Stephen A Smith reacts to David Falk’s recent comments regarding the NBA GOAT debate

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00:00He's one of the greatest players to have ever lived. I have him number two all time.

00:05The thing that we have to understand that's important about this conversation

00:10is when we debate the GOAT, the negativity of it comes from LeBron and his camp.

00:18Nobody else. When we say he's number two all time, we're appreciating the fact that of the

00:24thousands upon thousands of players that have played in the NBA since 1950, 1947, 1950 rather.

00:32Okay. LeBron James, there's only one player we look at and we say definitively we think was better.

00:37And that was, that was Michael Jordan. What did I say to Rich Paul one day? You act like that's an

00:42insult. Rich Paul's response. It is an insult because that is how they have acted when it

00:50comes to the GOAT conversation. You were recognizing the fact that they were trying to compel people

00:56to say he was the greatest. Michael Jordan didn't say that about himself. Kobe Bryant didn't say that

01:01about himself. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar didn't say that about himself. Bill Russell didn't say that about

01:05himself. Tim Duncan didn't say that about himself. Nobody said that. Nobody but him in his camp.

01:12Steph Curry hasn't said that about himself. Steph Curry has never called himself the greatest

01:15shooter of all time. Ray Allen never called himself the greatest shooter of all time.

01:18Reggie Miller never called himself the greatest shooter of all time. Allen Houston never called

01:22himself the greatest shooter of all time. Nobody called themselves the greatest in anything

01:25but that man and his camp. And then when we refuted in any way, people like myself and

01:32Mike Wilbon and others, when we walked the streets, we're haters. Erica, do you realize that David

01:38Falk is in the conversation as the GOAT of agents in history? David Falk is unquestionably

01:47one of, if not the greatest agent in the history of sports. And I know of no one. I've encountered no one

01:55in the sports agency industry who would refute that kind of assertion about him. They all black, white,

02:04and everything in between. That is who said Jordan instead of LeBron. And yes, he did business with

02:12Jordan along with various other players. And he's the kind of dude that's going to always go

02:16with his guys because that's how he roll. But it doesn't make him a liar.