. He ruled his weight class for so many years, you know what I'm saying. So if I fill this dog right and if we feel this dough, we don't have to go up there. What's the point they come to us? They know what time it is. You want them big dollars, you gotta come see Tank.
I agree with you. I just don't know if there's anybody listen. Javonte's the draw, no question about it. I personally believe he should be the biggest drawing boxing right now because the brother delivers. It's just that simple. It's just that simple. He shows up in the ring and he handles his business. I gotta give credit and props where it's due. My question is, I don't know if there's anybody that's worthy of being in the ring with him in his weight class to make that big of a fight. At this point, that's my concern, not him the competition.
He went on, he want that fight with Tank because he was already happy with it. Like I keep chuching the cool gone, he gonna he gonna get what he's asking for it. Just do they want to take the money that's being offered for it for him? You know what I'm saying.
You know, so you just.
Gotta wait and see, man, Like I always sit there and say that, here's the bees that put the money up first before the fight happens.
You know what I'm saying.
They got to make sure the numbers make sense. And a lot of their numbers ain't what it is to our numbers. So they have to make sense because they ask for some crazy They ask them for some crazy numbers, you know what I'm saying, And they not putting the asses in the seat.
What does it take to be a great training in boxing and this day and.
Age, Ah, Man, it's different.
Man.
I call these kids now microwave babies. But if you got a you got an old school coach that believe old school, and the kid is willing to buy into the system. Because that's the most important thing, is buying it to the system of what they're preaching, what they're delivering, and and actually put more work in than the coach. You can get another great fight to come from anywhere.
How do we know, oh, when a fight takes place and it's the boxer as opposed to the trainer or vice versa. I asked that question Derrick James. I got mad respect for him. But Ero Spine Jr. Got beat real bad by Terrence Crawford, and obviously.
At that fight. That fight messed me up because I thought it. I never thought it would happen like that, two to the baddest fighters in the world at one forty seven man, they just looked at one side.
I was shell shocked. I never thought that Terrence Crawford would be able. I had Terrence Crawford winning that fight by decision. I never knew that it would be that lopsided, that he would outclass Aerospinch Junior that bad. It was so bad. I didn't think that Aero Spence. I'm glad that Everspons Junior hasn't fought in the last year. I'm very happy about that.
What about you, well, I wanted him. I said that in one of my podcasts. I said that and said, uh, Earl should take some time out, spend some time with his kid and enjoy life right there and really evaluate his life far as boxing. I'm saying because of something all the issues he's been going through for as health, car accidents, and you know a lot of things he's been going through. So you know, you really you really had to evaluate your body, and you know yourself better than anyone.
Ideally, I know you take on all comers or whatever your dream matchup. If you had one more fight left before you decided to retire, and you wanted Javonte Davis against one opponent to end your career as a trainer, the last thing you want to see, the greatest thing you want to see for him. Who would that fight be? Against?
Tank? Against Tank, That's the only person that's going to be. I'm just telling you the.
Only persons, not another take out there man.
The only person is going to be. It's a reason why Tank is here. I'm just that voicing his head and know how to push them buttons, and we still ain't see greatness. Yes, you know what I'm saying. Everybody talk about it quart to master boxes. But at the end of the day they with Tank did. He's setting everybody or notice, and I'm trying to give them a blueprint. Accept the money and see can you beat them?
Accept the money and see can you beat them? Well, my attitude is this, if you know there's a good chance that you're gonna get your ass kicked, why not just take it. Why not just try to get as much money as you can so it'll be worth it once you get the ass kick, which that would be mydake account.
I agree with you, But the heads that the heads look at them numbers one thing I know about this business. They sit around the table and see what you have been bringing to the table in the past. And when you start asking for certain things, people on that side will say, they say, nah, you ain't worthy of that.
