Stephen A. Smith is still trying milk his months-long spat with LeBron James.
The ESPN personality Smith appeared this week on “The Pivot Podcast” and spoke about his ongoing feud with the Los Angeles Lakers star James. Smith specifically zeroed in on the infamous incident back in March when James confronted Smith on the sideline during a game over critical comments that Smith had made about James’ son Bronny (see the video here).
On “The Pivot Podcast,” Smith accused James of targeted his black critics more harshly than his white critics.
“You ever see LeBron go at a white boy?” said Smith. “Let’s call it what it is. You ever see him do that? You saw him come at me. The closest you ever came to see him doing something like that was when he called out Brian Windhorst.”
Here is the full video of Smith’s remarks.
Stephen A. Smith calls out LeBron
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“You ever see LeBron go at a white boy? Let's call it what it is. You ever see him do that? You saw him come at me.”
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Smith appeared to be referencing James’ interview on “The Pat McAfee Show” earlier this year. In that interview, the four-time NBA champion took a profane shot at Windhorst, the ESPN personality known for his longtime coverage of James, for seemingly acting like they were best friends.
As for Smith himself, it is clear that he has been loving the publicity he has been getting from his seven-month-old confrontation with James. Smith made a laughable comment weeks after the incident claiming that he was ready to swing at James and later made a separate claim about James that was so ridiculous that Smith later had to apologize.
Earlier this month, Smith also went viral for another sharp criticism of James. Now Smith is still trying to keep the fire burning by making a racially-charged accusation against the 21-time NBA All-Star.
