On Wednesday, he mocked the team's trade for Walker Kessler, pairing him with Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves."Where the hell the Los Angeles Lakers think they are going with a bunch of White dudes?" he asked on his podcast."Your three top players are White dudes.
Really? This is basketball."ZERO BS.JUST DAKICH.
TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD.DOWNLOAD NOW!He then asked, "In NBA history, when has a team led by three White dudes ever gone to the promised land? Somebody gotta say it."To answer his question: Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Danny Ainge.Smith then declared, "You ain't going anywhere with three White dudes.
Ain't no way."OutKick asked Smith via email why he believes White basketball players are inferior and whether he believes there are any cases in which Black athletes are inferior.He did not respond by the time of publication.
We will update this story if he does.We want to stress that Smith not only made these comments on-air but also had his team post the clip on social media.He and his team appear proud of his racist remarks.
Like many Black members of sports media, Smith takes pride in his anti-White bigotry.And that's exactly what this segment was: anti-White bigotry.CAITLIN CLARK HARD CONTACT TIMELINE: WNBA'S GROWING HISTORY OF BRUTAL HITS AGAINST THE FACE OF THE SPORTStephen A.Smith appears on the ESPN NBA Countdown live set at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, on Oct.
23, 2024.(Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)Imagine the outrage if Smith heard someone question how far an NFL team could go with a Black quarterback, Black head coach and Black general manager.
In fact, Smith has long argued that the NFL has overlooked Black candidates at those positions because of racial bias.Yet in this case, he's the one reducing athletes to their race.Apparently, that's okay, so long as the athletes who are reduced are White.The comments also make Smith look uninformed.Luka Doncic led the NBA in scoring this past season at 33.5 points per game.
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