You talk about Frank Martin. Big a mistake. Push that button, Javonte said, punch me in the face. Hit me in the face, and he did it bye with the left and he didn't even blink. I think the biggest mistake he made was in the fourth round decided and that he was gonna be on the ropes more. What the hell was he thinking? Going on the ropes against Tank Davis. I thought that was a mistake.
If you watch some of his fights, he does it all the time. That's nothing near to Frank. But again, and the words of Floyd Mayweather, you can sit right there, tell a fight of what you're gonna do, and the coach what you're gonna do? Can he stop it? That night of the fight, I watch pak Yell. But if pak Yel, pak Yell did the same thing, Oh, I'm gonna stop you from making that same move. You couldn't stop that move, you know. So again, it's when you get under them lights, man, You get under them lights, man, it's a different it's a different ballgame. It's a different ballgame when you get in that ring and stand across somebody. You said, said, Yo, the speed is different, the power is different. I can't hit him like I want. You get what I'm saying. I'm hitting him and here it's not even phasing.
Wow.
Only person that I see gonna be right man, it's Tank.
Okay, all right, I believe you. I don't see anybody in the lightweight division that's gonna beat him, that's for sure. I don't see anybody at one forty that I think is gonna beat him, that's for sure. So you got me there. Look, man, I appreciate your time. Man, Thank you so much for joining me when we got signal and all that stuff. I want to sit down. You know. That's a lot, my brother. I appreciate you, man. Thanks. I had to interview you. Man. I couldn't wait to talk to you. Man. Looking forward to talking to you and in the near future. And I'm gonna make sure you get some more of his fights in person. And I appreciate it, man, no doubt.
Thank you a right peace.
Moving on to the WNBA with this Sunday's game between Kaitlin Clarks Indiana Fevera and Angel Reese's Chicago Sky is expected to break records. Ticket prices to see the rivals play are the most expensive for a w NBA game ever. According to tick Pick, the cheapest seat to see the game coursed around two hundred and fifty dollars, with the most expensive ticket on sale for more than nine thousand dollars. The rematch comes on the heels of the Reese Clark rematch last Sunday, which was the most watched w NBA game in twenty three years. According to CBS Sports, the contest averaged two point twenty five million viewers and reached its peak at three million viewers. Each week, I picked Steven A's WNB Play of the Week, But this week I'm not picking one just one player. I'm picking the top two w NBA record setting rookies, Andrew Reese and Caitlyn Clark. This week, Reese recorded her seventh consecutive double double, the set of w NBA rookie record Thursday, as the Chicago's got eased past the Dallas Wings eighty three seventy two. Reese finished for sixteen points and season high eighteen rebounds. For the Sky was not the four game losing street, by the way, and after the Fever's victory over the Mystics last Wednesday. According to ESPN Stats and Information Research, Clarke is the first rookie in WNBA history to have forty points, fifteen rebounds, and fifteen assist in a two game span. The Fever have now won three in a row. The team's face off Sunday at four pm Eastern Standard Time on ESPN. Look Andrew Reese. This is for the validation that Caitlin Clark is not the only one being watched. Props to arew reach, no doubt about that. But it's also acknowledgement that Caitlin Clark is the golden goose. She's the cash cow and wherever she goes. Ratings follow the WNBA draft, the double head of the open NBA season. Ratings, ratings, ratings. I'm gonna remind y'all that in the twenty eight year history of the WNBA, only nine players in the league's history have eclipsed on court earnings of a million dollars. Think about that, average NBA salary is ten million. The NBA is on the verge of inking a seventy six billion dollar deal. The WNBA is gonna be happy when they push it past two hundred million in terms of revenue, which they easily will do. Because Caitlan Clark's mere existence has seen to that we have to acknowledge what the hell is going on. It's not something to hate, it's something to appreciate. Go after Caitlin Clark, beat her down as much as you possibly can get the best of her, Angrew Reese, go out there and win. You understand, it's not an accident that you waved your hand in front of her face when y'all beat them in the final four, because you want to send that message to beating the national champion. She want to send that message. Yo, you ain't all at but she is all that. But it wasn't gonna be enough