Jason Whitlock has made Stephen A. Smith a topic of his BlazeTV show Fearless over the last few days, to the point that Smith himself dedicated pretty much the entire episode of his podcast to respond.
Jason Whitlock on Tuesday in reviewing Stephen A.’s memoir Straight Shooter, questioned if some of the stories Smith shared actually happened the way it was written. In particular, Whitlock didn’t believe Smith made his high school basketball team on a one-day tryout and then later landed a scholarship at Winston-Salem State University.
“What grown man that has made millions of dollars, has fame at Stephen A. Smith’s level, is running around telling farfetched tryout stories?” Whitlock asked.
Whitlock pushed a broader point that Smith is the sports media version of Hollywood plants that comedian Katt Williams referred to in his interview with Shannon Sharpe.
On X in the midst of posting clips to his Stephen A.-focused show, Whitlock quote tweeted Stephen A. promoting his book being available in paperback, digging further into claims that Smith’s basketball stories were not factual.
He said if Stephen A. would come on his show to talk about the book, he would pay for a kid from Smith’s neighborhood of Hollis, Queens to go to Winston-Salem State for four years.
Smith on Wednesday night did eventually issue a response to Whitlock in the form of The Stephen A. Smith Show. He also referred to Whitlock as a fat bastard on the air during First Take.
Jason Whitlock seemed unenthused by Smith’s attempts at clapping back.
Whitlock did address one point Smith brought up in his response about an email Jason sent in an attempt to put whatever beef the two had to rest.
Both of them are frauds. Whitlock acts the way old field hands used to behave praising the White players while down playing African American players. Stephen A. Smith is a narcissistic loudmouth that thinks he’s smarter than everyone else when the truth is he has to backtrack often because he’s initially wrong in his statements.