One Expert ESPN, Stephen A. Smith, returned LeBron James’s fly on Wednesday after the Los Angeles Lakers star fired on the broadcaster on “The Pat McAfee Show” during their confrontation earlier this month.
James made fun of Smith as a person who went on a “Taylor Swift tour” explaining the inflamed moment of the crypto.com Arena. He also had fun in Smith for having said that he did not want to speak at the time, but only did it because the video had become viral, and he had to do it.
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The Los Angeles Lakers striker LeBron James, n ° 23, interacts with his bronny James in the match against the Boston Celtics at The Crypto.com Arena de Los Angeles on January 23, 2025. (Kirby Lee-Imagn images)
The Lakers player said Smith “lacked the whole point” of the argument. James said he defended not only Bronny James, his son, but also his teammate after Smith criticized Bronny for being in the NBA in the first place.
Smith retaliated on James later on Wednesday on his own podcast. He started to say that James was “full” of it and that he “lied” in the McAfee show.
“I didn’t know he was going to roll me,” said Smith. “I had no idea. But when he said what he had to say, I was not able to give a kind of replica without making a stage. It was during the third trimester. It was freshly out of a dead time. It was walking towards the basketball field. It was on national television, the cameras were and if I had done something, what did you want all?
Stephen A. Smith in 2021. (Imagn)
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“And let me declare the record, that while we are breaking this, let me make sure that it would not have happened like that.
Smith denied “S — ING”, and he was not “applauding”, to Bonny James.
LeBron James tackled it in the McAfee show.
The Los Angeles striker LeBron James, # 23, smiles after having marked during the first half of a basketball match of the NBA against the Denver Nuggets on Saturday March 2, 2024 in Los Angeles. (AP photo / Mark J. Terill)
“And another (thing). He has completely missed the point, all the point. Never in my … I can never be able to talk about sport, to criticize the players of what they do on the field. It is your work – to criticize or be in a position where, OK, a guy does not play a protective not only my game.