to beat LSU. But then they exacted revenge and they got you back the next year. But you waving your hand in that face is what made are Reese box office herself. You gotta remember Andrew Reese. Her game, solid, professional, steady. She's gonna be in the league for a long time if she ain't wave her hand in Caitlyn Clark's face or in her face mimicking what Caitlyn Clark had done the numerous opponents she had slaved. If Angurie had not done that, Andrew reach would not have been a household name. That vitriology she was crying about the next year when she lost in the final and you know in Elite eight, okay, when she was really lamenting that loss and what have you remember she was talking about all the vitrey ill that was aimed in her direction. It's because she became popular, and that popularity has translated into dollars for angur reees. So she's getting HUDs, just like Kaitlyn Clark is getting hugs, and there's more out there to be gotten. Caitlyn Clark is the golden Goose, and Angrel Reese has figured out a way to market herself and to be marketable and to some degree, albeit a small degree, maybe utilize Caitlyn Clark's presence to pull it off. This is not an insult. This is acknowledging Andrew Reese was smart. That's not a crime. There should be more. Angel Reese is out there utilizing the golden goose to figure it out a way to elevate your cachet and your marketability. That's how you do it. Somebody comes along and sets the market and you piggyback off of it for your own profitability. It's the American way. One day you'll hear me say this message again and again and again, because I ain't gonna change it. Now. Let me get to my man, Paul George for the Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA. He'll be one of the most coverted free agents in this year's free agent market if he declines his forty eight point eight million dollar player option. He's been linked to the seventy six is and of course my New York Knicks, among other teams, in additional possible return to the Los Angeles Clippers. PG thirteen is what they called him, and he turned some heads with comments about what he is prioritizing and he takes as he takes the next step in his career. This from podcast People, Paul George was in about Wave sports and entertainment.
Take a look at this point, I'm not even necessarily like it's not even about like you know, people saying chasing the championship, like, it's not that, but it's playing the right style of basketball.
It's what I'm chasing. Paul George, That was not the worsest comment in the world. My brother, you should be chasing the championship. You've been in the league long enough. You don't have a ring, you don't have an appearance in the NBA finals, and we all know how gifted you are. You should have been you should have Hell with that. Don't get me wrong, I'm not telling you to do it at the expense of your money, but damn, you've been playing the right way. Where that got y'all? Hell with that chase that ring, Chase that championship. Paul George is a championship quality player. Get it bro hell with that? I mean your damn this sounded like Larry Brown. I just want to play the right way. I want you to play the right way. No, of course, playing the right way matters, we all know that. But damn that chase the chip. You got the paper, Chase the chip. Basically, that's all I'm trying to say. Teams vone for Paul George services, whether or not they should be discouraged by this, No, shouldn't. The brothers class. He is a profession who'snna showup. He's gonna produce. But the bottom line is we don't need all that. We don't need all of that at all. So that's one subject of pull George. Here's the other. We know George has an iron joining the media after he retires, not only with his podcast, but also evidenced by the fact we joined. He joined me and my ESPN colleagues. Is an analyst during the NBA Finals on n b A Countdown. During that stint, he apparently had a bigger issue than I thought with me after I made this comment. Listen up, nobody on the planet knows what it's like to play without a start.
A don't this is what he doesn't countdown.
We need a break.
Now.
He saw all sitting there laugh and having a good time, and he seemed to brush it off as you've seen on that clip. But apparently I struck a nerve with him. He spoke more about that moment than another clip from podcast Pete An episode. Uh we just saw. Take a look at this for me, please.
Steven A had great advice, Michael Wilbon had great advice, Kenchick Perkins had had great advice. Everybody was blowing it up there that I didn't like that moment just because of like he's like and I and and I rock with steven A obviously, but just like let it.
Go, you know what I mean, just just let And it's not.
