Stephen A. Smith has been around for a long time.
He knows exactly what he is doing, this is why he is a very rich man. He isn’t a rich man because he is writing about the triangle offense, he is a rich man because he knows what to say to get people to react to him.
That is why he is on TV, that is why he has a radio show and that is why ESPN is paying him $3 million a year.
It doesn’t matter if you like him or not. As a wise man told me once, better to be hated than no one caring at all.
KD fell into the trap and gave Stephen A. an outlet to drop a WWE style rant on 1st Take and that is exactly what he did.
https://youtu.be/eEXmNs_WdUQ
They are veiled threats, but they are threats. What does it mean when he says KD doesn’t want to see him in the arena?
I doubt he would snitch on the secrets that most reporters know about athletes and he isn’t going to fight him, this just sounded good for the cameras. It forces people to talk and people like myself to write about it. That is what the want, so mission accomplished.