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And thank you because you was one of the people that inspired me as well a lot of people both for y'all. I mean, I'm proud of y'all with y'all books and what y'all have done. But I tell you, um, it was a long time coming. I really didn't want to do it. Um people have been They would have been asking me since ESPN let me go in two thousand and nine to write a book, and I didn't

want to. I didn't want to because I always said if I wrote a book, you know, I got to be straight up about you know, just my life and kind of the things, the kind of things I had to go through on a personal level. And then my

mother got rest us. So before she passed away in twenty seventeen, she had always made me prom us, don't ever write a book until I pass away, because she knew that I was going to talk about, you know, some of the relationships that I had grown up with Pops and others in my family and stuff like that, and she knew I was gonna do that, and she did not want me to do that while she was alive. She said, you go and do it. I'm just asking you for one favor, don't do it until I pass away.

So I had waited all of those years that then even after I wasn't gonna do it, and then my sisters reminded me, Hey, go ahead and do it. Go ahead, guy got folded. They said, it's time. Why now, because you've always been like a private person personally. Yeah, I still am, I believe it or not. I still am. But there's a lot to tell. There's a lot to tell in terms of the path that I had to travel to get to where I am. And so you tell some of those stories and you try to be inspirational,

as y'all have done. With y'all book and whatever. You know, you tell people. You know, you don't tell them every single little nugget about your life, but you tell a lot, and you tell a lot with the golden mina of being constructive and being inspirational and just trying to let people know, Look, you ain't the only person have been through stuff. It's a whole bunch of us have been

through stuff. And we walked through that terrain and we carried ourselves on through and we, through the grace of God and a lot of help from a lot of people, we were able to pull it off. So you can't too. And that's basically what you're doing. You're being You're trying to be as motivational and inspirational as you possibly can. But in the same breath, in order to do that, you got to be real. And so I just said, Hey, I'm just gonna do it. Did you know what you

wanted to do as a kid? You know what I always I grew up idolizing Howard Cosell and be primarily because of Muhammad Ali and his relationship with Muhammad Ali and then Brian Gumble, because I saw him doing everything. You know, it was like it was the Today's Show. It was he used to do NFL on ABC and the Olymics. He did everything, and so I grew up idolizing them, and I had fantasized about that. But I also I always fantasized about being a criminal lawyer. And

this is before I mean I literally did. But you know, I'm I'm in the I'm in I'm in the fourth grade, and I'm getting left back because I got on undiagnosed dyslexa dyslexa, and I'm saying, hey, you know what, ain't away I'm going to law school. I'm thinking, like, hell no, ain't doing that. But I mean I grew up watching Perry Mason and Mad Logging This four, Law and Order, all of those crime shows that anything that had the

courtroom in it I fantasized about. So I always said, you put me in a court, ain't nowhere in hell you're gonna convince me. I'm gonna lose out on convincing twelve jurors to see my way. And I always believe that. But then the journalism came and all of a sudden it just blew up unexpectedly because even though later earlier on in my life. I didn't have that confidence. Later on I did. And when I had that confidence, I

was ready to do it. But then this journalism took off and I was like, you know, I'm doing quite well. Let me stick with this. How'd you overcome to Dyslexiao, because you're one of the most articulate people speaking on television today. My older sister, Linda, she was a teacher back the day my sister Carmen as a teacher. Now my sister Abbey Gills and the education system as a superintendent. But Linda was a teacher. And Linda literally taught me how to read and write and and one of my

best friends growing up, his name was Ronnie Is. His big brother, Tiver was also brilliant. So whenever I was over his house, Tiver was a brilliant dude, and he would teach me how to read. And then I come home to Linda, and Linda would sit me down four or five days she said, we're gonna overcome this, and you know, she would teach me how to read it right. And then in the seventh grade, I had a teacher that told my mother during the parent teachers night, he

said he ain't stupid, not at all. She said, he's not focused. He drifts, He doesn't focus and concentrate on things that bore him. But when he's when he's interested in something, he's locked in and he don't miss anything when he's like that, fine what he's interested in And watch what you had? Watch many times? Do you argue with your sisters like how was your house growing up? Because you like to argue. But here's the deal, here's the reason why. Because I wasn't allowed to growing up.

