0:00

You know. The NBA playoff action is

0:02

fantastic.

0:03

It was so fantastic because I watched Anthony

0:05

Edwards in the Minnesota Timberwolves put cuffs

0:08

on.

0:08

A reigning defending NBA champion DEPN Nuggets.

0:10

I said, y'all, y'all, Minnesota

0:14

is gonna win it all.

0:17

And then I watched it Gildis Alexander and

0:20

Jayden Williams in the crew go

0:23

up against Dallas last night and

0:26

hold Luca don Chick in check.

0:28

And I said, damn, it's Minnesota,

0:31

Oklahoma City, Spnnesota,

0:34

Okahoma City.

0:36

If you love basketball, you.

0:38

Gotta love this.

0:41

I won't speak negatively about the impact that I'll

0:43

have on my social life in June, though.

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2:01

I got a lot of stuff to do before I got to travel

2:03

out of town yet again.

2:05

And there's some stuff to get into. First order of businesses

2:07

to.

2:07

Start with the Minnesota Timberwolves, who've

2:09

got the number one defense in the league and now

2:12

a four time Defensive Player of the Year award

2:14

winning in Rudy Go Bear since it was announced last

2:16

night that he had won.

2:18

Indeed, Defensive Player of the Year.

2:20

They're up to and zero in this Western Conference Simm's matchup

2:22

against the reigning defending world champion Denver

2:24

Nuggets, led by twenty two year old Anthony

2:26

Edwards, the t Wolves are ready to put the rest of the playoffs

2:29

under lock and key. And I'm not I don't believe

2:31

I'm exaggerating or engaging in ourperberly when

2:34

I say that. When you look at ja N

2:36

McDaniels, when you look at nas Reed, when

2:38

you look at Anthony Edwards, when you look at cal

2:40

Anthony Towns without Rudy go Bear on

2:42

the basketball court, because Rudy Gobert

2:45

was with us fiance who was giving

2:47

birth to their child. The

2:49

Minnesota Timberwolves

2:52

ran the Denver Nuggets out their own damn

2:54

building. They were kicking

2:56

denvers as so bad. Jamal

2:59

Murray, a class personified, a closer,

3:02

a winner, a champion, became

3:04

very very uncharacteristic, first

3:06

throwing a towel towards the officiating and then

3:08

after that literally throwing a

3:10

heating pad on the court that Carl Anthony

3:13

Towns actually stepped on. You

3:15

don't know what could have happened to him. It

3:17

is a miracle that Jamal

3:19

Murray was not suspended for tonight's

3:21

Game three. It's a miracle because he should

3:23

have been. Now, I'm not advocating for it. I'm

3:25

not wishing for it. I thought Russell Westbrook

3:28

should have gotten suspended in Game three

3:30

of the Dallas series the way that he acted. I don't

3:32

apologize for that to a damn

3:34

soul. I meant that shit I said.

3:36

I meant it. When I said it, I mean it

3:38

now.

3:39

Even though again, I didn't call the league

3:41

office to ask why he wasn't suspended

3:44

or to have him suspended. Rather, I worked

3:46

for NBA Countdown, and I had to ask

3:48

the question because I was asked to ask the question. But that's

3:50

neither him nor dead. In the case of Jamal Murray,

3:53

I didn't want this man suspended. I wanted this man

3:55

for game thing. By the way, I spoke to the League

3:57

office about his non suspension as well,

4:00

Okay, the official said, had

4:02

they seen it, he would have been immediately injected.

4:04

They would have dealt with it.

4:05

But in the after math of that, Adam Silver decided

4:07

not to suspend him.

4:08

And that's fine. That's fine.

4:11

I think that Adam Silver a great Commission,

4:13

who's done a great job, opens himself

4:15

up to criticism because you're gonna join the comparisons between

4:18

him and his predecessor of the late great David Stern,

4:20

who would have suspended Jamal Murray in a nanosecond,

4:23

and we all know that. But Adam Silver's

4:26

a bit different, and it's the playoffs,

4:28

and he doesn't want the playoffs deciding

4:30

suspension by the officials deciding the series,

4:33

even though that ain't what he did for Lebron

4:35

James when he gave Lebron and the Cleveland Cavaliers

4:37

that stimulus package known as the suspension

4:40

that Draymond Green after

4:43

Game four that series when Golden State had

4:45

gone up three to one in Cleveland and

4:48

Draymond gets suspended, and then after

4:50

that Andrew Bogan and Andrea Guadala gets hurt

4:52

during the game that Draymond was suspended, and

4:54

the Cleveland Cavaliers ultimately come back and win

4:56

the series and erase the fifty two

4:58

year old curse in the city of Leaving for his sports

5:00

franchises, they couldn't win a championship, But

5:02

I digress any end.

5:05

What it comes down to is this with Jamal Murray, He's

5:07

gonna play tonight. And you know

5:09

what, the way the Minnesota Timberwolves

5:12

looked, particularly in that first half against

5:15

the Denver Nuggets, it's almost as if

5:17

they called the league and said, don't suspend them,

5:20

let him stay on the course so we could kick his.

