On a recent epiosde of Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich on OutKick, the host took a look at Stephen A. Smith’s reactions to both Joel Embiid and Luka Doncic joining the NBA’s elite list of players with 70 or more points in a game. Or, as Dakich put it, Smith was “talking about how great it was for Joel Embiid to drop 70 and how ball-hoggish and ridiculous it was for Luka Doncic.”
On Monday Jan. 22, Joel Embiid set a Philadelphia 76ers record, scoring 70 points in a win over the San Antonio Spurs. Four days later, Luka Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks put up 73 in a win over the Atlanta Hawks. Embiid and Doncic became the 9th and 10th players to eclipse the 70 point mark.
Dakich played clips of Stephen A. Smith’s talking about Doncic’s game the next day on television. “Let’s not go overboard with this,” Smith said. “Do fans want this? No, the league wanted it. They say it’s because of the fans. I am saying the fans don’t want guys getting mugged and no fouls getting called. But, the fans didn’t want what we saw last night in Atlanta.”
Smith was mainly talking about the lack of defense the Hawks played against Doncic, feeling like the game was simply everyone wanting to play offense and nobody wanting to defend. “What transpired last night in Atlanta was disgraceful,” Smith continued. “You don’t need for this to resemble the first three quarters of NBA All-Star weekend which is what last night looked like.”
Dakich believes race played a role in the comments Smith made about Doncic versus what was said a few days earlier when Embiid had his big game. “What Stephen A Smith is trying to do…is show his NBA brethren, the guys in the league, that he is down with their cause which is ‘whitey can’t play,” Dakich said. “It’s kind of fascinating really. I don’t know if ‘whitey can play’ or not, but I know Luka Doncic can play.
“I don’t know if this is racist, I don’t know if this is code…but it is the change that everybody wanted. I’ve been looking for the change, you guys haven’t. People just want to say this is the change, we need change. Well one of the changes is guys like [Stephen A.] Smith can be blatantly, or in code, racist and we are excepting of it, that’s the change. Racism without fear, that’s the change.”
Steven A. Smith is a raciest POS! Nobody cares what he says or anything he has to talk about!! Everyone can see him for what he is!!! Disgusting ???? individual!!!!!!
Stephen Smith is the biggest racist to ever work at ESPN. They don’t care though, as they are afraid if they get rid of him, it will lose a big portion of their African-American audience.
If you need proof of just how racist smith is just look how he reacted to the Boston Celtics firing of ime udoka. He said in so many words that if udoka was white he would have not been dismissed and it was clearly a race issue. And ESPN did not publicly reprimand him for it. He constantly gets away with crossing lines that most people can’t because ESPN is afraid of him calling them racist if the punish him the same way as his white counterparts.
Stephen A Smith is the reason I do not watch First Take. I watch FS1 to avoid his anti white racist comments..