Stephen A. Smith: ‘That was LeBron James coming up to me unexpectedly I might add, to confront me about making sure that I mind what I say about his son. Can’t repeat the words because they ain’t suited for FCC airwaves, that’s what he was doing. I assumed lengthy and onerous about this over the previous couple of hours as a result of I had no intentions, Molly, of speaking about this in any respect, and the rationale why is as a result of it was a one-on-one… I wouldn’t say a dialog, nevertheless it was a one-on-one confrontation. However then I awoke and all people from ESPN, my agent, and all people else have been telling me that this factor had gone viral and so in the end it was unavoidable and that’s the reason I’ve to debate it now. That wasn’t a basketball participant confronting me, that was a mother or father, that was a father and I can’t sit right here and be offended or really feel slighted by LeBron James in any manner in that regard. By all accounts he’s clearly a beautiful household man and a beautiful father who cares very deeply about his son and primarily based on among the feedback that he had heard or shall I say I believe he thought he heard, he clearly took exception to among the issues that he heard me say and he confronted me about it. For the file, his agent and good friend Wealthy Paul has my quantity, Maverick Carter who works on him has my quantity, LeBron James is aware of the best way to get in touch if he needs to. He by no means known as, as a result of he needed to speak to me I might have accepted that decision had he needed to see me I might have flown out and I might have seen him and I might have had a dialog man-to-man however that isn’t what he elected to do. As a substitute, he elected to confront me whereas I used to be sitting courtside.’ -via YouTube / March 7, 2025
