Stephen A. Smith Calls Out LeBron James: “You’re Not Michael Jordan!”

🎯 Stephen A. Smith Calls Out LeBron James: “You’re Not Michael Jordan!” | NBA 2025 Debate

🔥 In today’s episode, sports analyst Stephen A. Smith doesn’t hold back as he calls out LeBron James, claiming that LeBron will never be Michael Jordan! 👀
🏀 The heated debate continues — who’s the true 🐐 GOAT of basketball in NBA 2025? Is it LeBron James, still dominating in his 22nd season, or the legend Michael Jordan, whose legacy remains untouchable?

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💬 Stephen A. Smith’s bold statement about LeBron vs. Jordan
📊 The stats, rings, and leadership comparison between the two legends
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⏳ How this debate still defines basketball culture in 2025

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What it do? What it do? What it do? What it do? What it do? Back at you with another one. So today I got to talk about Stephen A. Smith on the pivot. Talking about how you mad at me cuz I said you not the goat when you not the goat. You know what I’m saying? See the thing is right, you can’t keep it real with people that don’t keep it real with their self. You know what I’m saying? And like how you going to like not like a man over his opinion? You know what I’m saying? It’s an opinion, bro. So, I don’t know if y’all heard what he said, but if y’all didn’t, I’mma play it and I’mma be right back. You don’t like me because you see me calling what? Calling it like I see it. You’re not Michael Jordan. You’re not the goat. You did choke in an NBA Finals. Four consecutive fourth quarters in an NBA Finals, this man was scoring four points. one game you scored zero points in the NBA finals fourth quarter with Jason Terry or JJ Berea guarding you there is no explanation for that to anybody who knows basketball that’s a choke job you overcame it major props to you’ve elevated yourself from the time that LeBron James won the championship against Oklahoma City throughout the rest of his career you can make a legitimate case of the goat argument with him against Jordan, but we get to piggy back off of the previous stuff that happened prior to that. Michael Jordan was averaging 30 10 times in his career. Played all 82 games nine times. Nine times are all NBA first team defensive player. A defensive player of the year. Okay. A six-time champion. A six-time NBA Finals MVP. A five-time MVP of the league. and in your 22nd or 23rd year, you still chasing. Now, I don’t know about the rest of y’all, but I think it’s obvious who the goat is in my estimation. Having said that, let’s appreciate the fact that a goat conversation is nothing denigrating anybody because I’m still acknowledging you as being in the conversation as the greatest of all time. So, we understand that, right? So, we get that out the way. But I also never looked at Michael Jordan and said he choked in the NBA Finals. I also didn’t see Michael Jordan joining D Wayade and Bosch and then AD. Okay. So, I didn’t see that. I’m sorry. Kyrie and Kevin Love before that. I didn’t see that. Okay. So, I get to look at that and deduce that’s my definition of a GOAT. and and and most people who watch the NBA would agree with me. Okay? If you want to disagree, fine. If you want to pretend you disagree, fine. Because this is an incredibly influential figure who is somebody that a lot of people believe if you associate with him, you could capitalize off of that exponentially because he’s successful, he’s connected, he knows things, he can help people, etc., etc. I got that part. But that don’t mean you should uh avoid acknowledging and recognizing the truth. And the truth is is that that’s what it is. And so I look at it from that standpoint and that’s where I’m at with it. Okay. Boom. So y’all heard him right. I mean it’s like when it comes to the goat conversation, right? You can’t re you can’t keep recurving the test. You know what I’m saying? You can’t keep ignoring things that disqualify you from the goat in order to have an argument cuz that’s what people keep doing, right? Like you like everything he named was a was was was and I feel like he really was being nice. Like he made his point, but he really was being nice. You know what I’m saying? like to like the Okay, let’s just start with where he started off. The finals after the Super Team, right? You choked in the fourth quarter multiple times and you had dudes like you had dudes that if they go into Walmart, you wouldn’t even recognize them as NBA players guarding you. Regularsized humans. Jason Terry is 6 foot one somewhere between 