5:21

Ass some more. That's how ferocious

5:24

their defense was. These

5:26

brothers got height, they got sized,

5:29

they got.

5:30

They quick afoot, they're tenacious.

5:33

They go after it at every freaking

5:35

position. These

5:38

brothers in Minnesota are no joke. And

5:41

when you consider that they're led by a twenty

5:43

two year old superstar and Anthony Edwards.

5:46

When you combine that with the fact that Carl Anthony

5:48

Towns make sure he dropped twenty seven. When

5:51

you look at the nads Read and the McDaniels,

5:54

and an Alexander Walker and a Conley

5:56

junior, and these boys even

5:58

slow mow himself. Okay,

6:01

well, what he brings to the table. I could

6:04

have believed the clamps that I saw Minnesota

6:07

put down on the Deffer Nuggs. I ain't seen

6:09

defense like that in thirty years. I ain't seen defense like

6:11

that since the Chicago Bulls, led by Jordan

6:14

Robin and Pippen went after the Orlando

6:16

Magic in Game one of the Eastern Conference Finals

6:18

series, when Shaq and Nick Anderson and

6:20

Penny Hardaway and those boys were on the court

6:22

and they were damn there scared to dribble the ball

6:24

pass half court. They were that scared because Jordan

6:27

and them were in them defensively. And Nick Anderson,

6:29

who had had two steals against Jordan and

6:31

basically was perceived as being somebody that stopped

6:33

him and embarrassed him in the previous year when he

6:36

came out of retirement from baseball for the last seventeen

6:38

games in the regular season and then the postseason. You

6:40

got this guy walking around like

6:42

he had accomplished something so big.

6:44

Jordan held that brother.

6:45

The two points they won that game one, twenty one to eighty

6:47

three.

6:47

In Game one.

6:48

It was never really a series from then on, and we all

6:50

knew it. I

6:52

haven't seen defense played on an

6:54

NBA team like

6:57

that until the Minnesota Timberwolves

6:59

first had performance in.

7:00

Game two against Denver. I

7:04

couldn't believe what I was seeing.

7:05

And that's why I'm of the mindset, like, Yo, these

7:09

brothers might win it all. They

7:12

might win it all because

7:14

guess what, I don't see Denver coming back from

7:16

the series.

7:18

And then when you look at Dallas.

7:20

Against Okac, OKC

7:23

is gifted, no doubt, with young Thoroughbreds

7:25

and what have you, but not girth size.

7:27

Okay should have

7:29

it and look like they're built like me.

7:32

And then you got Dallas

7:36

and Kyrie is spectacular and we know that he

7:38

gonna get his.

7:41

But Luca got that guy lou.

7:43

Doort on him who's one of the

7:45

elite perimeterive defenders in the game. And

7:49

they're young, and they're tenacious

7:52

and they go after it. They were the number

7:54

one seed, ladies and gentlemen, which

7:56

brings me to my next subject. That's why Shay gilg

7:58

Just Alexander should

8:01

be announced tonight as the league MVP.

8:04

I'm not saying that will happen at the time

8:06

of this post, and we don't know, but

8:08

I'm telling you right now, Shay Gilgers Alexander

8:11

got my vote. I have a vote, and I gave

8:13

Shay Gilger Just Alexander my vote for League MVP.

8:15

Honus fifty plus

8:17

games, scoring thirty or more, averaging

8:20

over twenty five game, second

8:23

youngest team

8:25

in the league, and you the number one

8:27

seed in the Western Conference. I'm

8:30

sorry, I'm sorry.

8:33

Who saw that coming? I

8:36

know that Jalen Williams.

8:37

Who I love this brother caund ball, He's special.

8:39

I love watching him play. I

8:41

know he could ball.

8:43

I get that.

8:45

And they got a host of cats on this squad who

8:48

can ball as well. And Cheded Holmgren is gonna be a

8:50

star in this league.

8:50

Brother could play. He's seven foot with.

8:52

A j He dropped

8:54

three pointers, he finishes on the

8:56

fast breaks, he blocks shots.

9:01

Oklahoma City got a chance. But

9:05

I just think when you look at

9:07

Shay Gil Just Alexander, he's a notch

9:09

above most

9:12

and what he has done. I

9:14

can't say enough. Now, somebody fooled

9:16

me, somebody fooled other people with the fake account talking

9:18

about shake Gil Just Alexander posted they

9:21

traded me along with Thenilo Gallinari

9:24

and six picks for Paul

9:26

George. Where that get you? That was not shake Gil Just

9:28

Alexander. That was a fake account. You

9:30

don't see news circulating in social media

9:32

about me or somebody fools Stephen Ay.

9:34

I you know, I didn't read it.

9:37

I saw it on the air, and when

9:39

I saw it on the air, I assumed they had double check.

