LeBron James reveals what he said during his argument with Stephen A. Smith
LeBron James gave up, and this was his argument with Stephen A. Smith.
The two recently joined the Lakers game and are getting higher and higher.
James appears to have a feud with ESPN analyst and former Cavaliers teammate Richard Jefferson.
“Once he talks about, 'I was the father begging, 'I can't.” James sounded like he said to Jefferson.
These are the comments LeBron refers to:
“I beg LeBron James as father: stop this,” Smith said on the next day's “First Take” “I beg LeBron James to Stop This.” “Stop this. We all know that Bronny James is in the NBA because of his father.”
SAS added: “How did you help him? We know he isn't ready yet. I'm talking about sympathy. … You know what these numbers mean. You know what this will do to your son, those tails that will suffer in other NBA teams, in the G League and Europe and elsewhere and the chances of them starving, those tails that will be suffered in other NBA teams, in the G League and Europe and anywhere else. Is that how you exposed your son?”
Smith himself resolved the confrontation first.
“That's not the basketball player facing me. That's the parents,” Smith said. “That's the father. In this respect, I can't sit here, get angry or make LeBron James feel lighter. He's known to be an obvious great family man and a great father who cares a lot about his son. … He obviously made exceptions to some of the things he heard, and he faced me with that.”
Smith added that he did not respond to James during the game because it wasn't the right setting.
“But if we had a conversation, I would say to LeBron James, ‘I will never say no to your son. I’m talking about you, “It means you, LeBron James,” Smith said.
“My point was because of who you were, and that's one of the first two players in basketball history, and his son was putting a lot of pressure on him. … That's when I talked about it, 'Come on, man. That's what you're introducing him. That's where I came from.”
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