Michael Jordan Isiah Thomas beef, conspiracy theory nonsense, and fried squirrel?!

In this episode, Stephen A. comments on NY Jets quarterback Aaron Rogers’ Sandy Hook controversy, and NBA Hall of Famer, Isaiah Thomas’ demand for a public apology from Michael Jordan on The Draymond Green Show podcast. All that and more.

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Shannon sharp Donald Trump Aaron Rodgers what the hell do they have in common absolutely nothing other than this point I’mma be talking about all of them today Stephen A Smith showing in the house let’s go what’s up everybody welcome to the latest edition of the Stephen A Smith

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Always whenever I’m in studio I take your calls to end out the show 888 727 5303 is the number to call up that’s 888 s533 let’s move on to the show itself and touch on something that’s very very serious to be quite honest with you earlier this week I told you about the

New York Times report that New York Jets quarterback Aaron roders was on a VP short list to be a running mate for Robert F Kennedy Jr RFK Jr who’s running for president as an independent also has former Minnesota governor and pro wrestler Jesse The Body Ventura on that

List as well but let’s talk about Rogers for a second whose alleged comments from the past have now come back into Focus that’s what happens when you’re being considered for the second highest office in the country that’s just the way that it goes according to a recent CNN report

Aaron roders questioned the validity of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting that killed 20 children and six adults CNN says they know of two people with whom Rogers has shared conspiracy theories about the tragedy one of them is Pamela Brown who was covering the Kentucky Derby for CNN in

2013 when she was introduced to Rogers at a post derby party hearing that she was a journalist with CNN she says Rogers immediately began attacking the news media for covering up quote unquote important stories Rogers brought up the tragic killing of 20 children and six adults by a gunman at Sandy Hook

Elementary School claiming it was actually a government inside job and the media was intentionally ignoring it another unnamed Source attributes the following to Rogers quote they’re all making it up they’re all actors the person said Rogers asserted about the parents of the victims who they said Rogers also believed were

Actors the New York Jets had no comment on the CNN report but Rogers responded by issuing this following statement on x quote as I’m on the record saying in the past what happened in Sandy Hook was an absolute tragedy I am not and have never been of the opinion that the events did

Not take place again I hope that we learn from this and other trag IES to identify the signs that will allow us to prevent unnecessary loss of life my thoughts and prayers continue to remain with the families affected along with the entire Sandy Hook Community end quote I will remind you again 20

Children ages six and seven elementary school children were murdered along with six adults bravely trying to save their life by the way all were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14th 2012 Rogers may say he has no belief in saying hook conspiracies but before I

Get into my opinion let me tell you he did recently appear for 3 hours on the look into it podcast with Eddie Bravo and look at the list of just some of the things he discussed on the show in February germ therapy and terrain therapy or terrain Theory the Great

Awakening the US borders weaken at Bern Joe Biden operation Northwoods Operation Paperclip Tesla Library of Alexandria tataria JFK assassination list goes on and on George Soros the list goes on and on I know I’m being redundant but I’m at a loss for words because I don’t want to believe this

About Aaron Rogers I refuse to believe this about answer Amon Rogers because at the end of the day we’re all human beings and I would like to believe that the most innocent amongst us are children and to know that they got bur they got murdered and for for that to be

Denied when we’ve seen the loss of life we’ve seen funerals we’ve seen parents crying on Capital Hill imploring our elected officials to get gun control under control we’ve seen all of this and to have anybody minimize or engage in conspiracy theories to deny something along those lines it’s indecent it’s

Egregious and it’s Unbecoming and that is not a person that any of us should want to be associated with and that is not how I feel about Aaron Rogers I love me some Aaron Rogers I love him as a player I think he’s a phenomenal phenomenal player athlete Superstar

Quarterback I’ve had the pleasure of speaking to him on a few occasions and yes he is bright and yes he is becoming more and more well read over time and he has his opinions and stuff like that you can agree you can disagree you can differ or whatever but up until recently

I’ve never never seen him associated with anything that I would consider indecent now I did not like the fact that he literally intimated that Jimmy Kimmel could be on Jeffrey Epstein’s list but he came on the Pat McAfee show shortly after and explained what he was saying

And he highlighted how Jimmy Kimmel had been attacking him for quite some time he still went a bit too far in my estimation but he didn’t accuse Jimmy Kimmel of being on the list he basically intimated that he was cracking jokes at them just like Jimmy Kimmel is known to

Crack jokes at Aaron Rogers Jimmy Kimmel didn’t take it that way and he should not have taken it that way and that is not something you should joke about and he said it plain as day fine but now there’s this now for me in the interest of