I got four older sisters. Bro shut the hell up. Then that's that's on the regular. So you know, you got four women. And it's like, I remember the scariest moment in my adult life because it's related to your question. I had to go on the View right after the Tiger stuff came out, and I was like, cool, Soto, problem is, Peter, let me go. It was you know, I had gotten the Fox Sports radio. They asked me to come on the View. I said fine, and I

walked in the studio and it's Barbara Walters there. It's Barbara Walters, Joy, Joey Bayhard and Elizabeth Hasselback all this back in those days, okay, And I walked in. You got these four women on the set. That's cool. But the audience was like stadium seeing and it looked like they right on top of you, right, And I was the only man in the entire studio, right, There wasn't a male in sight. That I was the only spec of testosterone. It was it was like, I said, oh,

how did you hear the hell about that? But the end then they was asking me about Tiger and I was like, well, you know, I'm trying to what are you saying I got myself into you know? To me? And it was like but then I remember I grew up around this. I grew up around this. I knew how to handle it. And if it wasn't for my upbringing, what my fault oldest sisters and my mother. There's five women telling me what to do. You shut the hell up when we tell you to shut the hell up.

The subject in that position too, because I feel like a lot of times as women, especially in sports, you see a lot of women who might be the only woman, yeah in the room, And so I love the reverse when that happened. We don't, we don't. It's scary. It's scary as scary as hell. I mean to this day. That is the scariest moment in my career because you gotta remember typing out of some stuff now and I'm like, I'm walking in this studio. I'm like, there's nothing I

can say. I mean, I got to figure out a way. And they were just looking at me like you even uttered the room syllable We're gonna be on you. And I was like, that's interesting, especially with like the Ema Joker stuff happening now and seeing Shacks say, I don't want to weigh in and criticize this because I've been through the things that I've been through, So you don't want to be a hypocrite. Well, you don't want to

be a hypocrite. But in the same breath, if you're sitting in that chair and all of y'all can relate to this with the great show y'all have been doing for years, you gotta call it like you see it. And what we gotta do is we gotta be careful. You can talk about an incident without talking about the person. And this is what listen. You know how many people disagree with me every day. I have no issue with you attacking what I say or what situation I've addressed.

That's entirely different than attacking me. I can. I can compartmentalize. And if you're sitting in that chair, you know I told shout, bro, you can avoid it all you want to T and T coming up, Bro, season get ready to start, You're gonna have to avoid it. You're gonna have to talk about it at some point. I definitely told them that. And so for me, you're dan right. I touched on it, but I touched on it from a different angle. There's no excuse for him to find

himself in that position that he was in. But my position, religiously was it's none of our business. There's no reason on earth that you can justify to me why the Boston Celtics had that press conference while we're having this discussion. That was an h R matter. I've been covering sports formas thirty years. I'm telling you every year the stories like this. Every year you don't see it being discussed.

You hear about the Can't getting fired, and you hear rumors as to why, but you don't know it's not validated by the organization. And then you know, I took it a step further and I mentioned this blackness only from this perspective, you kept him, you retained him, You didn't fire him. That means no one has the right to come and get him. You suspended him, but it was indefinite. You said, I'm gonna suspend you for a year, but then after the year, we're gonna we're gonna look

into it. I mean, that's bs all right. You probably docked half his pay, because that's what my source has told me. You docked half his pay, And I'm like, so he doesn't he can't work, he can't go elsewhere. You docked half his pay, his futures up in arms, and you publicize his personal business because the press release,

I mean, I'm sorry. The report said consensual relationship. Now you might have violate the organizational policy and all that, but it said so essentially, all of this has happened because of a consensual relationship. Now we don't know her status, and even if we did, we can't say because you know, they haven't revealed that information. You know, you can get sued for stuff like that. But here's what I know about him. He ain't married, and it was a consensual relationship.

According to y'all. You think, do you think we'll ever get the full story. Hell yeah, you can't. Not just that you can't do what you did with this man, and there's not going to be an uproar at some point. And I said it, and then people was getting on me about that. I said, I know plenty of white dudes that's that, that's screwing around in the office in sports. This stuff wasn't public so I know at least three dudes personally that got fired because of it. It was

never publicized. We heard about it, but it was never publicized. And guess why, because they're working for another team now, not in that capacity that they were. It might have been on the lower level, but they still are employed in the same and with the same brand. Because why it wasn't publicized or put out on front streat like they say something that sure, he's not married, that's right,

that's right. Allegedly one of the women are. Why are they attacking him so much for the rest if it's an organizational policy, why the woman's name is Listen, we totally agree. I'm not gonna sit up here in front and act like we disagree. What I'm saying is in the interest of making sure that all our eyes I dieded in teas across and we don't have folks coming at us talking about why, why why are we trying to make somebody else the victim. All I'm saying is

it's always private. We've never heard the details you heard. They got fired. You could speculate as to why, but because it's not known, another team has no problem bringing you on board and employing you because that's never been confirmed. By having the press conference, you confirmed the stuff that was put out there about him. You said nothing about her, And I'm not saying to put her on front street.

