LeBron James continued beef after Pat McAfee uncensored appearance

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Stephen A. Smith continues his beef with LeBron James after his Pat McAfee uncensored appearance. Has he taken this too far? Fighting words get taken out of context. We touch more base on their much extended beef.

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00:00I'm just gonna ask this question directly. You've lied to get your opinion on this

00:04true or false

00:07It's Stephen a while it right now

00:10True and that's my guy, but he's wildin

00:14He doesn't get he doesn't get the joke just of it

00:17He doesn't get the point and I don't know if maybe he just real you know what I think I'm gonna be honest

00:22This is what I think and I it's not I've talked to him or anything like that and he probably won't say it is I

00:27Just got that I just got the bag, right

00:30Yeah, he's got a hundred million dollar bag. Yo, I just got the bag. I'm hot right now

00:35This is gaining a lot of traction. Let me continue this

00:39Let me continue this because if I just got the deal now, and I'm even hot

00:43This is putting my name out there even more. I

00:46Mean, you know come a year or two. I can renegotiate

00:50In a while, but like this is crazy. He's the only one that brings this up

00:55Love the pettiness by LeBron because in LeBron went to ESPN, but he didn't talk to him

01:01You didn't talk to him this show. He talked to it a show after him

01:05That's pettiness right there. I've never seen LeBron like do one of those things on ESPN

01:09I not only SPN other people's platforms or his own he may do that, but that's it second. I just love it

01:16It's like John Cena do what a year

01:1925 John Cena LeBron James if they just turn heel they look like I'm not a baby face. I'm not a heel

01:24I'm you

01:26LeBron was heel in Miami though. You gotta admit. Well, you know, you know, he was hated but

01:31Nonetheless, he's he's at his final. He's at his final stages of his career. He just didn't like him and Stephen

01:37They never got along

01:38I think it was kind of known but not publicly known but you kind of got the gist of it like you had you got

01:43The idea that they didn't really mess with each other

01:45But now you know what's going on and like I said, and I think everyone knew we were also when he made that comment about

01:54Bronny

01:55Bronny's game. Bronny was getting torched by Tyrese maxi

01:59The whole team was but there was context to that

02:02They were I think the third game in four nights and they were also had two guys who were hurt in the backcourt

02:08so Tyrese maxis one of these one of them ones and

02:12Yeah, it was a play where he busted Bronny's ass

02:15but when you go as a

02:18Father like Marcos, I can't come to you and say as a father. You shouldn't let tadpole do this or that no

02:26No, I'm talking about your parental skills. I'm judging you. No, I can't do that

02:30That is not my place nor was it Stephen a space now if you're talking about as a player like nah

02:36Hey Lakers as an organization

02:38Don't do that or that to you know, don't have Bronny out there. That's one thing

02:43But when you say as a father, please please not now, I got it. I got to check you now

02:48I got it. Now. You got to talk to me and then

02:52Stephen a come on man

02:54You always say Pete. I'm never I'm outside. I'm outside

02:57well

02:57you outside and man came up to you and you realize six nine two sixties a little bit different than

03:02When it's face to face to you then when it is on TV screen or when you're in the studio

03:07so

03:09now the

03:12Quote that is currently going viral as of right now is

03:17Of you know, it's it's taken a bit out of context, but he still did say it, you know

03:24Stephen a Smith claiming that he would have swung on LeBron. Come on, man. Come on now

03:31Again, I do say that it was taken out of context because Stephen a does go on to admit that you know six foot nine

03:37He probably would have got pummeled immediately after if you know, you're gonna get pummeled why you gonna swing

03:42No, sometimes you have to bro. So like let's say I'm with my girl and I'm

03:47In in what sense when you know that you made a comment see this is not one of those instances

03:55Yeah, in another instance, yes, I can understand that this wasn't one of those instances this ain't it buddy

04:01It's not a good look for the talking head at ESPN and

04:07you know, I'm not gonna say this is gonna become the decline of Stephen a Smith, but

04:13Not a good look to not a good look. It is. Yeah Marcos. Yeah, if the Lakers make the finals

04:20And he wins

04:23You know awkward it's gonna be when Stephen a has to try to talk to LeBron LeBron's not answering any of his questions

04:30That's awkward. That's gonna be and it may lead to other superstars who don't really mess with him like that

04:36Not speaking to him and now what happens when the you're the face of your network or the voice of your network in the sport

04:43That you know, he is known for it's not getting all the people now he could say

04:48Yeah, he's talking to all the execs and all that stuff. That's cool

04:51You know, that's cool. Nobody but the the public the public doesn't care about if you talk to an NBA exec

04:57They want to know if you're talking to the NBA superstar

04:59So you you guys are absolutely

05:03talking about

05:05Bronies, you know, yeah

05:07This is this is a full quote from him. This is Stephen a addressing LeBron James appearance on the Pat McAfee show

05:13I just want to say for the record LeBron James is full of it

05:16And in this particular instance as it pertains to his son, he is a liar

05:20He went on national television today and he lied again

05:23You see when he approached me while I was sitting courtside at that game against the New York Knicks when he rolled up on me

05:28I didn't know he was gonna roll up on me

05:30I had no idea

05:31But when he said what he had to say I was in no position to give any kind of retort without making a scene

05:36He goes on to say let me stay for the record that while we bring up that let me assure you it wouldn't have gone