9:41

So it's no big deal, no big deal, fake

9:43

burn your account, knock yourself out. I hope it

9:45

makes you feel good your fake ass, okay,

9:49

but it's neither here nor there. It ain't making no noise

9:52

any and shake gilg just Alexander kim

9:54

Ball did a number one

9:56

seed, and I think for league

9:58

MVP on it is considering this you in the absence

10:00

of expectations and ultimately the mountain and he

10:02

climbed to help his team get to the number one seed in the

10:04

Western Conference says a lot.

10:08

And he got he got my vote. Let's

10:10

see what happens tonight.

10:11

Let me transition real quick

10:13

to the Indiana Pacers versus

10:15

the New York Knicks.

10:16

Now, I picked the New York Knicks to win this series one day.

10:18

I said seven, which was Friday, And I came on

10:20

Monday and I said possibly six. Now

10:22

I don't even know if I'm gonna pick the Knicks to win this series. I'm

10:24

gonna hope, I'm gonna pray, I'm gonna

10:26

pray beyond prayer. But Mitchell Robinson is

10:28

out. He's

10:32

out with an ankle injury, and

10:34

he's out for the rest of the series. So what does that

10:36

mean exactly? That means that the New York

10:39

Knicks don't have Julius Render. That means that the New York

10:41

Knicks don't have Mitchell Robinson, and that

10:43

means the New York Knicks squad has

10:46

to rely on Isaiah Hartenstein

10:50

and some dude named Precious as

10:52

in precious Ature. Now

10:55

me personally, I think their pressure should have been playing

10:58

and he should it have been getting more minutes. Think

11:00

he's mobile. I think he's got some skill sets. I don't think

11:02

he's as clumsy as Mitchell Robinson. He's not the rebound

11:04

and the shot blocker that Mitchell Robinson is, but

11:06

he is better with his footwork. He

11:09

does seem a bit more coordinated, and I

11:11

think that he can help this team. The

11:14

question is if you're the New York Knicks.

11:17

This was my reservation about Tom Thibodeaux.

11:20

You don't use your bench. And because you

11:22

don't use your bench, now Thatt, it's time

11:24

to use him.

11:25

What we gonna do.

11:26

Indiana goes about ten deep and

11:29

they're the leading offense in the NBA, and

11:32

they're the only team in the NBA that shot fifty percent

11:34

or better from the field and

11:37

their second in net rating. The

11:40

Indiana Pacers are no joke. They

11:43

can score on anybody, and they damn shore scoring

11:45

on the New York next the other night.

11:46

I'm very worried about the New York Knicks.

11:48

Brunton can only do but so much, and

11:50

they're not gonna stop Brunton because he's just on

11:52

a tear. So they're gonna

11:55

try to key in better on og naob Done, you

11:57

know, Dante DiVincenzo, and obviously

11:59

Josh Hart gotta find a way to keep him.

12:01

Off the boards.

12:01

My issue is is that the New York Knicks are only

12:04

human. They're gonna get worn down. And when you got

12:06

these bodies falling by the wayside, what the

12:08

hell is supposed to happen?

12:09

How many bodies.

12:11

Do you have available to you to offset

12:13

what Indiana's gonna throw at you.

12:15

I'm worried about it. I am, I truly.

12:16

Truly am, and something's

12:19

got to be done about that. I'm still

12:21

gonna pick the New York Knicks to win the night. I'm not gonna

12:23

pick them to lose tonight, even though I'm very worried about

12:25

it. But I think that Garden Crowd could

12:27

galvanize them yet again. But now I can

12:29

see this series going seven games. If that, I

12:31

can see Indiana winning. But I'm still not gonna jump off

12:33

the Nick bandwagon. I'm just confessing that I'm worried.

12:39

That's all because

12:41

the injuries. If Julius Rando and

12:43

mister Robinson were not hurt, New

12:45

York Knicks will be a sure five bet to get

12:47

to the conference finals.

12:49

But now that this has happened, I'm worried. So

12:53

I just want to say that. But

12:55

I'm still picking the next tonight.

12:57

Mitch Robinson out the next six to eight weeks due to that

12:59

Nagar thank Go injury.

13:00

Okay, I didn't see that coming.

13:02

I thought he was healed, damn

13:06

it.

13:08

Moving on, before

13:12

we go to break, I

13:14

want to focus on the ladies of the WNBA

13:16

for a second and a long overdue milestone

13:20

for that league. The WNBA announced

13:23

yesterday they planned to commit fifty million

13:25

dollars over the next two seasons so players

13:27

can fly on charted planes. The

13:30

league faced the backlash on social media

13:32

when Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark and

13:34

the team was seen walking through a Dallas airport

13:36

headed to a commercial flight. The

13:39

move addresses years of safety concerns

13:41

for.

13:41

The league and their players. Let

13:44

me tell you something.

13:48

I'm gonna say this on

13:51

behalf of Caitlyn Clark. I

13:55

need any females out

13:58

there who

14:00

are fans of the WNBA, who

14:04

are fans of WNBA players,

14:06

who are critical of Caitlin

14:09

Clark in any way to stand

14:11

down.