Fairness I would ask this of the CNN reporter and CNN as a network why are we hearing about this just now if this is what transpired in 2013 how is that happening if if you’re in the news business how is something relevant 12 years later when you never mentioned it 12

Years ago I understand that Aaron roders may be a VP running mate of RFK Jr but he isn’t yet and if he isn’t yet then what would be the reason for bringing this up now and if you’re going to bring this up now where’s the evidence because I got news for you

After Aaron Rogers issued his statement the burden is on Miss Pam Brown the burden is on CNN where’s your evidence you reported allegations of Aaron roders being associated with a conspiracy theory that denies the killings the murders of elementary school kids in Sandy Hook Elementary School where’s your

Evidence that’s where the onus lies now but if Aaron Rogers is guilty of such a thing if the NFL threw his ass out with the bath W I wouldn’t blame him if the New York just wanted nothing to do with them I wouldn’t blame them there are

Certain lines you just don’t cross and that would be crossing the line I just find it very difficult to believe that Aaron roders would do something like that not the person not the Aaron Rogers I’ve spoken to periodically over the years I don’t see that I find it very

Hard to believe but I don’t no not to do the rest of us but the onus is not on Aaron Rogers now now cuz he issued his statement now the onus is on CNN to show us proof since you put that story out for the world to

See period next on the Stephen A Smith show right here we’ll get into the NBA race for bottom of the Western Conference plus Dion is doing a hell of a job recruiting from home all that and I’m getting on someone who considers fried squirrels a delicacy that’s it’s just nasty it’s

Just nasty but I’ll explain in a minute you’re watching the Stephen A Smith show right here over YouTube back with more in a minute I need to make sure you all know that the NBA playoffs are just around the corner and I don’t know about you

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Has landed some of the top recruiting prospects in the nation including offensive lineman Jordan Sean and quarterback kman mlan Corman mlan however records obtained by the USA Today sports show Prime never even had to leave campus to seal the deal with them or any others Colorado confirmed that Sanders has made no off-campus

Contacts with recruiting prospects since he was hired in December of 2022 Prime’s contract with Colorado gives him an annual budget of $200,000 to use a private air travel service for recruiting but he has not flown One Time by comparison in that same time span then Michigan coach Jim

Harbor took 145 off-campus trips and Steve sarkeesian a guest on this show just this past Monday had 128 trips according to data obtained by USA Today sports what you complaining about I don’t know how much truth there is to this story this my brother right here Prime let’s be very very clear if

You Colorado you should be thankful the brother sitting up there and got one of the top recruiting classes and he ain’t spend a dime of your money what’s the problem now in case y’all haven’t noticed he has had health issues particularly with his feet it is a challenge for him to travel it

Is a challenge for him to be on the move like that and on top of it all if you got cats willing to come to him as opposed to him having to go to them and it’s putting him in a position to get top-notch athletes to come there and I

Understand some people might debate that but the bottom line is they were better last year than they were the year before when they went 1 and 11 and the coach was five and he had to inherit the program Prime Time Deion Sanders look at that schedule look at what he’s got look

At got Nebraska week two on the road Colorado State week three on the road bayor UCF Kansas State University Arizona Cincinnati Texas Tech Utah Kansas Oklahoma State we get what’s going on here first season to the Big 12 and I get more might be required but let’s not knock the brother the

Brother’s doing his job just because he ain’t traveling for visits don’t mean he ain’t doing a job those other coaches had to go travel he’s Prime he can or he could choose not to sorry let me move on to another subject because this brother’s hilarious okay I want to

Quickly give some love to my friend and colleague Shannon Shaw all right along with ooo who have a hilarious show called night cap okay with an and oo on YouTube that has 1.14 million subscribers that’s 1.14 million subscribers I’m incredibly proud of those brothers and every time I watch

Them and the things they say they have me rolling and it’s not just oo and Shannon it’s also Gilbert Arenas by the way give them all love major props horizon horizon TI lifts all boats y’all ain’t nobody hating ain’t nothing but love but I got to show y’all some stuff

Right I have to show y’all this I even have to call Shannon and let him know I was going to troll him about this one take a look at this clip where Shannon sharp names the top four Foods he loved to eat as a kid look at this I would go squirrel

One raccoon two rabbit three Turtle 4 as pet no to eat hell no D oh I would take a raccoon right now there are certain times that I’m on the air with Shannon and this brother it’s Shannon sharp with his one line I swear to y’all he should be a damn

Comedian he is hilarious okay I mean the the stuff that he says the other day Stephen remember the other day on first take he looked at me and he said Stephen A I I’m just G to say she’s on the market she’s on the market if if if

