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"[Mason Rudolph was the one who started the fight."
@maxkellerman
thinks the reaction to Myles Garrett has been "hysterical."
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@TimTebow
passionately expresses his thoughts on the California Senate passing a bill allowing student-athletes to have endorsements.
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This morning Stephen A. Smith's mother, Janet Smith, passed away. Here is his tribute to her:
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"Everybody's fake acting like they care about KD's best interest when they don't. It's phony to me."
—
@JalenRose
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“I miss you and I love you. Thank you for inspiring me to be great.”
@DwyaneWade
pays his respects to Kobe Bryant at a memorial in Chicago.
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"Whoever’s paying him to say all this stuff, I will pay you double to stop it”
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@SHAQ
is not here for
@TheRyanHollins
saying the Warriors would beat MJ's Bulls
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@maxkellerman
wants to take a moment to address Stephen A.'s comments on Colin Kaepernick.
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"My patience left my body when I watched George Floyd take his last breath."
@MariaTaylor
voices her dismay over Drew Brees' comments.
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"When I look at LeBron, he's not what Michael (Jordan) was as a player. He's not even what Kobe Bryant was as a player."
–
@ScottiePippen
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"For him not to vote...as far as I'm concerned, everything he said meant absolutely nothing!"
-
@stephenasmith
on Colin Kaepernick
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@anthonyfjoshua
is ready for Deontay Wilder and has even penciled in a date for the fight 👀
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“Black life has always been cheap in this country and it’s time it starts getting more expensive.”
@maxkellerman
responds to the ongoing state of racial and social injustice in our country.
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"Kevin Durant, I'm sad for you bro. ... You have no help. And more importantly than anything else, you made the wrong decision by going to Brooklyn. ... KYRIE IRVING BETRAYED YOU!"
@stephenasmith
LOST IT 😳😳
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Oh noooo,
@stephenasmith
brought out the receipts this morning! 😲
"Kawhi Leonard, that might be the biggest choke job we've ever seen in NBA history."
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LeBron James is still the best player in the NBA today, according to our experts.
Do you agree?
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A source told
@stephenasmith
that Kawhi said "someone tell LeBron stop being scared to guard me!"
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@kendrickperkins
was coming for Stephen A. and Max's necks!
"Y'all are haters!! Michael Jordan and LeBron James are sitting at the same dinner table ... there's NO GAP!
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"I firmly believe that [LeBron James] is the best basketball player in the history of the game."
Former "Bad Boy" Piston, and Michael Jordan opponent, Bill Laimbeer.
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"Why are we not keeping the same energy for Giannis?!"
@KendrickPerkins
makes a very interesting case for LeBron for MVP.
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"If he were to go to the Los Angeles Lakers, you could literally make a legitimate case 'why should we watch basketball next season?'"
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@stephenasmith
on Kawhi Leonard
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@RealJayWilliams
needed to walk off set after
@maxkellerman
said Kawhi is better than Kobe under pressure.
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@IsiahThomas
believes that LeBron is the most dominant player he's ever seen.
"When he passes Kareem in scoring, you HAVE to anoint him as the GOAT." 🐐
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"I'm sick of these guys stacking their team ... I hate the super team."
—Charles Barkley
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@danorlovsky7
: "If I went and played for the Jets, they'd be a playoff team."
@stephenasmith
: "When you're the quarterback, you do have to stay in bounds in order to produce on the football field."
😭😭😭
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"I've never seen anybody in a booth call a game as great as I saw
@tonyromo
."
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@stephenasmith
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In an interview with
@stephenasmith
,
@TripleH
officially announces his retirement from in-ring competition.
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"I've been covering the NBA now for almost 25 years. This is some of the stupidest nonsense I've ever seen. Just flat-out stupid."
@stephenasmith
reacts to the latest reports on Kyrie Irving.
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Mike Tomlin reacts to the allegations made against Mason Rudolph.
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"There was something about Kobe Bryant that was so present, and alive, and invincible that the idea that ... the sun comes up today and he's not in the world seems unreal."
Beautifully spoken,
@maxkellerman
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"If Steph Curry beats LeBron in this series, and dare I say, wins his fifth NBA championship, we might have to remove LeBron James off of Mount Rushmore and put Steph Curry on it."
😳
@stephenasmith
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Here's the one point
@willcain
says everyone is missing in this whole D'Angelo Russell situation.