05:42Down like that talking about comparing the situation to the Chris Rock Will Smith situation

05:47He says I would have gotten my ass kicked

05:50Because had this man put hands on me, I would have immediately swung on

05:55I'll immediately that I'm not going to tolerate but I knew he wasn't going to do something like that

06:05That's okay, let me let me let me explain some to you. Yeah

06:10We take on the cap. We take the professionalism of

06:16People

06:17to determine

06:19What they are and aren't gonna do

06:21So you come up with this hypothetical situation

06:25Very hypothetical think think about this

06:30Would he go to after some of those Knicks of the 90s like that

06:35No, because those guys were scrappy no

06:39Because it's he know what's up. He know LeBron

06:43Stephen a feels like

06:46From this is just from the way he's talking away just his comments

06:50It's as if he feels like he's got to hold on to the 90s and 2000 era

06:55because people are

06:57people are

07:00Loving this era this this current generation of superstars and maybe taking a shot at the the previous generation

07:08so

07:09Therefore it's as if he's the the media member who's got a he still got the cachet, obviously

07:14so he's got to be the one that still remind people like oh no the era that I was growing up in or the

07:2090s and 2000 era was better and it's that's why he'll know he would have never done that to Oakley

07:25He would have never done that to mace. He would have never done that to Karl Malone

07:28He would have definitely never done that to Michael because everybody kissed the you know

07:32Ground Mike who walked on and they still do because they're afraid of the man. Come on, man. He's still John DeSais, but nonetheless

07:45You know Michael Jordan's a great man everything he's done always anything he touches is great except for those Charlotte Hornets, but uh,

07:52Yeah, and that's the other thing. They're so afraid of that. So this it's weird because it's like alright this generation

07:58That's their guy every generation has their guy whether it's music

08:02acting

08:04Sports everybody has every generation has their guy and if their guy is great

08:08They're gonna compare it to the other greats from previous generations

08:11It's just now we're in a social media world where you have access to to compare things, you know

08:17Yeah, we saw Michael Jordan play, but guess what?

08:20Not enjoyed him playing this primers. It's nearly 30 years ago. That's a long time folks

08:25That's a long time people gonna have their own version of who they go to just I just think as

08:31again as a person that's seen all

08:37You know different sports and all different errors

08:41Right, I would say

08:43You just take today's error for what it is

08:47I'm not comparing it to another

08:50You know error because I do believe that

08:54NBA

08:56NFL and

09:00Basketball I mean in hockey or baseball elite players would have been able to play in any era

09:07Right, like it's just that that's just the way I you know, I believe that and

09:14To say that. Oh this guy wouldn't have been able to do this. This guy wouldn't have been

09:19Could you imagine Karl Malone being a damn point guard?

09:23No

09:24You tell me LeBron couldn't play like

09:31The bombs point I mean a lot of those guys were playing against guys who had second jobs, you know

09:35I mean I had to do just second jobs at the end

09:38Listen, I'm not knocking

09:43No, no, I agree with you I'm just saying we cannot listen we love sports sports evolves just like life

09:49Don't you think we all would love cheap, you know guys gas at 5-7. Hey, I'd like to buy eggs for cheap

09:56Now they got to sell Lucy eggs. This is you know, things change things happen. Those Lucy eggs really got to you

10:05That's crazy

10:10Hey, hey, that's the crazy part

10:13like listen

10:15You know in the pack of cigarettes and say

10:18Not to be so

10:21But if you go to the corner store

10:24Right, you best believe somebody buying a single smoke. Definitely. Yeah

10:29Yes, they will but so it's it's it's crazy, but I just feel like

10:34It's almost as if he's being told or not even be him being told he's being emboldened just

10:41To stand up and be the voice for the previous

10:47repercussions

10:49Like if if if he was from the 70s or 80s and he was making that argument and

10:55Saying stuff like this to them guys in the 90s. He would have got dealt with on a different level

11:00But my funny Lee word listen what you just said so these 90s guys are acting like this towards this current generation

11:06What do you think the 70s and 80s guys were thinking about them? Right like

11:12That's why I don't compare like I don't like that. I think great players

11:17Would have been great because guess what we talked about

11:23We talked about

11:25Like guys like Larry Bird and how non-athletic they were or whatever

11:33One of the best players in the league is not seem like doesn't look like an athletic Adonis and as Joker

11:41so you have

11:43different versions of the same

11:47player but what has changed in all of sports and

11:52this is in

11:55a lot of different sports

11:57okay is the fact that a

12:03Six

12:04foot guard in say Isaiah Thomas

12:08That dude is now six five six six six seven

12:13with still the same handles

12:15And I'll swing on it. And so when you say, you know

12:21What there's more Magic Johnson's there's more guys six seven six eight six nine can handle the ball

12:28Then there was when Magic Johnson was doing it

12:31Woody like so like that the different errors and

12:36How it's evolved

12:39Right. Could you imagine?

12:41Could you imagine a lineup today? I don't care how physical

12:48It was in the 70s and 80s and 90s

12:53But when your smallest guy on your team is six five

12:58six six on the court

13:00Yo, ho, yeah your center and your two forwards are all six ten

13:06seven foot it's six eleven, right? That's a different style of

13:12like basketball

13:14Those bigs are so much more skilled then let's just get 20 rebounds and some putbacks

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