She’s got a Chanel bag and she’s driving a Bugatti and she’s living in a mansion and blah blah blah but she’s on the market what does that tell you Stephen A and I said yo that means somebody don’t want it it don’t mean I shouldn’t what you talking about that was my comeback

To him but these are the kind of analogies he brings up and then he brings up the fried squirrels and I called them and I called them an hour ago and do y’all know what Shannon sharp said to me y’all do you know what Shannon sharp said to me Stephen A you

Don’t know what you missing you don’t know what you missing fried squirrels the black Hulk is eating squirrels he might have said that list is top four as a kid if you watch the video damn it he talking about now he ain’t talking about no damn kid when he

Was a kid that was decades ago he talk about that man talk about and then he said to you know what else he said to me y’all he said to me man we got to get you out of the city you don’t know what you missing you that that New York stuff

That City crap you got to come down South we got to show you what real food is like Food I did eat rabbit before that was all right go before that was all right but squirrels raccoons I run from raccoons I flip up my garbage can and run before I run back to make sure d a going to pop out I ain’t messing with no

Damn raccoon and why the H why the hell would I think about eating a turtle only thing I know about a turtle they stick their head under their shell to protect themselves you got to flip them over you want to get at them I don’t want no Turtle I want no raccoon

And I damn sure don’t want a squirrel but I ain’t Shannon I never will be that brother different but he’s still my brother no doubt about it moving on the Lakers and Warriors are playing Saturday night in the battle for the bottom of the Western Conference the

Lakers are fresh off getting swept in their four game season series against the Sacramento Kings where Anthony Davis once again was dominated by Dem sabonis who had another triple double ladies and gentlemen sabonis is now 10-0 versus Anthony Davis and the Lakers as for the Warriors the team said Steph Curry is

Making quote unquote good progress with the ankle injury suffered last week against the Chicago Bulls he’s been cleared to resume on court workouts and will be practicing ahead of Tomorrow Showdown against the Los Angeles Lakers nla I’ll actually be at that game courtesy of NBA Countdown on ABC make

Sure you don’t miss but here’s the deal Shannon sharp and others have been talking a lot about the Lakers and what our expectations for them should be they’re the 10th seed in the Western Conference ladies and gentlemen they’re in last place the last spot for the playing tournament yeah they could make

A run they’re big they’ve got LeBron they’ve got Anthony Davis the playoffs is always a new season a new day but in the end when you look at the powers in the west you look at Sacramento you look at Dallas you look at Denver who I think

Is going to get the number one seed you’re looking at Minnesota calll Anthony tal will be back before the play by the playoffs you’ve got Oklahoma City who got some young thorough breads on their squad you’ve got Phoenix with KD Devin Booker and Bradley Bill assuming they’re going to be healthy for the

Playoffs you look at Golden State you can’t sarily dismiss them with Steph Curry on the court because of their shooting prowers and their ability to play together and how they know how what it takes to win a championship all of those things come into the equation you

Look at the Los Angeles Lakers and they just look like an average team and that’s a different subject for another day what’s the subject for now is that LeBron James has been trying a gift WP and hand the number one responsibility for the franchise to Anthony Davis it’s

Bad enough yic gets the best of him when you know Denver will be standing in your way when all is said and done it’s another thing entirely for damont sabonis to have 10 games against Anthony Davis in his career and has never lost once I mean danthony Davis keep allowing

This stuff to happen we might have to revisit him top being on that top 75 list we might have to revisit that I’m just saying before we go to break I want to say this I want to transition to another subject and I just feel like sitting

Here because that’s what I want to do in my own damn Studio I want to move on to Isaiah Thomas Hall of Famer Isaiah Thomas two-time NBA champion Isaiah th Isaiah Thomas that dude from the bad boy Pistons he made headlines this week when he appeared on the Draymond Green

Show Thomas says he wants a public apology from the one and only Michael Jordan for calling him a quote in quote on the docu series The Last Dance Isaiah Thomas reaffirmed that he is not planning to forgive Jordan anytime soon where is your relationship at today

And and is that salvageable D no not salvageable this dude got on National Television International television and call me an somebody who’s been really good to him and until he apologizes on International television we Ain no conversation you can’t you can’t apologize and have a private dinner when you didn’t embarrass

Me publicly if you didn’t mean it say it publicly now if you meant it let it stand I’m good with that ladies and Gentlemen Isaiah Thomas is a friend I love him dearly always have always will we go back decades I got a lot of love for my brother Michael Jordan as well so I’m down the middle on this simply giving you the facts as I know them to be Michael Jordan doesn’t give a

Damn he doesn’t care if he ever speaks to Isaiah Thomas in life again he’s not fond of him period Michael Jordan feels the way that he feels about Isaiah Thomas dating back to their competitive days when Jordan was on a come up as a member of the Chicago Bulls