That he like Kawhi wants to play like I will keep beating that over the head until I'm like, you know, out of breath. He wants to play like, he keeps like making it something that Kawhi doesn't want to play or he doesn't want to be there like it just you know, I think we rolled up Kawhi a lot. This year to where it kind of got to the point of like, hey, like, there's only so much my body can take right now. Like we exhausted a lot out of Kawhi this season, and so I just think at some point your body breaks you down, and that's just I think that the case there.
But I wasn't. I didn't.
I didn't appreciate that moment. I know, I laughed because it was, you know, supposed to do just because of the situation. It was lighthearted, but you know, deep down, it was just like, man, you gotta let that go.
Stephen Ah when you're right, You're right, Paul George's right. You know, here's we'd really hits home. I put him in a bad spot. That's Kawhi Leonard's teammate. And it was the furthest thing from my mind. What happened was is that ESPN had alerted us to the fact that if Kawhi Leonard is not healthy enough and available for Olympic competition this summer in Paris, that a likely replacement for Kawhi Lennon would be White of the Boston Celtics. And so they were talking about that and I was like, well, congratulations with Derek white because we all know the Kawhi Len's gonna be hurt and he's gonna be available. And that was basically the lightheartedness that it was coming from. Where Paul George is absolutely right, and I do owe him an apology for that as a professional. That's Kawhi Leonard's teammate. And it was the furthest thing from my mind thinking about how Paul would look on the set with us, because I'm just busy being lighthearted and having a good time while we talking about the NBA. Finally you saw everybody laughing and stuff like that. You know, I'm not thinking about how Kawhi could be looking at it towards Paul George. It was the furthest thing from my mind. So when I saw that clip with Paul George saying what he said, I said, Damn, I ain't think about that. He got a good point because Paul George loves Kawhi Leonard, loves his teammate. He always speaks highly of him. Got nothing but love and respect for him the whole bit. And I didn't. I should not have put Paul George in that position. So Paul George is absolutely right, and anybody that thinks that I took issue or I take issue with anything that Paul George said there. They are wrong. They don't know me. It's not true. Paul George is right. My bad, bro. I should have been more thoughtful. I really should having said that. If Paul George wasn't there, I would not have given the shit. I meant every word I said, Although it was tongue in cheek and playful. Oh, I meant that shit. I'm not and to and for clarification purposes so Paul George and podcast people will understand this, him and the screw boys, who I like. By the way, let's be very clear, I'm never questioning the legitimacy of Kawhi Leonard's injuries. I know the injury is real. I know he wishes he could play more. I know he's not faking it. I would never accuse of professional athlete, any athlete, of such an egregious thing. What I'm saying is he always makes sure to get his damn money, though, and he always makes sure to get the perks that he clamors for. You gotta remember he held the Clippers hostage to get Paul George. Don't let me even pick up the stats and remind you or the numbers or the information and remind you of what the Clippers gave up to the Oklahoma City Thunder in order to acquire Paul George. It was Kawhi Leonnard that sat up there and blackmailed the Los Angeles Clippers by saying, I'm going to the Los Angeles Lakers with Lebron and Ad if y'all don't get Paul George up in here and Steve Bauman. The Clippers couldn't let Kawhi Leonart, Lebron James, and Anthony Davis be in a purple and goal for the Los Angeles Lakers. It wouldn't have been fair. So that's what they did. That's what they did, and they gave up Shae Yiog just Alexander, remember that. Remember that. So I'm telling you, Yo, you make sure to do all of that to get your dollars, to get your paper, to make get every perk you can get, but you're never available for when it really really counts. I believe that Paul George with Kawhi Leonard have a legitimate shot to win the championship. I don't think Dallas beats the Clippers if Kawhi leonartt plays in that series. I don't believe that the Clippers could not beat Oklahoma City or could not beat Minnesota if Paul George and Kawhi Leonard are on the court together. Kawhi Leonard is almost never available when it counts. He's missed forty six percent of his regular season games thy percent of his playoff games. Come on, now, I ain't making this up, so I stand by