Stephen A. Smith was in for a surprising shock after the Los Angeles Lakers’ unbelievable win towards the New York Knicks on Thursday night time. As a substitute of going to the locker room, LeBron James walked over to Smith to air out his grievances in entrance of everybody attending the sport.
Whereas we couldn’t hear what both individual mentioned, James doesn’t look completely satisfied, and it has led individuals to imagine that he confronted the sports activities TV persona about his previous criticism of his son, Bronny James.
On Friday, Smith addressed the second James confronted him and confirmed that it was about Bronny.
“That was LeBron James coming as much as me, unexpectedly, I’d add. To confront me about ensuring I thoughts what I say about his son,” Smith mentioned. “That wasn’t a basketball participant confronting me. That was a mother or father. That was a father. I can’t sit right here and be offended or really feel slighted by LeBron James in any method in that regard.”
He continued, “Based mostly on a few of the feedback he had heard, or shall I say he thought he heard. He clearly took exception to a few of the issues he heard me say, and he confronted me about it.”
Smith later mentioned that if the 2 spoke in a special setting, he would “by no means” converse negatively about his son and would maintain the give attention to James. He additionally hopes that Bronny “prospers” in his skilled sports activities profession.
Naturally, this led to some amusing reactions on social media, with some individuals saying that James performed into Smith’s arms by giving him one other viral second.
Nevertheless, others praised the long run NBA Corridor of Famer for calling out Smith, who has a fame for consistently criticising gamers in at this time’s NBA, particularly James.
@Travonne wrote on X, “bron performed proper into the plan.”
@Southside_Gunn posted, “Stephen A is making an attempt to return off as a sufferer when LeBron did precisely what he was purported to do as a father….”
@roadto80pct commented, “stephen a smith tried to say at this time that he by no means mentioned something about bronny and he was speaking about lebron and that he helps and roots for bronny lol.”
This most assuredly gained’t be the primary time Smith speaks on James since he’s nonetheless the most well-liked within the NBA and is on a crew that’s contending for a championship. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see how Smith speaks about James and his son going ahead after their heated interplay went viral.