And Isaiah Thomas was winning championships competing for championships fing off Boston and La before ultimately capturing back-to- back titles in the late 80s Jordan has never nor will ever get over it some of the stuff that transpired in his mind it is what it is he’s not going to like Bill lambir

He tolerated Robin because he needed Robin to ultimately help him win a three peat the second go round in Chicago in the late 90s but Jordan is just not that fond of Isaiah Thomas whether it’s Justified or not is for them to discuss as it pertains to Isaiah Thomas here’s

What he has to understand I love the quote that Isaiah Thomas gave Draymond Green I’m actually proud of my man for giving that quote you know why because I believe Isaiah cared too much once his plan days were over and he was ultimately going to become a part

Owner and ultimately going to become a coach and ultimately going to become a president of basketball operations along with a bevy of other things that Isaiah Thomas does because he’s absolutely positively brilliant as a businessman and he’s always got opportunities and he’s always making things happen I personally felt that Isaiah Thomas can’t

To damn much about what Jordan or somebody else said if somebody don’t like you or somebody considers you a hell with them they ain’t making anything more difficult for your life that’s just one less person to wonder about you know where they standing you move on in my

Opinion that wasn’t always Isaiah Thomas he actually cared and it actually hurt him a great deal when Jordan said he was an in the last day danf docu series when in my opinion it should have neither been a surprise nor should it have been anything he cared about because everyone knows that Isaiah

Thomas is one of the greatest players and the greatest point guards in the history of basketball and everybody knows Jordan is one of if not the greatest who has ever lived both of them are universally respected both of them belong in the same room in the Hall of

Fame there’s an elevated room there’s levels there might be a Hall of Fame building but there’s a third floor second floor third floor third floor second floor first floor and the highest floor that Michael Jordan would be in that LeBron James would be in that Kobe Bryant would be in that Shaquille O’Neal

Would be in that Kareem Abdu Jabar would be in that Tim Duncan would be in that Larry Bird would be in that Magic Johnson would be in Isaiah Thomas would be in it too we all know that Isaiah Thomas should have been on the original Dream Team we all know that

Politics played a significant role in keeping Isaiah Thomas I’m sorry was the only role that kept Isaiah Thomas off the team we know good and damn well that as great as John Stockton is and as much of a Hall of Fame player he is he had no

Business being on that team ahead of Isaiah Thomas and damn sure know Christian Leon who’s the college player of the year coming into the pros he certainly didn’t belong in a team I Isaiah Thomas politics kept Isaiah Thomas off of the original Dream Team which is the greatest team ever

Assembled in the history of basketball politics what role Jordan played in that don’t know what role Scotty P car Malone played in it don’t know was it wrong what happened to Isaiah Thomas yes but there’s no crime against people not liking other people there’s no crime against that Michael Jordan has personally told

Me that Isaiah Thomas is the second greatest point guard in the history of basketball behind Irvin Magic Johnson he has always felt that way and he will never change Isaiah Thomas has personally told me that he was grateful to Jordan forever because when he was an owner for the Toronto Raptors

As an expansion team Jordan had a came the night before and he swore that Jordan may not have come to Toronto because it was the second night of a back to back and because he might not have wanted to help Isaiah and Jordan showed up and showed Out and

Because of that Isaiah Thomas was always appreciative and respectful but in the end if people don’t get along they don’t get along and the greatest part of that video was that Isaiah Thomas said hey that’s how you feel about me stand on it until he apologizes I don’t have anything to say

To him that’s cool that’s exactly how he should have felt from day one because that’s how Jordan feels until he doesn’t that’s just the way it is lesson for all of us don’t spend energy wasted on somebody who don’t give a damn about you learn not to give a damn about them

Quick fast and in a hurry the stress that gets alleviated is quite significant up next your calls your tweets and a fact in the world of politics that you need to accept just in case you haven’t stick around last segment of the Stephen A Smith show coming your way in a

Minute welcome back to Stephen A Smith show right here over the digital Airways of YouTube before I get back to some tweets and calls and all of this stuff I got to touch on this subject right here a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece entitled the high price of

Democrats anti-trump lawfare written by Daniel heninger spoke of how most Americans believe the rule of law is better than the law of the Jungle but how that could change according to heninger the newest buzzword in politics ICS is lawfare or using the legal system as a weapon against a political opponent

Hener questions how many lawsuits Court motions and judgments against Donald Trump the Democratic party can actually Chow Down on he also Ponders about the high price the American system May pay for all of this in excess let me tell you something it was a great opinion piece I completely agree with Daniel