what I said. Now. I just shouldn't have done it with Paul George sitting there because that put him in a bad spot. So for that, Paul George is right, and I apologize. I rock with Paul George, I rock with Peg and Draymond, and I haven't spoken or whatever. Doug. You don't ever have to speak to me again. Dre, I love you, bro. I'm gonna rock with you always, so we good. But when you wrong, you gotta be man enough to acknowledge that you was wrong. I didn't really, I didn't do it intentionally, and I didn't think about Paul George being on that set and how we laughing and laughing, how Kawhi could have looked at it as him laughing at Kawhi no, Kawhi, he was not doing that. It was that I was kind of funny at the moment and they were all laughing, and we were on TV and we were doing a television show. But I didn't get much thought to it, and I should have because I'm the pro, and I should have thought more about putting Paul George in that position. That's my bad, But I meant that shit I said about Kawhi Leonard. I still mean that shit, and I'm gonna continue to meet it until the brother is available to play in the playoffs. I'm at a point right now, Paul George, I don't give a damn. I kawhile in the place twenty games during the regular season if it means he'll be healthy complay up time. I'm not desperate. I'm not desperate to see him in the playoffs. I really want to see him there dropping thirty eight one game, walking off the court looking perfectly healthy, and then the next day he ain't available for the rest of the playoffs. This is what we've seen. That's where I stand with it, bro, But I won't make that mistake again with you on the set. My bad. By now, by the way, transitioning to another subject. You know that the boss and substance of the reigning NBA champion, right, and that final MVP honors went to Jaylen Brown. Right. Well, Brown had an interesting shirt on that seemed to be aimed at ware while holding the MVP trophy preparing for the parade. Take a look at this, y'all. How are we feeling, Jamie? Take a player?
Are you ready?
You're ready? Yes, sir, here we go that shirt. State your sources. He was referring to comments I made stating an anonymous source that told me Brown's quote unquote attitude was hurting his marketability. Even though I didn't say about attitude. I said he's not likable to something in some people's eyes. That's what I specifically said. No problem, state your source. That's not gonna happen. It'll never happen. Any journalists worth his salt ain't naming the sources, says. Get that out the way. First number two, did y'all know that Jaylen Mama came up to me to give me a hug in Dallas the day that they got annihilated in Dallas. They were down about forty eight points and they lost that game. They got shellacked before winning Game firs, Game four, Mama came up to me. Do you know who came up to me hours later that evening after Mama had come up to me to give me a big hug? Mama, Jaylen Brown's mama. You know who came up to me. You know Grandma. Now I know he had a death in the family that he alluded to, and God bless her wonderful soul and what have you. That's who was introduced to me by his brother. By the way, do you know what they said? They thanked me. You know why they thanked me because they got the message. I have no problem with Jaylen Brown. I got nothing but love for JAYLEB. Brown. A black dude, highly intelligent, great player, incredible role model. Don't get in any trouble. His head is on right, disciplined, focused, tenacious, successful, wealthy now with his new three hundred and four million dollar contract from last summer, and oh, by the way, he's a champion with the endorsement deals. Why have I been seeing Jason Tatum in every damn commercial? How can we see all of these teammates from AD and Lebron to you know, PG and Kawhi to step and Clay and the list goes on and onth why do we see all of these brothers with marketing opportunities but we don't see the same for Tatum. With Brown, I wasn't calling out Brown like Brown did something wrong. I was highlighting the fact that he's all the things you should want in a role model who's an athlete, and Madison Avenue ain't giving him enough shine and attention and asking the question why is that? That's all I was doing because that's how you provoke conversation by talking about the absence of obvious nuggets that should be inserted and implemented into a conversation. That's how you do it. And the reality is that when it came to Jalen Brown, that wasn't happening. So name your source, name your sauce. Hell no, you ain't getting it. But know that people out there saying that. But his family saw the hand right on the wall, and they appreciated why I highlighted it. I highlighted it because this conscientious