14:13

Chill out. You

14:16

need to hug that girl when you see her.

14:19

You need to embrace her.

14:22

You need to compete like hell to go

14:24

up against the taker down on the basketball

14:26

court. That's fine, which I believe that Diana Tarassis

14:29

and the Asia Wilson's and others of the world will

14:31

gladly do. But

14:34

what you don't need to do is look

14:36

at this girl with a spec of resentment when

14:39

it comes to what she's doing for the WNBA.

14:41

I know it made news the other day when her game

14:43

was aired, and Andrew Reese was in Chicago,

14:46

and the only reason we saw their game is because it

14:48

was videoed by a fan, which

14:50

is egregious because over

14:52

eight hundred thousand people watch that, which means

14:54

there's an audience out there that wanted to see Angrew rees

14:56

too.

14:56

What the hell is up with the WNBA? How do

14:59

you let that happen?

15:00

How do you let it so Caitlyn Clark could

15:02

be seen and Angel Reese know why anybody

15:04

else could be seeing?

15:05

What the hell is that about? Different subject

15:07

for another day. Here's

15:09

the subject for today.

15:11

Caitlyn Clark got

15:16

a multi million dollar deal from Nike. Caitlyn

15:20

Clark's got nil deals.

15:25

Well before she did anyway, Now

15:27

she's pro so she just got

15:29

deals. Plus

15:32

she's getting the salary. She

15:34

is box office, y'all.

15:36

And it's not about the fact that y'all are not. That's

15:38

not the subject for today. The subject for today

15:41

is how Caitlyn Clark got stuff going

15:43

on for herself. But

15:45

in her very first press conference she brought up

15:47

the fact that they had to fly commercial and the next

15:50

damn day, fifty million was committed to

15:52

the players.

15:53

Who you think has something to do with that? It's

15:55

Kaitlyn Clark.

15:57

She could have been self fish,

16:00

she was selfless. She could have been all about

16:02

herself. She was about everybody, not

16:06

just herself. The

16:08

WNBA was preceded by the nc

16:10

DOUBLEA. Remember that girl that took a video years

16:13

go where the men had this big ass

16:15

weight room or was it USA? I only know it was the NCAA

16:17

or USA basketball. But the men had this big

16:20

weight room area facility designated

16:22

for them, and the women just

16:24

had one little room with one piece of barber

16:27

or dark dumbbells. What

16:29

the hell was that? And it was videotaped. It was egregious,

16:31

it was embarrassing. It had

16:34

people bringing up Title nine, an

16:36

equal and equitable treatment for women. Well,

16:39

guess who damned their equal to

16:41

playing field with one sound bite.

16:42

That was Caitlyn Clark.

16:44

After years and years of existence by the WNBA,

16:47

After all of these years of these ladies

16:49

flying commercial, having to go through

16:51

security, having to mingle even

16:54

when they didn't want to, with personnel,

16:56

with folks in the airports, and all of this other

16:58

stuff, Caitlyn Clark next all of

17:00

that said, we find

17:02

commercial walking through the Dallas Airport

17:05

and stuff like that getting spotted.

17:06

Come on, y'all, she

17:08

spoke up.

17:11

She didn't just speak about change, She

17:13

spoke about the need for change. And she was

17:15

courageous enough to come in before she ever

17:18

took a damn jump shot on a pro level.

17:20

I adn't talking about no damn preseason, and

17:23

she spoke up, and that's

17:25

gonna benefit all the ladies in the WNBA.

17:27

She is not somebody to be resented. She is somebody

17:29

to be respected and appreciated for the position. And

17:31

she took in what she was willing to publicize.

17:34

Now going to court and try to kick her ass, there's

17:36

nothing wrong with that because she's gonna try to kick yours.

17:41

But before the game, you respect that woman. After

17:44

the game, you respect that woman. And

17:46

we can't get caught up in the same old bullshit everybody

17:49

well I mean now, I

17:52

mean the sisters, And if

17:54

she were black, they wouldn't have done it. That's true,

17:56

and

17:59

Andrew reasons a black woman who's

18:01

a national champion, who beat Caitlyn

18:03

Clark to win the national championship, and all by the

18:05

way before they lost to the final four this time around. The

18:08

point is, or the lead day that rather, the

18:10

point is we're

18:15

gonna always have to deal with that as black people.

18:19

That don't mean we shun

18:22

given appreciation and respect to

18:25

white individuals who speak up

18:27

on behalf of everybody.

18:30

For the better men of the whole. That's

18:32

what Caitlyn Clark did and

18:34

we.

18:34

Should have love for her because of

18:36

it. She's already changed

18:39

the WNBA for the better. And she ain't

18:41

even play a regular season game. Yet how

18:44

many people can say that? How

18:47

many people can say that? Coming

18:51

up next time to stephen A.

18:52

Smith Show.

18:53

Did y'all hear the details of the tryst

18:56

between Donald Trump

18:59

and a film star, damn

19:01

it, porn star Stormy

19:03

Daniels.

