Stephen A. ‘Myth’ apologizes to Kyrie Irving, reveals more lies



Stephen A. Smith once implored Kyrie Irving to retire from the NBA over his refusal to take the jab. Now, with Irving on the doorstep of the NBA finals, Smith is apologizing.

In his attempt to make amends, Smith mentioned Kenny Smith’s conversation with him about Kyrie and went on to say that Kenny’s brother helped train the ESPN host in basketball and was one of the reasons he was able to secure a full ride to Winston-Salem State.

“My boy Kenny Smith and I go back decades. His brother Vincent Smith used to train me,” Smith said on his podcast. “I got a scholarship, basketball scholarship, because of Vincent Smith.”

Jason Whitlock isn’t letting it slide and believes that was an important piece of information that should’ve been included in his memoir, what Whitlock calls a work of historical fiction.

“First time I’ve heard it, and you guys know how much time I’ve spent researching Stephen A. Smith, reading his memoir, tracking and monitoring what he has said and contradicted,” Whitlock says. “I’ve been tracking all of it, but I had never heard Stephen A. Smith assert that Kenny Smith’s brother is responsible or played a role in him getting a full-ride basketball scholarship.”

Whitlock then went and refreshed his memory, going back to the two times Kenny Smith was referenced in Smith’s memoir.

“Along the way, there’s an inordinate number of friendships I’ve been blessed to have with colleagues at ESPN, as well as people who don’t work at ESPN: Snoop Dogg; Jamie Fox; Charlie Mac; Michael Ealy; Charles Barkley; Shaq; Kenny Smith,” Smith wrote in memoir.

That was the first reference.

“I just didn’t have the money (or the talent) for those travel and AAU programs, like the Gauchos or Riverside. They were reserved for the young phenoms I knew about, from Rod Strickland, Dwayne ‘Pearl’ Washington, Mark Jackson, and Kenny Smith, then on to Kenny Anderson and Lloyd ‘Sweet Pea,’” Smith wrote in his second reference.

Not one mention of Kenny Smith’s brother helping Smith get a scholarship.

“That’s not the story Stephen A. Smith told in his book. He talked about a guy, either Howard or Harold Kit, taking him out on the playground in February in New York City and then driving him down to Winston-Salem State on a Sunday to try out in front of the big house games in the middle of their basketball season. That’s the story he told in his book,” Whitlock says.


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Is LeBron James taking cues from Stephen A. Smith?



LeBron James surpassed 40,000 points in his NBA career — but instead of simply being proud of such a great feat, he chose to play the victim.

“To be quite honest with you,” LeBron said in a press conference, “everybody wanted to see me fail when I got to the league.”

LeBron then recalled a commercial he saw when he was 18 in which he was mentioned as one of the greats.

“I was like, 'What the hell?' That expectation on an 18-year-old kid like that, that was just insane to just think about it. I was watching it today, I was like I wish that on no kid and no sport, to have this type of pressure put on them, and everybody wanted to see you fail,” he continued.

“This is like a Kardashian complaining about too much exposure or the ills of social media,” Steve Kim tells Jason Whitlock.

“LeBron just does not have a grasp of reality, and it borders on being very, very dishonest,” Kim continues.

Whitlock agrees.

“He doesn’t have a grasp on reality, I’m not sure any of us would given the amount of worship that has surrounded LeBron since he was 18.”

However, his criticism isn’t aimed solely at LeBron.

“It’s a criticism of how we respond to idols — how we respond to talent, how we respond to money and fame— that people have worshiped LeBron and have told LeBron primarily what he wants to hear. And anyone that offers modicum of criticism of LeBron is some sort of racist, or sellout, or hater,” Whitlock explains.

“He certainly could be divorced from reality, not that smart, and delusional. He’s probably all those things," Whitlock laughs.


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The 1 question Stephen A. Smith REFUSES to answer



It’s no secret that Stephen A. Smith has been feuding with Zion Williamson and the New Orleans Pelicans — and now the feud has been taken to a new level.

Smith took aim at Williamson’s weight, despite the fact that he’s been playing well.

The Pelicans responded with a troll job on social media, posting Smith’s less than impressive stats during his time playing at Winston-Salem State University and a highlight reel of his sports failures.

Then, Smith responded with a 10-minute rant claiming he doesn’t care and left questions about his college basketball career unanswered.

“You need to be educated a little bit more about Stephen A. Smith,” Smith said on his podcast. “Allow me to educate you. Number one, I don’t give a s**t. It doesn’t bother me that you troll me.”

Smith then told a sob story about a cracked knee that still bothers him now, which is why his stats were so bad.

“I’m not lying,” he explained.

Jason Whitlock isn’t buying it.

“You are lying,” Whitlock laughs.

“What he doesn’t go to now is ‘I have a six-inch screw in my knee.’ He’s completely dropped that because he knows how comical and stupid that is,” Whitlock explains.

