Stephen A. Smith rails on Knicks stars for sloppy Game 4 play: What the hell is going on!

The Knicks weren’t exactly playing their best basketball against the Pacers through three quarters on Tuesday night.And Stephen A.

Smith was letting them know about it as directly as he could.The ESPN “First Take” panelist took to X during Game 4 and called out the team — which had 14 turnovers through 36 minutes — and he called for both Mikal Briges and Josh Hart to get it together, tagging their handles.“The @nyknicks desperately need @mikal_bridges to step up if they’re going to win this game.

Missed shots.Turnovers.

ill-timed decisions.#Damn [Come] on bro,” he wrote.

“You too @joshhart.The @nyknicks need him too.

Not taking the damn night off with one mishap after another! What the Hell is going on!”Hart and Bridges combined for just 15 points through three quarters as the team trailed by 11 points going into the final quarter.Game 4 was a huge swing game for the Knicks, which probably factored more into Smith, a well-known fan of the team, getting riled up over the team’s play.After losing two heartbreakers on home court, the Knicks rallied in Game 3 to make it a 2-1 series before Tuesday night.But after Game 1’s 14-point choke job, ex-NFL defensive end Chris Canty said on ESPN Radio that the Knicks were maybe suffering from what he called “the curse of Stephen A.

Smith” for his incessant trash talk of the Cowboys.Smith took exception to the trolling.“It’s that damn Chris Canty, I’m telling you right now, he does a phenomenal job for us on ESPN Radio every morning,” Smith said on “First Take” this week.

“But ever since he got that damn radio show, he’s gotten more evil.That’s what he’s done.

That’s what he turned into.Chris Canty used to be this nice big teddy bear…and then all of a sudden, he gets the morning radio show and he is just slicing and dicing people up – calling folks frauds and everything like that.

And now he’s trolling me.I’m gonna get him.”If the Knicks don’t come back to ta...