Stephen A. Smith on being confronted by LeBron James last night: “That wasn’t a basketball player confronting me. That was a parent… [LeBron] clearly took exception to some of the things I said… He elected to confront me while I was sitting courtside… He feels like I was slighting his son.”
![Stephen A. Smith on being confronted by LeBron James last night: “That wasn’t a basketball player confronting me. That was a parent… [LeBron] clearly took exception to some of the things I said… He elected to confront me while I was sitting courtside… He feels like I was slighting his son.”](https://meta.cdns.win/en/2025/03/Stephen-A-Smith-on-being-confronted-by-LeBron-James-last-860x484.webp)
yo the lip readers were right lol
Stephen A was hanging out with Larry David which is hilarious
OK, but what did Stephen A actually say about his son? What ignited all of this?
“Disrespect me in public then in public is where we talk about it”
-Eazy the Block Captain
It just fascinates me how reddits reactions are a complete 180 from reactions across all other social media all the time Lol
LeFather
who cares that he didn’t call? he walked up to you in person SAS that’s respect
>I had no intention of ever talking about this, because it was a one on one private conversation, but then I woke up and everyone was talking about it.
Yea, SAS, that’s a fucking lie, lmao. You had every intention of talking about this and could hardly sleep due to the excitement of yapping about LeBron getting mad at you. How do we know this? Your entire career is based on yapping about Lebron, people aren’t going to believe you when you eventually cry wolf.
Is him talking about this not him continuing to talk about LeBron’s son?
Yall acting like you weren’t just saying worse shit about bronny months ago. Bron gonna stick up for his family, respect that
Dude is saying he wasn’t going to talk about this while wearing that suit?! This bum couldn’t sleep all night just chomping at the bit to get on air to spew his shit.
We don’t claim this clown in NY.
Stephen A Smith is a clown
You know that SAS shit his pants lol
“Shall I say he THOUGHT he heard”?!?!?!? There’s video of you saying this shit…..naw dude this dude a scumbag
I think this is less about SAS critiquing Bronny’s play and more about how he told LeBron to “take notes” on how Melo was parenting his son. Which I read as him saying LeBron was being a bad parent to his son who almost died. Which would also make me upset lol.
I give SAS credit for all his hustle and hours put in.
Pass on subject matter unless it’s actually relevant.
If I want TMZ, I’ll go TMZ.
Tell me about how well the Lakers are playing and how surprising they are on defense and how rejuvenated Lebron is.
Basketball and media coverage will be in a better place when SAS is no longer involved with it
AITAH
I called someone a bad father on television and he yelled at me. He didn’t call me or have his agent call me or offer a sit down meeting. He just saw me on his way to work and yelled at me. WTF?
He’s attacking LeBron because his son is the 15th guy on the Lakers bench and playing decent in G League?
It’s hypocritical for SAS to use the notion of “you have my number” so you can reach him privately to sort things out with him when he uses his public platforms to make his hot takes (not journalism and not reporting). LeBron did confront SAS about Bronny, “man-to-man” in the same fashion SAS uses his own platforms to air out his opinions…in the public eye.
If SAS was holding up to his own standards he would’ve contacted LeBron about airing his thoughts about Bronny before saying it on his podcast. It goes both ways.
Luka needs to take Bronny under his wing, fatten him up and teach him Slovenian style ball
Didn’t SAS just put his nephew on by having him as a regular on his podcast? Bunch of hypocrites I swear.
Dodging accountability like a motherfucker
Lebron is soft, Jordan wouldn’t even keep his sons out of jail.
Dad please stop
Turning this back on LeBron making him the bad guy, is such a Stephen A thing to do
Oh my bad… so now confronting someone in person is no longer being a man? These times are really affecting SAS, too.
But you were
I’m dying about Larry David being there for this
To me this makes it worse for Bronny. Bronny is an adult getting paid millions to play. Your dad can’t stick up for you at work, he needs to stand on his own two and do it if he has a problem. That’s like my father coming into my job and telling off my supervisor for speaking to me in a foul way, I’d get laughed at. If Bronny has the talent that LeBron feels he does, then let his game talk and let Bronny speak up for himself.
I don’t like SAS but if all he said was the stuff about him being put in the spotlight too early, he wasn’t lying. Bronny wasn’t ready for the NBA and he only got drafted because LeBron is his dad. The kid barely played in college and struggled there when he did play. It’s obviously what happened. I get the whole defending of your kid, but LeBron can be so thin skinned some times. Your child is an adult playing for the LA Lakers. He’s going to be criticized if he underperforms. So few players are drafted in the NBA each year and he took someone’s spot because he’s LeBron’s son
LeBron And Stephen A. Smith gotta fight. No choice.
Stephen a has been very upfront for a year that he did not want to talk about bronny or even watch him play, but he was forced to once he made the nba. There is no reason to talk about a rookie like that though until they perform. If they don’t earn the right to talk about them, just don’t talk about them. No harm no foul that way
lot of hypocrisy in this thread tbh
lebron is completely justified in what he did, a father standing up for his son is not something i will ever disagree with
however, not only did what stephen a say about bronny have truth to it, acting like stephen a is weird or doing something wrong for criticizing bronny is absolutely ludicrous. bronny is an nba player. SAS job is to cover the NBA. the argument of “why criticize him he was the 55th pick” doesnt hold because he wouldnt have been picked if it wasnt for lebron. you dont get to use your influence to get your son into the nba when he wouldnt have been there otherwise and then have some righteous argument saying your son shouldnt be criticized, thats not how the world works.
also the same people that shit on SAS for covering bronny i guarantee have said far worse things about bronny themselves