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The ESPN star, Stephen A. Smith, retaliated on Charles Barkley for the warning that renowned basketball has given the sporting personality to be over-eager in the media.
Smith prefaced his comments on his podcast saying that he had respect and an appreciation for Barkley, suggesting that the two were very close.
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Stephen A. Smith on ESPN NBA Countdown Live Set in Intuit Dome. (Kirby Lee-Imagn images)
“He’s my guy, but that does not mean that I always agree with him. And that does not mean that I am abundant to call him a flamboyant hypocrite when he is called,” said Smith on “The Stephen A. Smith Show”. “Do you all know how many advertisements Charles Barkley is a year? He will tell us two. Have you seen Charles Barkley in two advertisements? You make fun of me? Oh, by the way, the cat with which you work at least twice a week during the NBA season is Shaquille O’Neal.
“Can we count the amount of approvals he has? How often he saw everywhere? What new product he presents? Did you say that about it? No, you didn’t do it. But when it comes to me, I need to be” careful “.”
Smith wanted to go to the “heart of the question”.
“And it is not directed to Charles Barkley. This is done to all people -I make people there -I make people very uncomfortable, and I do not give S -“, said Smith. “You can talk about people who do not take me seriously whatever you want, we will see, because I am a serious brotha. It does not mean that I don’t know how to laugh and smile and have fun, you know who I am.”
Barkley made his remarks during an appearance on “Do’t @ me with me with Dan Dakich d’Outkick”.
The former star of Philadelphia 76ers said that he would not vote for Smith for the president before warning Smith that people could become “sick” from him.
Charles Barkley attended the Redmont Challenge with Charles Barkley in Puttshack Atlanta on April 8, 2022 in Atlanta. (Prince Williams / Wireimage)
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“I was in the studio last night and I saw that he was going to be on” Law & Order “tonight. I mean he is already at” General Hospital “, he is already at” General Hospital “, now he will be on” Law & Order “tonight, and I laughed.
“Like, you are going to be on CNN, you are going to be on” Fox & Friends “, now you on” General Hospital “, now you on” Law & Order “, I am like”, you, launch. But once you do too much, it is too late and people do not take you seriously, and I think it must pay attention to this aspect. “
Barkley said he wanted to be on television less and less, because “less that’s more”.
“My friends close to me give me a lot of credit, and I do not blow my own horn, I want to be on television as much as possible, to be honest with you dan. This is why I do only a few advertisements per year. I am not going to a lot of shows, the less it is, because the more you do not feel, the less you take all people.
Stephen A. Smith during the initial presentation of Disney 2024 held at the North Javits Center on May 14, 2024 in New York. (Kristina Bumphrey / Variety via Getty Images)
“I argue with my agent, he said that we could make five advertisements per year, I said that we are going to make two advertisements per year, that’s all. I don’t want to be on television all the time. The more, I want to be less on television.”