I'm saying he shouldn't have been talked about. Let him go or keep him, but keep the matter in house. They didn't do that because they wanted to suspend him and make an example of him. And it could have been, you know, enforced by somebody else. But the bottom line is it was wrong. Do you think because he was black? Well, I think that part to me. I'm not gonna go that far, but I will say this, I haven't seen it happen to any white boys. I'm gonna tell it

like that. I haven't seen it, and I said it. I said it on National TOUGHIC. I ain't see anybody, and everybody. Everybody backed up because they know I've covered this league and I've covered professional sports for a quarter century. And I went on national television and I said, I know plenty of white boys that's been doing their thing in the office. Nobody said anything we didn't know, and they and everybody backed up because they know I'm telling

the truth. It's just the truth, and it's it's jacked up to that. Listen, he ain't perfect, and whatever he had coming to him, if the organization they had courts to fire now because I heard that he obviously violated the organization of policy. And then plus he lied initially won approach. So now you got cause you got him debt the rights. Okay, you can't defend him. If they wanted to let them go, they could let them go,

but then let him go. Don't hold them and keep him from working and keep him from going someplace else to work. You have ruined this man's career because of a consensual relationship. Ain't nothing right about that man. And then, to me, that's the point that everybody's missing. To your point, that's that's a great point. Clearly, they're protecting some one person in this situation which absolutely him. It's just like, go golify him, play much right, that's right, throw him

out to pasture, and and and black man. We know about that all too well. So people are gonna sit up there and say, Steve and A's trying to make it a race issue. Actually know you made it a race issue by how you elected to handle this. All I said was I said, fire him or keep him. But you don't do this because you've never done it to anybody else. So why is the first example of black man? I got a problem with that. What do

you think about Matt barnes comments? Because I wondered from an og journalism perspective looking at the new media and they called it. What do you think his comments? He'll never work again. He thinks if they listen, if the full he might be right. He might be right about that, he's not wrong. And I think that in Matt Barnes case, who's a good brother, by the way, he's real good brother. I think with him. Here's the issue. I think he

felt uncomfortable with the ledge he went out on. It wasn't so much the story itself, but the things he said initially. And sometimes you find yourself in that situation where you might know all the facts, but you went too far out. It's saying what you said and you got a backtrack, and people are thinking that you're backtracking totally because you went out too far. I didn't go out too far. I said exactly what I meant. I

said it a week and a half ago. Damn it, I'm saying the same thing now because I know that the story is going is gonna percolate, it's going to develop even more. We're gonna hear more details coming out of it, and I'll be front. I mean, listen, I'm not gonna front with you and act like we didn't hear what's going on and we don't know. I mean, there's a lot of details that I know that I cannot say because for legal issues and what have you, you just can't do that. But trust me when I

tell you, it comes from a place of knowledge. I know what the hell I'm talking about, and I know how screwed over he's gotten in all this. He ain't innocent, and if he got fired, he would have deserved it, period. But you didn't have to do that. Him getting fired is one thing you publicize in his business like. That is an entirely different matter altogether. He'd have lost his

job with the Boss and Celtics. If you handled it correctly in this instance, you might have ended his career as a head coach and as a rookie head coach. He did what the president of basketball operations couldn't do in seven years. He took these brothers to the NBA finals in year one, year one and this and this is the other part that y'all got to know about it. He's making about three million, three three to three and

a half million dollars. Had he had another successful season and I'm not talking finals, he could have got them to the conference finals whatever. He's in a position next summer to negotiate a contract that's paying him at least triple at least nine million today's NBA company at least nine to ten million dollars. That's to go on rate for a lot of these brothers are right. So now you've squashed that because what leveraging position does he have. He can't come to you and negotiate a deal that's

gonna get him a raise next year. You've stripped him of everything because of a consensual relationship. I don't know if it was personal. I know that it was handled in a way that I don't think enough people are breaking attention to. It's an HR matter, y'all. It's an HR matter. If it happened with one of y'all, if it happened with me, if it happened to anybody, it's

none of our business. Man, it's an internal matter. Now, if it's not, if it's not consensual, and you're talking about something else, sexual assault, rape, something like, that's a different matter. You're breaking the laws. But if it's legal and consensual, it's none of our business. That's why we got to have another conversation about the power of self control. Brothers got to learn discipline. Like, there's certain situations you just shouldn't put yourself into, and that's one of them.