brother who's on the front line during the whole social justice movement, who's been a conscientious observer, who talked about taking his money and contributing to the Boston community, to the impoverished and disolate and disenfranchised in their surrounding areas and beyond. Who shined a spotlight on it and had the press conference to announce his new signing in that locale. What this brother is doing, what he's aiming to do, is special. Why should I have a problem with that? Why should anybody have a problem with that? If you're Jalen Brown and you are watching, could you please do me a favor and go back and listen to what I said and truly inhale and dissect what I was saying. I wasn't saying they were right. I was saying they were wrong. But you needed to be aware of the fact that some people are out there saying this about you. Don't you want to know where the bodies lie. Don't you want to know what's being said? Don't you want to know what specifically to debunk. If you don't know what you're targeting, you're swinging at air. And I happen to believe that's kind of productive. That's all I did, nothing more than nothing less. So whereas I could apologize the podcast p Paul George himself for saying what I said about Kawhi Leonard while on that set, while Paul George was on that set. I owe Jaylen Brown no apology. I don't know nobody an apology for what I said about Jaylen Brown, because I am right. He deserves to be liked, He deserves to be respected and revered. He deserves the shine that he received when he got the MVP aboard. And you know last point I'll make, Jaylen Brown, and I'm speaking directly to you, Jaylen Brown, why you cover your It looked like you were damn near ready to cry when they named you NBA Finals MVP. You know why, because you were just as shocked as a lot of people were, because you never thought they'd give it to you. You know why because the respect that you have earned, that you so richly deserved, is what you have been denied for years, which only accentuates and illuminates the original freaking point I was making. One day, y'all will learn or listen what I'm saying. Instead of just threatening and hating over who's saying it, listen to the content and the substance of what I'm breaking down to you and start blocking your ears. I'll move on from there. Coming up. You know I can't stand when people tell their personal business to the world. You know, I've always hate that shit. Wait until you hear what one NFL wife. What does woman said? What she says she did to get her Super Bowl winning husband to put a ring on it? Oh wait till y'all hear this. That's coming up next right here on Steven Nints Michell, don't go to way, don't go away. Everybody knows I demand excellence and I'm in it to win it. 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I dated the backup to piss him off. It worked. She added more detail, But the crux is this, she wanted more than she felt he was offering, so she went on and dated his backup quarterback. There's many ways we can go with this. When I heard the story, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. Originally, when I was approached with this story, I was told she cheated on him with the backup quarterback. That doesn't sound like what she's saying. What it sounds like is that she was hooking up. She had a casual relationship with him, but when he didn't want more, she went and started dating the backup to get him jealous, and then obviously that won him over. Okay, so that's not nearly as bad. All right, Because here's my thing, this is how bad. Let me tell you. Let me tell you how bad I am. They are married, they've been married for years. I don't recall how many kids they have together. I believe it's for if you acknowledge years later that you're cheated on me with somebody that I was close to, a teammate of colleague and stuff like that. Whatever are you done? You're done. Now. Here's where it gets tricky, especially for the ladies out there, and the fellas are gonna get very pissed off that I'm saying this. They're gonna accuse me of being a trader because I'm giving a male code here. To some degree, we don't admit it to each other, but with a lot of us are like this. Listen to me, Sherry, I'm talking to you. A lot of us like this. Chevy's one of my writers, Okay, so you know that's why I was yelling at her to listen to this. Did y'all know that men can be gone without being gone? See? Y'all think that just women are like that. I'm not talking about y'all as and women. I'm talking about everybody. You think women are the ones like that? I mean r Kelly. Listen. I never bring him up because I wanted his ass under the jail with what he did. Okay, But now that he's got thirty years, I could say when old woman's fed up. There