Heninger of the Wall Street Journal the opinion piece that he wrote in there because we’ve got to get to a point where we’re saying when’s enough’s enough Donald Trump made a very Salient point I know you don’t hear me say that often but it’s true he made a very

Salient point a couple of weeks ago or I think it was in the immediate aftermath of super Tuesday when he was talking about President Biden and he was saying you know come beat me stop trying to use the legal system in order to pull it off now obviously President Biden would say

It has nothing to do with me he’s the president of the United States he’s not the prosecution in Georgia he’s not the prosecutor in New York okay he has nothing to do with those things so he may say maybe it’s true but I find it very very difficult to believe that

Everybody on the Democratic side is innocent I mean when you look at the inordinate amount of charges that are coming Trump’s way I mean when is enough enough EEG Carrol awarded 83.3 million in a defamation suit against Trump okay by the way New York judge Arthur ezon or

Trump to pay a total of $450 million in a civil fraud trial over valuations of his net worth New York State Attorney Leticia James says if the massive bond isn’t posted she’ll seize Mr Trump’s New York buildings this is according to the article in the Wall Street Journal we

Know about what’s happening in Georgia Fulton County district attorney Fanny Willis all right regardless of her own stuff going on with her and and and and somebody else Mr Wade who’s also an attorney that she utilized to go after Trump but that’s a different subject for another day what they’ve got going on

Here right now she goes after 18 other defendants for violating the state’s racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act in connection with the 2020 presidential election the presiding judge dismissed six of the 41 counil this is all according to the article here you got Colorado Main and Illinois took various

Legal actions to ban Mr Trump from the 224 presidential ballot efforts recently blocked by a unanimous Supreme Court decision they got a 6 majority six conservatives three liberals but unanimously they blocked this effort by Colorado Maine and Illinois you got the special counsel Jack Smith going after Trump on

Trial for a set of federal charges one over possession of classified documents another for the former president’s actions the day of the 2021 Capital Riot okay that issue is still up in the air and in the meantime we’ve got a situation where a guy by the name of

Robert her a classified document special counsel investigating President Biden ultimately exercise prosecutorial discretion saying the current president isn’t exonerated but won’t be prosecuted leaving the situation involving Joe Biden to the court of public opinion ladies and gentlemen there’s so much to get into I’m not going to do it I’m

Going to Simply say this Trump is kicking the Democrats you know what 91 charges four indictments 91 counts against him he’s been impeached twice and he still ran away with the GOP nomination it was a cakewalk DeSantis couldn’t beat him Christie couldn’t beat him Nikki Haley couldn’t beat him V ramas swan couldn’t

Beat him they can’t touch him and you still we’re still waiting for him to go to jail we’re still waiting for him because supposedly he’s done so much Russian collusion remember all of that we’re still waiting for the we’re still waiting for the guilty verdict we’re still waiting for him to be

Incarcerated we’re still waiting for him to be seen in zebra stripes you can’t touch him and now he’s thrown this Salvo he said yo why don’t you come beat me stop engaging in law feir and using the legal system to push your political agenda come beat me that’s

What he did this is l i do Sports most of the time that’s the kind of language we want to hear ain’t it can you beat them or not you gonna beat them four different polls show that Joe Biden is trailing that Trump is gaining momentum you can look at the right and

Talk about their commitment to Biden’s cognitive decline narrative the fact of the matter is in half of America’s eyes Trump is seen as damn near a criminal and he’s still collecting more campaign dollars and more votes he is the GOP nominee I believe it’s his daughter-in-law that’s about to be the

Head of the Republican National Committee if she isn’t already are you going to stop him or not this article is a very profound one the high price of Democrats anti-trump lawfare because when the legal system is utilized this way and people see you getting away with trying to cause all of

This Ruckus towards him as opposed to Simply beating him at the polls that gives them additional F to question the legal system and once they do that it gives them a significant license to be Lawless and to engage in lawlessness which will explain some of the Mayhem

And the nonsense we’ve been seeing in the street of America that would have never been tolerated even as late and as recently as Barack Obama being in office or George W bush for that matter or Bill Clinton for that matter the nonsense that we’re seeing in the streets

Today easily could be attributed to a level of lawlessness that people don’t care about committing because they’re seeing our politicians manipulate the system in such a way that they don’t like it because it reminds them of things they’ve always felt about our government to begin with which is by the way what

Makes Trump sound like he had a lot of sense when he was comparing himself to the plight of black folks even though we know better anybody black knows that ain’t a problem Trump had but he talked about being a victim he talked about the system being rigged against him he

Talked about the powers that be wielding and influencing a level of power just to make him uncomfortable for their own bidding as opposed to it being legitimate and you know what his ultimate argument is the GOP nomination because he if if he is all of these