19:06

If you didn't, I'm about to tell you

19:08

about it.

19:09

Plus, can NBA players compete in

19:11

the NFL? Can NFL players

19:13

compete in the NBA? Somebody

19:15

try to break that down. I'm

19:18

gonna try to do the same for you up next,

19:20

right here, and steven A.

19:21

Smithshell, don't go away.

19:31

Okay, everybody, you know what time it is. It's Tom

19:33

for stephen A's Weekly Picks.

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Okay.

19:35

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I'm feeling a little bit liberating, you know,

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That's right.

20:36

I'm selecting either more or less than

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20:40

In a month. Now.

20:42

You're probably looking at me and you're saying, please,

20:44

what the hell is he talking about? First of all, that receiving

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headline needs all the help in the world that they can get.

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I'll tell you I'm not a shame. I'm going to hareclub for men.

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I'm not ashamed to tell you I don't give a damn what it

20:52

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20:56

Ain't got no.

20:56

Shame in my game when it comes to sun like that, you

20:59

understand.

21:00

And for you ladies out there, they might have something to say.

21:02

Excuse me, y'all do a lot of stuff these days to nobody

21:04

say nothing but y'all.

21:05

Nobody say nothing but y'all.

21:07

So how come I can't I can't do that?

21:09

Okay?

21:10

How come I can in his How come I ainker can in

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Bellis? How come I can't improve upon.

21:16

My undeniably already good looks.

21:18

Why can't I do that? I'd say I can,

21:20

and I'm gonna try.

21:22

You gotta look at it this way.

21:25

You're not being complacent. You're not standing

21:27

still. You're not saying I have arrived. I don't

21:29

need to do anything. No, you take it seriously.

21:32

That's why you get more than

21:34

one and a half here cuts a month, and you kidding me?

21:37

If I could do it, I do at least two three here cuts

21:39

a week. It's automatically

21:42

once a week, sometimes

21:44

twice, so it's definitely

21:46

more than one and a half here cuts a month, right,

21:48

if you got in here on your head, that's

21:50

what you do. Even bald people shave

21:53

more than one and a half times a month. So you

21:55

know the answer to this question is more, more

21:57

more. We're

22:00

accustomed doing that because it's prospects. That's

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the way it goes.

22:07

Welcome back to stephen A. Smith Show. Right here over the digital

22:09

airwaves of YouTube. Let's get to a couple of

22:11

quick hitters. Please, Denver Nuggets

22:13

start.

22:14

Jamal Murray again, will not

22:16

be suspended for Game three or this series against the Timberwolves.

22:18

My apologies the top show. I thought they were gonna be playing

22:20

the night they're playing Friday. My apologies

22:23

the Denver Nuggets and the Minnesota

22:25

Timberwolves. Game three will be Friday night, not

22:27

tonight. So let me get that out of the.

22:29

Way, right.

22:29

Murray was caught on camera toss and the towers

22:31

I explained earlier, and heating pad in the direction

22:33

of official Mark Davis in the second quarter

22:35

of Monday's game too. He's just lucky he didn't get suspended.

22:38

He's just lucky because he should have been. He really,

22:40

really really should have been. And if I'm

22:43

Adam Silver, I gotta really start

22:45

thinking about my image just a little bit more. I know you're

22:47

the commissioner. You do a great, great job, but

22:49

you got a lot of people that are looking at the commissioner and thinking

22:51

he's a bit too player friendly at times,

22:54

which is.

22:54

Why we're seeing some of the things that we've seen.

22:56

People are bringing up Patrick Beverley asking

22:58

why hasn't he been suspended as yet. I

23:00

say it is because he's knocked out of the playoffs. He's out

23:02

for the rest of the season and he doesn't get to come

23:05

back until next season, and at that time

23:07

they can hand down the suspension.

23:08

That would be me.

23:09

That's how I'm thinking about it. But people do

23:11

make a legitimate argument when they say why you can't

23:13

announce it now? Let them knowing on in certain

23:15

terms is the way it's going to be. So

23:18

that's something to think about moving forward. Staying

23:22

in the West with a Thunder had no problems

23:24

beating the Mavericks in game one of the other Western Conference

23:26

Finals shots a matchup Shae

23:28

gilg Alexander Tropp twenty nine points in

23:30

Dallas enroute to a one to seventeen ninety five

23:32

victory over ok See. The man the Thunder

23:35

managed to contain Luka Dancik and Kyrie Irving,

23:37

who had just thirty nine points combined. I'm not gonna

23:39

put that on Kyrie Irvan. Luca didn't have a great game,

23:42

so we got to get that out the way. Here's

23:44

the other thing that we want to say real quickly. I

23:46

understand Jokic is phenomenal.

23:49

He can't jump onto a curve and you still can't stop

23:52

him. He's absolutely phenomenal, but

23:55

he hasn't looked that way these first two games.

23:57

Have you seen what Rudy gobier?