ain't nothing you could do about. See, I can say that now. You know. I didn't listen to R. Kelly, by the way, as I digress, I didn't listen to R. Kelly when his ass was free because I knew he deserved to be under the damn jail. Okay, with the stuff he did, I didn't. I didn't think he deserved. I wouldn't listen to his music. But I'm all right to listen to his music now because he's in jail for thirty years, damn right, So I can say that. I just want to be clear. Normally I wouldn't bring him up, but I'm fine with it now. Knowing that he's in jail. It reminds me he's read right where he belongs. Now, let me get back to what I was saying. Y'all never asked about a man when he's fed up. Why don't y'all go there? You see, you're fed up as a woman. You don't want nothing to do with him. He fed up, He's still gonna want some of the cookie until he does. He's still gonna want whatever perks he's getting with you until he doesn't want it no more. But he already left because he knows you disrespected him or betrayed him. You're done. You don't even know. That is absolutely positively true. And a lot of cases with men and my line, my lie Mike, that it's totally true, totally the true. We don't play that shit. We ain't like that. It's just that why bother you? See, let me go in to love doctor mode, you know, And I say love doctor. I love mar and Laurence so much. But let me go into this molde right here. Let me go into the mold right. See, I understand certain things, Griff. Listen to me because I'm trying to help you out. I'm trying to keep you married, trying to keep you married. You might blow it, you know what I'm saying. Just listen to me, trying to help you out, all right, one of my producers, Griff, I'm trying to help you out. Listen up. Okay. You see, when you're a guy, I understand the difference between you as a woman and him as a guy. This dude can be all world. He could be absolutely magnificent. He could have you eyes rolling up your head, screaming in tongues. You as a woman will still walk away thinking about what you gave. As men, we always know we're getting. See the difference. He is hunting even when am I anything showy? Am I going off kilter? Am I within bounds? I want to make sure I'm not being x rated here. I'm just trying to educate. I'm just trying to I'm just trying to educate. I'm not gonna go any further than that cherry. Okay, I'm not gonna go any further than that, right, I'm just trying to break this down to you.
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You know you're getting when you're a guy. You always believe you're giving when you're a woman. So if you end up with somebody else, you gave to somebody else. If you're a guy, you talk. It's a lot easier. Not to say that it's easy, it's acceptable, it's warranted, it's being condoned in any way. But because that guy is that way natural, you as a woman are able to defer to how he is. To sit up there and say he's just a no good basket. Let me get him out of my life. But damn it, every way I turned, who knows what I'm gonna run into a guy is never believing his woman, the one he loves and wants, would do something like that if she's really feeling him. So when he finds out otherwise, you gave, you gave, that's what you did. Why you think Chris Rod did the stand up to tell tell, tell, I guess that's how you were raised. Why do you think he joked like that? Because that's a guy. Because somewhere along the way, I'm not talking about women. I'm talking about his woman, the woman he loves, the woman he trusts, the woman he invested in, the woman he believes in, the women he gave himself too. He's not believing that she would do that. So when she does that, it changes everything. Even if she's right in front of his face, he's gone, no matter how much she loves him. But here's my point to the ladies out there. How is it that y'all know that men have egos and males are ego dominant, but you forget that when it comes to your own man. What could possibly make you if you are missus Stafford, what could possibly make you think that it is okay for you to go home after revealing to the public I kicked it with his backup. What possible possible advantage could that could you peel from that? What a husband of yours who you have four kids with? I met the woman once. She's a nice lady. I'm not casting any aspersions on her character or anything like that. I would never disrespect Matthew Stafford's wife or anybody else's wife. I'm just making the point, what would make you think that's okay? Why would you do that? Why? Men are pissed off enough when you do some of those kind of things that somebody may do. Where you take it to another level is when you emasculate him. And a masculation sometimes is simply a willingness to let your business be