6’1 and 6’3 on a tall day. I don’t even think JJ Berea is six foot tall. You are 6’9 280 lbs at the time. Just off the physical alone they shouldn’t be able to guard you period. Just off of that. So it was all the lack of will. It was all mental. It was all mental. You mentally checked out. Jordan don’t have that on his jacket. Not one time. Not not not a not a He might can argue he shot a a shot, a bad shot. That’s all you can say about a Jordan or a Kobe type player is they might have not passed it to a teammate that was open and shot that fade away, but they didn’t shy away. You know what I’m saying? they they gun going to be empty at the end of the gunfight. You know what I’m saying? So, and then this whole thing like the next thing he said and I totally disagree with this that he overcame that. No, he didn’t. He just figured out how to go around it. He didn’t overcome being clutch in the fourth and taking over games in the fourth. No, he didn’t. He just leveraged Dwayne Wade, Kyrie Irving. That’s what he did. Cuz something else you will never find the game on the line and and and Michael Jordan in the corner. Find the tape. Find it. Or Kobe. Find the tape. The game on the line. They’re in the corner like this. Knowing they don’t want the ball, but they’re just in the corner. ain’t gonna find it. Ain’t going to find it. So this whole thing that he he he came he overcame that he didn’t overcome it. He didn’t overcome it. He just realized that he can fool you with his overall stats regardless of the impact of those stats. That’s what he did. So now it’s like I don’t have to show up in the fourth. As long as I got my 277 and seven or better, I’m off the hook for the blank. That’s what he figured out. But as far as he overcame, he didn’t overcome that. No, disagree. He figured out to put players around him that can do that. That’s what he did. So no, I disagree 100%. and this whole like still trying to chase him like bro it’s over with. It’s over with. You want year 22 23. I can’t I’m I lost count by now. Like whatever. But you can’t take twice as long to do less and then try to claim you better than somebody. Like stop it. It’s not. It’s over with. Just It’s getting tacky at this point. Like, bro, just go out with some dignity. You know what I’m saying? Like, just go out with some dignity, right? And then he mentioned the whole the joining Bosch and Wade cuz for real, the gold conversation was over when he did that. The gold conversation was over when he left Cleveland. just keeping it a like it was over then. That’s that’s really when it was over. When you went the super team route, it was over with. Like, stop it. It was over with then. Like, what are we even talking about? You know what I’m saying? You can’t be better than me and you shortcut it and then less than me. How does that make sense? You cheat on the test and get worse grades than I did on the test and you better than me. Like, come on, man. just just just stop it. Right? And then he said something else in there that that I think people go might not catch. Right? He said people pretend you disagree with Jordan being the goat, right? Is that his way to say it’s a lot of people in the in the media acting? You know what I’m saying? Like they they just saying what Clutch might be, you know, assisting them in their opinions cuz that’s been very rumored, very rumored that cuz I I always I’ve been thinking that for years cuz I’m like people can’t be this dumb to really think this like you know what I’m saying this goat karma like you goat goat what goat what goat where you’re not better than Kobe. I was there. What? What goat conversation? You know what I’m saying? What goat conversation? You ain’t pass Kobe. You know what I’m saying? So, I don’t know. I’m just happy that Stephen A. Smith kept it a book. You know what I mean? I’m I’m mad it took like for them to fall out for him to be so upfront with how he feel. I wish all media was like that. Like it would be so much better if everybody in the media just gave their 100% true opinions. You know what I’m saying? With like no worry about you, you know, somebody trying to end your career and trying to get you fired and all of that. Like just, you know what I’m saying? just your I feel like the best opinions was like NBA players opinions before NBA players got in the media officially, right? I feel like that was the best them was the best opinions when they asked exNBA players before this wave of NBA players being in the media. I feel like that was the best opinions. But y’all tell me what y’all think. Like, comment, subscribe. See y’all on the next one. Peace. It’s