Things why should he be allowed to be the GOP nominee he’s going to use that and say I must be innocent it’s them it’s not me and at least 74 million people based on the num stemming from the 2020 election are going to side with him what about the 81 plus million that

Once sided with Biden you sure they don’t show up to help him beat Trump with the way things are on the streets of America right now I don’t know I don’t know let me go to some tweets before I get on out of here for the day the

Tweets and the phone calls and then I’m going to get on out of here for the day you know I don’t like to see the tweets up fronts I see the Tweets in real time just like the rest of y’all do and I want to go to that right now so let’s go

To it okay at dignitas FN LeBron and Giannis have fortnite skins but Michael Jordan does not Stephen A how does this affect his legacy I say it doesn’t affect Michael Jordan’s legacy at all do you know why because the implication is that LeBron and Giannis are the ones who need

Fortnite skins and Michael Jordan didn’t if there was ever an argument that I can make that solidifies my Proclamation that he is the goat the greatest of all time this is the latest example they need fortnite skins but Michael Jordan didn’t that’s how it goes y’all that’s how it goes next up

Please at what is this thy land thy land daff Doom d y Dylan or say Dylan Dylan daff Doom how about that d y l n d AF t d o o m the toughest question you’ll ever answer in your story career Stephen A the Minion

Or the Bob I’mma go with the Bob looks happier got big square head on top of it all you understand looks enthused ready to embrace the challenges that come his way the minion doesn’t look too happy looks like he’s got some depression issues got a reason to question his

Enthusiasm is fervent what have you I’m going to always Veer away from somebody like that you know why cuz you ever saw that movie Silver Line in Playbook ever saw that movie and you remember when not the Stars Jennifer Lawrence Bradley Cooper not them but you remember Bradley

Cooper’s good friend his best friend that was married to the girl and he was talking about how you got to get it together you got to be more enthusiastic you got to be there for your wife you got to love her he said she brings me down man she brings me

Down that’s what this kind of look does it brings me down you don’t want people around you in your life who bring you down you want people to uplift and Inspire and instill or help instill level of fervent enthusiasm and stuff like that with you that’s what you want

That’s what you need and that is what you get from this compared to this I’m just saying next question please at Derek white Deuce is that the real Derek white for the Boston Celtics is that really him is that him because let me tell you something it is got mad

Respect for that brother and boy let me tell you this if you’re Derek white for the boss of Celtics and you are listening I want to tell you I love you bro I love you you inspire me you give me hope and you give me Faith you know

Why because as bad as my hair line is yours was worse until you cut it all off and when you cut it all off the the the the confidence to go bald like you have it’s done wonders for you my brother you look good you look good anyway assuming

That’s you but it might not be you here’s the question 2020 mver versus 2016 Chino Hills who you got 2016 Chino Hills Mount verie Lonzo and lamelo ball Eli Scott liangelo ball The Ball Brothers and anik Aang Wu okay he can play by the way Kong can play first is

Kate cam Moses Moody Caleb hon Scotty bonds Dron sharp wow but believe it or not you know what I’m going to go with I’m going to go with 2020 mon verie they have size you know they got it in Scotty barondes looking at sharp here Kade cting ham can ball he’s no

Scrub lonzo’s not a shooter nor a scorer but a prototypical point guard with damn good defense lamelo ball we know what he brings to the table D’Angelo Ball’s got some potential but I haven’t seen enough of K is no joke Eli Scott don’t know much about him um I wouldn’t be inclined

To choose Chino Hills but I’ve seen Scotty bondes I’ve seen Kate cam I’ve seen Moses Moody and I’ve seen Dron sharp I haven’t seen Caleb a I’m GNA go with 2020 mon verie okay by the way that is not the real Derek white somebody stealing his

Name but I still feel the way that I feel about it my feelings for him a true last tweet right here let’s see what you got at Oz fura it’s not the last we it’s two more says Hey Stephen A I’m getting ready for my first basketball game today

How many points do you think I’m going to drop well based on your outfit and your hereo to go to your first game with a Hao like that you got to be able to Bow you know what I’m saying I don’t know whether you’re white Hispanic or

Whatever uh but even though you’re my brother you’re my brother from another mother as opposed to one of the brothers and with a hairo like that showing up to play you got to have some game for you you rolling up with a ha do like that

I’m going to say you going to drop about 15 I’m a guess tweet me back and let me know how right I am about that okay appreciate the appreciate the Tweet last tweet right here let’s go to it at Willy p style writes one Little Debbie Snack has to go forever which one