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@jj_redick
responds to
@stephenasmith
saying Kawhi Leonard needs to be forced into retirement:
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omg
Breaking : The New York Knicks signs The LEGEND
@stephenasmith
on a 10 day $500 Mil Contract
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@KOT4Q
is all in on the Kings 🔥
"De'Aaron Fox has been the clutchest player in the league. ... Malik Monk coming off the bench dropping 30. The Kentucky boys are a little bit different."
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"HE'S DRAKE, DAMMIT ... Do people in power need to have control over every damn thing?"
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@stephenasmith
wants people to let
@Drake
be Drake.
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@mcuban
wants Taylor Swift to break up with Travis Kelce to date a Mavs player 😂
"Taylor, sorry if you're listening Travis. Break up with him, I got a bunch of good-looking single guys that play for the Dallas Mavericks. I gotchu."
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@stephenasmith
still doesn’t understand why the news in Canada is leading with hockey. 😂
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We started talking about the Knicks, but had to go to commercial because things got too sad.
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@maxkellerman
says LeBron is properly ranked as No. 3 on ESPN's NBArank.
@stephenasmith
needed to gather himself before responding 😂
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"If you're going to talk betrayal, it's only with Rob [Pelinka]."
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@magicjohnson
on the Lakers
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"There's too many people speaking on my name, and I don't like that."
–Carmelo Anthony on people saying he's not willing to play off the bench
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@stephenasmith
brings insight on what he was told happened behind-the-scenes before Kevin Durant signed with the Warriors.
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"I'm glad [Michael Jordan] is not my GOAT. ... He lied, he threw everybody under the bus. At the end of the day, The Last Dance was to make MJ look like a super hero, and make everybody else look like a villain."
@KendrickPerkins
responds to audio contradicting Jordan.
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"Kobe Bryant's on the [All-Decade] worst team."
@maxkellerman
's take had
@MollyQerim
WALK OFF the set 😂
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@jj_redick
STRONGLY disagrees with
@KendrickPerkins
that Nikola Jokić is stat-padding 😳
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"He'd be eating out of my hands."
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@dennisrodman
on how he'd match up with Draymond Green
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"You're pathetic!"
Breaking:
@stephenasmith
will no longer be discussing Tom Brady with Max 😳
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"When Michael Jordan left in '93 ... Scottie Pippen was the best player in the world."
—Dennis Rodman
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"Lamar's on track for 4,500 yards and 36 touchdowns. ... And we're sitting here saying [the Ravens] aren't getting ENOUGH out of Lamar Jackson?"
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@danorlovsky7
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Are we gonna see Marvin Bagley III and
@Dame_Lillard
go bar for bar on First Take one of these days?
@MB3FIVE
is ready whenever :eyes:
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"The Brooklyn Nets should be named the Brooklyn Hostess Cupcakes because they're creamy and they're soft in the middle."
😭
@KendrickPerkins
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@cheetah
is calling out Marquise Goodwin and challenging him to a race.
"I already proved that I'm better than you at wide receiver ... now I gotta prove to you that I'm faster than you too."
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"I'm being harassed by James Dolan and I don't know why."
—Spike Lee
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@FloydMayweather
says they are working on a Conor McGregor fight, with some SERIOUS 💵💰💵!
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"I am where I'm supposed to be. ... All you recruits out there, baby you know I ain't hard to find."
😎
@DeionSanders
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@CUBuffsFootball
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@stephenasmith
just can't fathom having to deal with the Knicks losing AND Boogie Cousins 😩
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"If I'm Deshaun Watson, I'd go into Bill O'Brien's office and I'd ask to be traded."
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@stephenasmith
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Charles Barkley weighs in on load management in the NBA:
"You can't make $30, $40, $50 million and then sit out games. I think it's disrespectful to the game, I think it's disrespectful to the fans."
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@jj_redick
shares a story about competing against a 16-year old LeBron and knowing how great he would become 🤯
“He has AT LEAST reached the bar!”
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@stephenasmith
believes the Suns' championship window has already closed.
Things between him and
@jj_redick
got HEATED 😳🔥
"To say their championship window has closed is asinine! No it hasn't!"
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"It's going to be a different LeBron on Christmas Day, I guarantee it."
Anthony Davis on the re-match with the Clippers 👀👀👀
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