known to the masters instead of keeping your marriage in house and your private matters private. That's when I got on Jada Pinkey Smith. I might not have liked certain decisions and things of that nature, but my issue with her was the public declarations and the public humiliation of will. He didn't deserve that. Keep it private, sol, I'm saying, Slom saying, let me get to the tweets forore, I get on out of here. Please show them up to me, Please let me, let me, let me do a couple of tweets, I get on out of here for the different weekend. Oh my god, Dan Latsky my buddy at once at ESPN. Oh my lord, this is unbelievable. I can't believe, he said to the tweet. This is ridiculous. I love him though, I love him to death. Steven A. Smith, where do you rank these jellies for peanut butter and jelly great strawberry, BlackBerry raspberry? First of all, I understand something about Dan Dan is nasty. You know Dan Dan. Knowing Dan, he probably put mayonnaise with peanut butters. I don't know what. I don't know. I don't put anything past him son something wrong with him. But he's a great guy and a great NFL analyst. By the way, I love him to death. But here's the deal. BlackBerry and raspberry ain't even in the mix. It would either be great or strawberry grete one strawberry two not applicable as BlackBerry and raspberry with Peter butter. How much you want to make a bet? BlackBerry or raspberry is what Dan Olotski uses. I bet the house, bet the house. Some wrong with him, but I love him. It's my man. I love him to death. Next tweet, show me what you got? Oh lord, somebody there lebron chitis. That's hilarious at bron got game prob lebron lebron kit as I'm sorry at bron got Games. Steven X Smith, what are your thoughts on MJ's Defensive Player of the Year season be improven, fraudulent due to a boost and inflated stats from staticians in Chicago? Absolutely positively nothing. When you want to call it with Michael Jordan, why don't you ask the players who were on the court against them? Stats are no stats and what it was like with him knocking you up and d and U up. Why don't y'all ask him that question? I ain't gonna buy that. Every team tries to inflate stats in some capacity when they want players to win awards. And remember that was before he won championships, so especially before you win championships. Do you know that voters like myself get notices at before All Star Breaking at the end of every season for individual awards from respected teams who are pushing their individual to get noticed for these awards. It's par for the course that happens all the time. It's absolutely positively nothing new, absolutely positive, nothing new. Why'd you get a player to get out there and talk about what it was like to be guarded by Jordan's Show me one player that go like this a bus Jordan's I was on the court with him. My bus deserves who's that player? Wat? I never heard of them? Now, last tweet? What you got at Jacques is Dexter or Dexas? Was it? Jack? Saint Jacques Dexter? Saint Jacques? Oh lord, Eddie Murphy, Oh lord, it was hilarious though that stand up Eddie Murphy did Dexter Saint Jack? This guy says Saint Jacques. Oh remember that, Eddie? And what what's coming to me? I wouldn't have remember, jay Z were girls, girls, girls. You know what I'm saying. When I met your ass, you was dead broken naked. Now you want half? Remember jay Z said that that's where he got that from. That's where he got that from. Girls, girls, girls, girls, I do a dull because put your number on the table because I would love to date your holler at you when we go off. Mm hmm. One of my old time favorites, jay Z holes in the house, no doubt, here's that, stephen A, what did you think of Kendrick's concert? I didn't see it, and I've worked for a living. I ain't got time to be You notice everybody that's there. It's the off season for them. Did you notice that Russell Westbrook, Lebron James, I think Kawhi Leondar was there. I'm not sure Rick Ross he was there. You know a few people there. I got it mad love to them, I said, Lebron Right, DeMar DeRozan, Chicago Bulls, Compton Native, all of that Westbrook. All notice is the day off, so offt season, see, Stephen, They got work. I work year round. Okay, I ain't have time, but I got love for Kendrick Lamar and I appreciated the LA contingent he had in the house. And I saw Lebron in the video going going viral with him rapping. I get all that mad respect for Kendrick Lamore. I don't want him and Drake beefing like that, but I got mad love for him. It is what it is, all right. I gotta get on out of here. That's it for this edition of The stephen Ate Smith Show. Hope y'all enjoyed it, I'll be back on Monday. Enjoy your week and be saved, God blessed, and i'll talk to you then. Beace, Love everybody,