23:59

I mean, I know they had thirty two points, but it wasn't on

24:01

the regular same efficiency that he usually

24:03

has. And then in game two he was even worse. Without

24:05

Ruty go be on the floor. We'll call Anthony Towns

24:08

guarding him. Have you seen this? Do you

24:10

see what's going on? Because I'm watching

24:12

he don't look like that league MVP. Dude,

24:15

that's number one, number two. They

24:17

were a three seed. Oklahoma

24:21

City was the one seed, So why would

24:23

Jokis get the MVP? Not over Shae Gilg

24:25

just Alexander this year? I don't understand that number

24:28

three. Luka Doncik, you were a fifth seed. And

24:30

even though you were terrific damn near averaging a triple

24:33

double thirty five point triple double this season,

24:35

defense ain't your forte. I

24:39

mean, do you play on both ends of the floor. Luca's

24:43

great offensively, defensively

24:45

he could be had. I'm

24:47

looking at Shay gilg just Alexander. Ladies and gentlemen, you got

24:49

to give him his props. I think he should be a League

24:52

MVP, but we'll see. Jalen Brunston is also a top

24:54

five candidy for League MVP. Honos to

24:56

be very very clear about that. Anthony Edwards should

24:59

be a League MVP candidate

25:01

as well. So I just wanted

25:03

to say that. Now let me get to what I

25:05

really really wanted to talk about in this particular segment.

25:07

This is NBA players versus NFL players.

25:10

To touch on this subject that has

25:13

the Internet buzzing. By the way, let's

25:15

get right into it. ESPN analysts and former

25:17

NBA player Austin Rivers says he could

25:19

take thirty NBA players right now and throw

25:21

them into the NFL, and says, on the

25:23

flip side, you can't go the other way and take thirty

25:26

NFL players and.

25:27

Have them compete in the NBA.

25:29

But before I give my take, let me show you a list

25:31

of former NFL players that played college basketball.

25:34

That includes Hall of.

25:35

Famers Antonio Gates, Tony Gonzales,

25:38

Julius Peppers, and of course

25:40

the one and only t O Terrell Owens. As

25:43

for NBA players with football ties mainly

25:45

in high school, that list includes Allen Iverson, Lebron

25:47

James, Nate Robinson, and of course Charlie

25:49

Ward who won the Heisman

25:52

at Florida State. I'm

25:54

going to say this about

25:56

what.

25:58

Austin Rivers had to say.

26:00

I can't side with him on that now.

26:03

JJ Watt clapped right back at them, saying,

26:05

you're not playing both right now? You

26:08

know, so why don't you keep your mouth shut? On paraphrasing,

26:10

but that's basically what he said. Here's

26:13

what I'm gonna tell you.

26:16

Football is such a physical sport.

26:19

I understand those offensive linemen

26:21

in there, three hundred and thirty plus pounds with pot

26:23

bellies. I understand what

26:25

you're saying about them, even though there's a

26:27

skill set that comes with their position. Bottom

26:29

line is they at the type of dudes that lead you to believe

26:32

they could play basketball. But free

26:34

safeties, cornerbacks, hell

26:39

strong safeties, wide receivers, running backs.

26:43

You sure they can't play basketball? You

26:45

sure you can't find thirty of them? I

26:48

think so, I gotta give

26:50

props michaeh Passes and you know the

26:53

bully that he is and beating up on every

26:55

man, woman and child during the NBA All Star

26:57

weekend, you know where he had ringers on a head

27:00

and Pooka Nikoua. I mean,

27:02

I couldn't believe what they were doing, just running

27:04

over women.

27:05

They're care they health, they they out there.

27:07

But those two brothers could play,

27:10

Okay, CJ

27:13

with the Texans, he says, try he could play.

27:16

That's three right there. I

27:18

look at football players.

27:20

There's a level of punishment you're capable

27:22

of absorbing, level of durability

27:24

that kicks in. And again, if

27:26

you're all talking about somebody being a Steph Curry,

27:30

you know, or Devin Booker or

27:33

or Anthony Edwards, is somebody that's different.

27:35

You're trying to tell me some of these brothers couldn't play power

27:37

for it. You're trying to tell

27:39

me if you know they couldn't play power forward,

27:44

they couldn't play any of the forward spots or

27:46

even center in some degree with some of the girth

27:48

these brothers have on them.

27:50

You sure about that? You sure about

27:52

that?

27:54

And not only that, because

27:56

of how phenomenal these football players are

27:59

in terms of what they can absorb and deal with. I

28:01

don't know if I ever would have uttered that publicly,

28:04

y'all, y'all can't do this, y'all.

28:06

I wouldn't have done that. I

28:09

just wouldn't have done that. That. I'm

28:11

not vibing.

28:12

With with Austin

28:15

Rivers on that. I know what he's saying. This takes

28:17

more skill, meaning putting the ball

28:19

in the basketball, handling, passing skills,

28:21

the IQ that comes with it.

28:22

I get it takes I get that, But

28:24

there's a lot of brothers in the NFL that

28:26

could do it.