The other thing that he will not mention is one of “the biggest smokest guns” according to Whitlock.

Smith claims that he was kept on the team — with a scholarship — while severely injured as a practice player and couldn’t run up and down the court more than three times without limping.

“If you played college athletics at any level,” Whitlock says, asking if anyone who couldn’t go up and down the court more than a few times was allowed to maintain a scholarship.

“These are the questions Stephen A. Myth needs to answer,” Whitlock says.

To hear more, watch the clip below.


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Apparently Stephen A. Smith ISN'T done talking about Jason Whitlock



Stephen A. Smith claimed he was done talking about Jason Whitlock, but then he proceeded to give a dissertation on the decade-plus of agony Whitlock’s criticism has caused him.

And he just continues to show the world that he is incapable of providing answers to legitimate questions and, as Whitlock calls him, “a pathological liar.”

“I don’t know of another human being worse than Jason Whitlock,” Smith said on his show. “He is a piece of s***. He’s the dude that’s going to have a funeral and ain’t going to be no pallbearers. Might be two people to show up.”

Smith then proceeded to call him “fat.”

Whitlock is well aware of what Smith is doing, which is creating a distraction.

“I’m going to rant and rave and curse and call names, and I’m going to create this whole distraction, and that’s going to be my response to Jason Whitlock’s legitimate questions, legitimate points about the lies told in his memoir,” Whitlock says.

“Virtually everything in this man’s memoir is suspect,” he adds.

Whitlock notes that Smith’s response hasn’t been to dispute any of Whitlock’s claims but rather just to call him a “fat bastard” and the worst human being alive.

He believes Smith is getting away with it because “the entire American culture has been corrupted to the point no one cares about truth; no one has any legitimate expectations.”

“Stephen A. Smith is a 56-year-old man who behaved like a 10-year-old child from a single-parent home,” Whitlock says.

“And no one batted an eye; no one in the media called him out for it.”

To learn more, watch the clip below.


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Exposed: Is Stephen A. Smith's bias against NBA's Luka Doncic based on race?



Is Stephen A. Smith race-baiting?

According to Jason Whitlock, that’s exactly what the ESPN host is doing.

When Joel Embiid dropped 70 points in a game, Smith and his colleagues were glowing. When the Dallas Mavericks’ Luka Doncic dropped 73 points in a game, Smith claimed it was just due to poor defense and a bad opponent.

The difference? A little over a week in timing and the color of the player’s skin.

“This brother is phenomenal, arguably the best big man in the game,” Smith told his colleagues about Embiid. “The message he sent is that he’s going for the championship. He’s not trying to mess around. He already got the league MVP.”

When it came to covering Doncic, Smith was much less impressed.

“The Atlanta Hawks, no wonder why y’all stink. Did you see how they played defense last night? I mean this is not Joel Embiid,” Smith says. “What transpired last night in Atlanta was disgraceful.”

While Smith doesn’t care much for Doncic’s performance, Whitlock doesn’t care for Smith’s.

“Anybody that’s paid attention to the NBA knows that what Luca Doncic did and how the Atlanta Hawks played, that’s par for the course in this new NBA,” Whitlock explains.

“For Stephen A. to single out this Atlanta Hawks game and Luca Doncic,” he continues, “it’s a joke.”

“Stephen A.’s contradictory messages here can only be defined and described in one way accurately: racist,” he adds.


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WATCH: Shaquille O’Neal weighs in on Stephen A. Smith-Whitlock feud



Jason Whitlock isn’t Stephen A. Smith’s biggest fan, and he’s let his viewers know.

Most recently, Whitlock accused Smith of exaggerating aspects of his career in the ESPN host’s memoir "Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes" — calling him “Stephen A. Myth.”

Smith clearly took it to heart, going on a nearly 40-minute rant during which he unloaded explicit shots at Whitlock.

The beef has gained so much attention that Shaquille O’Neal even weighed in, noting that he wouldn’t speak the way Smith did out of respect for his churchgoing mother.

“Jason Whitlock, I know he’s going to have something to say, and as a fan, I’m going to just sit back and watch,” O’Neal said on "The Big Podcast with Shaq."

“Even though those two are serious, it’s still comedy to me,” O’Neal added.

O’Neal then went on to laugh as he counted how many times Smith called Whitlock a “fat bastard” in his rant.

“You just got a master’s class on how to be a public figure, how to be a likable public figure, how to be a relatable public figure from Shaquille O’Neal. And how to mix in your message, what you really think, while being a relatable, fun-loving, public figure,” Whitlock says, laughing.

“Shaq very cleverly took no shots at Stephen A. Smith, but basically said ‘I have too much respect for my mother and my parents to make a fool of myself the way that Stephen A. Smith did,’” Whitlock continues.

“He made a fool of himself, and Shaq very politely called it out,” he adds.


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