Is it the Nutty Buddy the Zebra Cakes the oatmeal cream pies or the fudge rounds I’m going to say the Zebra Cakes I’ve seen a lot of people people like the oatmeal cream pies Nutty Buddies it’s like one of the Wafers and stuff like that you know fudge rounds

None of this is my cup of tea but the Zebra Cakes it don’t look right it just don’t I don’t trust it I trust the other three I guess that’s me TR trusting chocolate more than vanilla what can I say what can I say let’s get to the calls before

I get on out of here for the day it at 8 SAS 5303 let’s go right to it Kyle in North Carolina you’re live with Stephen A what’s up Kyle how are you I’m good how are you sir talk to me man what’s going on so I’m a junior in college right now

I uh I’m a political science major history minor I’m about to finish up um but I still have to stay in for for another year because of credits okay um I feel lost sir I you know I see all my friends they have internships lined up and everything and and I’m putting in

The work um stop right there stop right there where are you going to school at CH Hill sir I’m sorry uh UNCC Chapel Hill Chapel Hill UNC Chapel Hill so you’re a college student what year are you in Junior you’re a junior what’s your major uh political science and uh

History minor okay first of all let me tell you something right now you listening to me kle yes sir you’re in a good place because you just called in and by calling in what you’re saying is that you recognize where you’re not and where you need to be so rather than lenting

What you haven’t done appreciate the fact that you you now recognize what you need to do and you still have time you’re political science major that’s very broad there are an abundance of things that you can get yourself involved with and give yourself an opportunity to get a head start don’t

Assume that because somebody else has something and it looks like a little bit more at this particular juncture that you’re so behind the eightball that you’re a lost cause you’re not you just finish saying you work hard you just finish saying you care and you just finish saying that there are things that

You want to do but you haven’t done it yet well at least you know what you want to do you’ve got your major you know what that is you know what entail it entails so now what you do is you go about the business of making sure that

You chart down not just to memory but literally in writing what things what kind of occupations exist that tailor towards your major you go there and get a job you know what you could do Kyle you sign that off as practical experience that’s what I did in North

Carolina Winston Salem when I worked at the Winston Salem Journal newspaper I did not originally go there to get internship credits I went there to get an after school job but because it ultimately L lent itself towards what I wanted to do I was able to get the bosses to give me

Assignments and ultimately sign off on that job qualifying as as experience for an internship and lo and behold I ended up getting internship credit for it that’s what you can do Kyle you’re not finished this is not bad it’s not some reason for you to bury your head in

The sand and think that you’re finished you’re not you’re just just getting started and by you making this phone call and talking about what ILS you and what’s bothering you that means you have an idea of what you want to do my brother you’re you’re on time now go get

It now go get it you heard me Kyle I appreciate you sir all right thank you very much call back I want to check on you I want you to call me at least once a month I want to check on you and see how you doing all right yes sir thank

You again take care buddy all right Anthony you’re live with step what’s going on man how you doing I’m well how are you doing all right what’s going on I got a question about the 14 uh team playoff that’s being uh proposed uh so in my mind right it’s a way to

Kind of coddle the the Big 12 in the ACC by giving them to automatic teams uh in most years you’re talking about college football right yes sir I will say this to you we don’t need to get into the Weeds about this the fact that

They’re about to go to a 12 team player personally I would prefer 16 to 20 but you crawl before you walk at the end of the day if you listen to my show this past Monday when coach un of Texas longor and steam sarkeesian came on my

Show one of the things he pointed out that was very profound he said unlike times in the past he said we can afford a loss now early in the season and we still have a chance to make it because what’s the chances that if if you’re an

Elite team you’re not going to be considered one of the top 12 teams in the country so you’re going to see less of those folks left out people can gripe all they want to but if you ain’t considered one of the top 15 teams in

The nation or one of the top 13 or 12 teams in the nation ain’t nobody feeling sorry for you now when you five or six and you left out of the mix that’s a huge debate right with a lot of disappointment as Florida State can attest to this past season but for the

Most part if you 13th 14th 15th to 20 if anyin nobody feeling sorry for you you because they know that if you’re good enough you’ll stand out and they’ll know who the top 12 teams in the nation truly truly are so you can’t fret over 14 and wondering they did it for this

Conference or they’re trying to do this for that conference what you got to be concerned about is the fact that we’re not going to be in a position where we get to argue emphatically to the degree that we have in years past about teams being left out because nobody’s going to

Feel sorry for a team that’s in the middle of the pack if you can’t make the top 12 definitive ly you’re not getting sympathy from anybody else and that is what everybody’s going to look at Anthony all right appreciate the call Aaron in Boston you’re live with Stephen

A what’s up Aaron how’s it going Stephen how are you uh so Jason just had a really bad game against Denver as you know you talked about it ONN yep um my question is do you find that Jason’s lackluster performance against Denver is connected in a way to how he performed