28:28

I actually agree with JJ Watt in that regard

28:30

when you look at the skill set and what's required. I know

28:32

it's a big debate over social media.

28:34

I don't think it should be. There's plenty of football

28:37

players that could play some basketball. There's plenty of football

28:39

players that have played basketball. I would have put

28:41

it past Trayvon Diggs somebody like that

28:43

to be able to play some ball along with

28:45

various others.

28:46

But that's just me.

28:47

Now, if you just muscle bound on and accustomer to hitting people,

28:49

that's it's a different animal. But

28:52

that's just not how I feel about it. Right you're

28:55

watching the Steven A. Smith Show over the digital airwaves

28:57

of YouTube coming out. Did you see

29:01

what porn stars Stormy

29:03

Daniels had to say about

29:06

the former President of the United

29:09

States.

29:11

Well, damn it, I did, And

29:14

I tell you something. It

29:16

is time that

29:19

I say something that

29:21

needs to be said. It

29:23

is very, very, very

29:26

important.

29:27

It is a warning.

29:30

A warning, damn

29:33

it is one that they fit for FCC airwaves

29:38

might not be fit for the digital airwave streaming

29:41

it was I don't know, but

29:44

I.

29:44

Can't sit oddly by.

29:47

And ignore my responsibility

29:50

to the public to give you this

29:52

warning.

29:55

It's necessary.

29:58

You can't miss this. It's very

30:00

important.

30:03

Stick around and I'll let you

30:05

know exactly what that is upon

30:08

my return in the second right

30:10

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31:31

it's about Donald Trump and

31:34

a woman by the name of Stormy Daniels,

31:39

the adult film star who took the witness

31:41

stand uh

31:45

this yesterday a couple of days ago in

31:48

a hush money trial against the former president.

31:52

Prosecutors allege Trump paid

31:54

dan Used to keep quiet about an alleged sexual

31:56

encounter as he ran for

31:59

president. It was running for president in twenty

32:01

sixteen. Daniel's,

32:03

by the way, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford,

32:07

went into graphic detail

32:10

about the alleged tryst and apparently

32:12

spared few details. According

32:14

to the reports, Daniel

32:17

said they met in the suite at

32:19

one of Donald Trump's resorts. She

32:22

said Trump asked

32:25

if she'd ever had any STDs or anything like that.

32:27

She went on to say she

32:29

spent Trump on the buttocks

32:33

with a rolled up newspaper. She

32:36

also says she went to the bathroom thereafter,

32:39

and upon her return, she

32:42

found Donald Trump on the.

32:44

Bed wearing boxers

32:46

shirts and a T shirt.

32:49

She said, the next thing she knew, Oh

32:52

my lord, the next thing she knew they

32:55

were having sex. What

32:58

got a condom? Now,

33:03

Ladies and gentlemen, I

33:10

gotta set up for this because

33:14

I'm trying to be there for y'all. I'm trying

33:16

to be there for y'all. I

33:20

take no pride in

33:22

giving such salacious details. I

33:25

truly don't believe it

33:27

or not. I'm sort of an oxymoronic individual

33:29

when it comes to who

33:31

I am compared to what I do as a profession, because even

33:34

though I'm a journalist, I firmly believe in minding my

33:36

own damn business on a personal level.

33:38

Your business is your business. My business is my business.

33:42

But I'm just telling y'all what she said

33:45

because it was with cameras rolling,

33:49

or at least tape recorders rolling. They

33:52

gave all the excerpts on Lawrence

33:54

o'donald on MSNBC last

33:57

night.

33:57

He let his show with the damn.

33:59

Stuff along with

34:01

with with CNN and others.

34:04

Anyway, Daniels

34:07

testified she and.

34:07

Trump kept in touch and she

34:09

would frequently put him on speakerphone and that

34:12

quote, dozens of people heard her on the phone

34:14

with him end quote. After Daniel's

34:16

testimony, Trump's defense team requested

34:18

a mistrial, which, of course,

34:21

to judge denied.

34:24

Let me help y'all

34:26

out here. I am

34:28

not here to.

34:29

Talk about

34:32

the details of that specific situation.

34:35

I'm here to talk to

34:37

the fellas. Are

34:40

you awake?

34:42

Do you not see what's happening? Do

34:46

you understand what's

34:50

at stake.

34:52

And what's being discussed and

34:54

how we've got to watch this stuff.

34:58

Now?

34:58

Stevin Ay, where you going? Stevin Ay, where you're going?

35:00

I'm gonna say it.

35:02

I'm gonna say it because

35:05

it's worth being said.

35:08

Okay, it's worth being

35:10

said.

35:11

Are you listening, your

35:15

fellas? We

35:21

gotta we gotta get it done or

35:24

they gonna talk about you.

35:28

Now. Man, you know how we are. We

35:31

got our egos.

35:34

Some might live about something, some might not. But

35:39

I'm here to tell you something right now, y'all, we

35:46

gotta get it done in

35:48

this day and age. You

35:53

got a little something instead of a lot of something.

35:56

She gonna talk about.

35:57

You,

36:00

You quick silver instead of long John silver,

36:04

she gonna talk about you. Don't

36:09

think that it's gonna be something that's

36:12

just laughed at or

36:14

laughing or somebody laughing with you. Where

36:16

they like Bernie Matt three minutes.

36:19

That's how I'm giving you. That's who the

36:21

hell I got. Oh, I don't care.

36:23

About you talking about me saying

36:26

bern him man, come for I don't give a

36:28

fuck I got

36:30

mine. You better get gews.

36:35

You don't, butter know about the time I'm through you fresh

36:37

out after luck with me. Everybody

36:40

in there talking, laughing and having

36:43

a ball. That's

36:45

fine when you're a comedian joking on stage.

36:50

You really really think that Trump was

36:52

pissed off yesterday in the courtroom

36:55

or the day before yesterday when they were talking about Trump,

36:57

You think he was pissed off just

37:00

because he was there. I'm

37:02

here to tell you right now that was probably the hardest

37:04

day of his life.

37:08

When she sat up there, it was like it really wasn't much.

37:11

I mean a paraphraser, I mean it really wasn't much.

37:14

I mean, I mean it was one

37:16

time he wanted me over and over, but I wasn't

37:18

having that.

37:20

Some of it seemed shaky on her part. You

37:25

worked for.

37:27

A particular company that was

37:30

known for engaging in safe sex. You

37:34

are a porn star. They

37:36

were a particular sponsor at that event. You

37:39

were greeting other golfers at the

37:41

holes. I

37:45

said, you were greeting golfers at the holes, meaning the

37:47

golf holes. I don't mean you were exposing them to yours.

37:49

That's not what I said. I said you were greeting the

37:51

golfers.

37:52

At the golf holes.

37:54

Okay, but

37:58

you were just went Trump. You're

38:01

a porn star, but

38:05

you were there to talk. Suddenly

38:10

you just you don't know how, but you

38:12

found yourself virtually

38:16

naked in the bed with him to

38:19

all these details.

38:20

The stuff that's shaky just

38:22

don't vibe with a porn star who

38:26

does that with a clothes off for

38:28

a living.

38:31

But that is not the subject I want

38:33

to talk to you all about. All

38:36

I wanted to say is

38:38

that if you Donald Trump, if

38:42

you any man, the

38:44

last thing in the world you want to do is

38:47

be forced to sit there in a public

38:49

setting to hear about

38:53

Dare I say how insignificant and

38:56

non impactful you were. There

39:01

are better things to do with your day than

39:04

to hear that stuff, because

39:08

it's it can be very emasculated.

39:10

Now I'm not talking about myself. I wouldn't know I

39:13

I wouldn't know anything about that. But

39:17

we now learned he does. This

39:20

is the same man that sat up there said and Marco

39:22

Rubio back in two thousand sixty he tried

39:25

he is He said that I had little

39:28

hands and was trying to imply

39:31

that I'm small in other areas.

39:33

I can tell you that's false. Believe me, believe

39:35

me.

39:35

Remember that he said it during a

39:38

presidential debate.

39:39

He cared enough then. Well,

39:43

the other day he.

39:43

Was in the courtroom and while this was being said

39:46

about him.

39:46

Not by Marco Rubio and implying

39:49

it bye by a woman he had actually

39:51

allegedly been with. He

39:56

was forced to sit there and listen and couldn't say

39:58

anything. Actually got

40:01

reprimanded by the judge because he was cursing under

40:03

his breath. To his attorneys, it's

40:06

a very rough day for Donald Trump. But

40:10

it's a warning to all of us. Try

40:13

to refrain from engaging in such activities

40:17

with anyone other than your significant other.

40:20

But whether it's with your significant other or.

40:22

Not, if

40:25

you're gonna do it, do

40:28

it right. Otherwise

40:34

she gonna talk about you. She

40:37

gonna talk about you. Remember the movie Boomerang,

40:41

Remember when Eddie Murphy was reviving Gibbings,

40:44

and remember when he got his heart broken because he was

40:46

talking about she had his feelings and stuff like that, and

40:49

she dumped him and he was all heartbroken, looking

40:51

pathetic. And remember when he

40:53

was coming into work and he was walking past

40:55

the women and all of them were laughing

40:57

at him because she had told everybody

41:03

he was embarrassed, and in the movie

41:06

he was good because

41:08

she ultimately wanted some more later

41:10

on in the.

41:11

Movie, and he was still

41:13

embarrassed. Imagine

41:17

if it's clear to you.

41:20

That you're not that you didn't

41:22

get the job done,

41:26

it's just a warning to the fella's out there. They'll

41:29

talk about you if you don't get it done.

41:33

Make sure you get it done. That's

41:36

the lesson that stephen A is

41:39

dropping on you for the day.

41:42

If you're gonna do it, do

41:45

it, do it till she's satisfied.

41:50

Just do it, Do it till she's

41:52

satisfied.

41:55

Peace and love, y'all. I'll see

41:58

Friday.