In the NBA finals against Golden State well yes in this one sense Aaron that was a big game and it was a big game although it was the regular season because I had Jason Tatum at the top of my list for League MVP but obviously Anthony Edwards in Minnesota Shay gilis Alexander in

Oklahoma City Nico yic Denver knocking at the door chirping at the door and Denver had already come to Boston and beat you one 2 to 100 weeks earlier so knowing that that was a big game that all eyes were on you and that was the time you pick to come up small when

You’ve been having an MVP caliber season tells us something it gives us C to PA as to whether or not you’re ready for the moment I believe in Jason Tatum and I’m going to continue to believe in him I picked Boston to win the chip at the

Beginning of this season I’m not so sure about that now but I’m still picking them to go to the finals probably against Denver which kind of depresses me cuz I don’t want to be a Denver in June personally that damn altitude giving me a stuffy nose and sinus

Headaches I would prefer not to do that I’d prefer to be in Southern California but the Lakers and the Clippers ain’t gonna get me there so I got to just deal with that reality but the point is joic is coming and we already know what he does when he

Arrives we know that to some degree about jayen Brown who showed up in the finals years ago we don’t know that about Jason Tatum yet and that’s what we have to find out last call all right appreciate the call bod in Austin Texas I was just down

There what’s going on what’s going on bod how you doing man how’s everything Hey Stephen how you doing all right talk to me all right thanks for taking my call um so I’m a lifelong Cowboys fan here my condolences go ahead not sure you’re the right therapist for this

Question but um so last time Cowboys won of Super Bowl I was still in my mother’s womb and um Jerry tells us that we’re going all in this year and what do we do we signed up a washed up linebacker and Eric Kendrick we resigned a Long Snapper

And then we resigned Jordan Lewis who is a human traffic cone so my question is to you uh why shouldn’t I plug in my toaster and fill up my bathtub and jump in with that toaster because there’s always hope the fact of the matter is injuries happen um expectations are not met some

People Wilt beneath the pressure and a dead clock is right twice a day so at what some point in time the Dallas Cowboys are going to remember how to actually win games that counts now whether it’s in your lifetime or not remains to be seen whether it’s in Jerry

Jones lifetime or not is a daunting daunting task to say the least but it’s still worthy of discussion you feel me yeah I mean I can’t I can’t listen here’s the other thing too they didn’t do anything in free agency primarily because CD lamb and Dak Prescott are

Looking to be two of the highest paid if not the highest paid dudes of their position in the game so you got to take that into consideration CD lamb is sit back waiting to see what Justin Jefferson signs for and so what he can ask for you got Dak Prescott they

Talking about he’s goingon to ask for 60 million brother got two player victories in eight years and he’s in a position to get 60 million he got his brother out there chirping about how he don’t need to be a Dallas Cowboy anymore and about how the Eagles are a first class

Organization not thinking for one second about what kind of position that puts his brother in Dak Prescott unless Dak is hiding behind his brother to make those assertions which I sincerely doubt he is doing so with all of that going on and then Michael Parson’s now eligible

For a long-term deal this month all right and they’ll probably make him wait until next year in order to do that you do have other priorities if you’re Jerry Jones because those are three big names you have to address CD lamb Dak Prescott and micheles are not just anybody

You got to address that and so when you look at it from that standpoint it makes total sense why Jerry Jones may not have done much me personally considering what lack of commitment you can get away with making the running backs you can’t tell me if you’re Jerry Jones you couldn’t

Have found a way to give Derrik Henry a two-year $16 million deal knowing you needed a Bell cow at the running back spot knowing you needed that to take pressure off a deak and to have a Bonafide solidified a game now why you wouldn’t go and get Derrick

Henry is beyond me but again there’s always hope in the National Football League that’s what makes it so special and that’s what makes the 17 weeks an event got to remember that okay thanks I appreciate it we just gotta get rid of Stephen and Jerry

Appreciate it I can’t get rid of my boys I mean those are my buddies right there my li My Libra buddy Jerry Jones and Stephen Jones we getting ready to meet up and have a couple of drinks together in a couple of weeks I can’t throw them

Out with the bath water like that Jered Jun in Texas I understand how you feel sometimes but you know something it’s going to work out eventually eventually just not right now that’s it for this edition of the Stephen A SM I got to get on out of here

I’m glad y’all joined me thank you all so much for you know having me in your homes and having me on your computers your phones and everything else the Stephen A Smith show over the digital Airwaves of YouTube I aim to please I’m getting ready to enjoy my week and y’all

Make sure you do the same you hear until next time peace of love everybody I’m out