That's right, Which is why I say if they fired him, I wouldn't have said the word you put yourself in that position? What are you doing? What are you doing? You you're you're a rookie head coach. You just got there, okay, and you find yourself in this position. There's no excuse. Now, listen, from the beginning of the time, men have had problem resisting women I mean, I mean from Adam and Eve for crying out lot, it's very very predictable. That's a

little bit happ like what she's like. I mean, I would like hopefully Stevens people get exercise something that they can then straight. But I mean, listen, there's no question about it. And especially and as black man, we gotta understand this. Yeah, times, times are what they are, and we believe progress has been made, but we also recognize that there's a long way to go, and so the rules are still different for us than it is for

white men. Is call it what it is. You gotta know that and your responsibility to yourself and your community and and folks on the come up that idolize you because of the position that you're in. You know, you gotta be careful, though, you gotta be careful. Look at a position. I mean, come on, man, come on, man, you you think you think that if I haven't had opportunities to get with folks in the industry and whatever,

you ain't playing that game. You know they ain't worth my check, then they're not worth what I built to try and accomplish for myself. I'm not going that route. That's just me they'll send people that somebody like, yes, and they had, and they had and they have to listen. You can't put you can't put it past anybody. Because you got people and they listen, They're gonna come at

you in a variety of ways. I've been in situations where I've been proposition covering the NBA Playoffs, NBA Finals, and I'm not saying this is exactly what happened, but I wondered who said them because the women were a little bit too aggress I'm like, like, I don't think I look like Godzilla, but I ain't that damn attractive. Now. This is a little bit too aggressive here. I mean, why they acting like they got to get with me something? Something's fishy about that. You know what I'm saying. I

didn't know. But you have that suspicion and that and that and that success, that intuition. You gotta you gotta get it self, protect them. You gotta be like, you know, this is just a little too good to be true. You know what I'm saying, ain't right about this, you know, I mean you know what I mean, Me me, me, you know, me meeting a honey or whatever. Ain't fun all right that you know that happens with all of us. But you know, three women coming up to me at

the same time. I say, you know, thank you, but no thank you, and they still come in. They don't want to take no for an answer. They're trying to find out what hotel I mean, in what hotel room I mean rather because we were in the lobby of the hotel. It's happened in Dallas years ago during the finals between Dallas and the Miami Heat. And I'm sitting there like this is too good to hell. These women, these women want me like this. Hell, no, I'm not.

I mean, I'm a confident I'm a confident brother, but damn no, I'm not falling for that. No past now, yeah, no mercy. Yes, so this is more in the field of politics. Yes, well, it's not limited to just politics. It's it's politics, it's news as pop coaching entertainment is. Listen, each and every single one of you. I expect, I hope expect to have y'all on as a guest. I mean, listen, there's a lot of issues that I like to talk about and what what what what's beautiful about the show?

This is the freedom that y'all have to tackle a multitude of issues. Understand that I've been in sports my entire career. I never had that latitude. Now it seems that way at times, because we tackle issues on first take that you wouldn't anticipate on sports television. But the reason for that is that some way, somehow it found its way into the sports landscape, so it gave us

a license to talk about issues. You can talk about Colin Captick, and all of a sudden you found yourself getting into politics because of then President Trump is how he politicized and hijacked the narrative and all of this other stuff. So you find yourself sifting into that area. But for the most part, it's been sports, and I've been confined to that. This is different. It's my podcast, I own it. I'm in one hundred percent control of the content for it. It's not associated with Disney and

ESPN in any way. And so for me, it's it's just about talking about the issues that are percolating, the people who matter, the difference makers, the kind of impact they intend to have, and personalizing those conversations. I'm still gonna give my monolaus. I'm still gonna get my closing remarks.

You're gonna always hear from me in terms of how I feel on an issue on a case by case basis, but in the same breath that's gonna It's really about talking to the people that are influencers and difference makers, and more importantly, letting the audience know who to listen to. Like I'm not one of those people when it kind of politives. I got my own thoughts and opinions. But I will be the first to say I don't know. This is what I see and based on the evidence,

this is what I deduce from. But you should talk to this person and this person. You should listen to this show and that show. I'm not somebody that's gonna look at it and say listen to me and don't listen to anybody else. No, I want you to listen to those other people because I listen to them. I want to hear what y'all have to say, what your thoughts are, what your opinions are, et cetera, et cetera. And if we disagree, we disagree, and if we agree,

we that's that's even better. But it's all good. Okay. I saw saw good, I saw you the other day and you said you weren't gonna be so hard on Kareem. Yes, but I did. I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm trying to move forward. I'm trying. I'm not trying to go to the past. But when I saw Kareem's comments, what you call them comical buffoon, I did wonder what you thought about that. I wouldn't call him. I wanted to call

Kyrie a buffoon at all. I'm not gonna question the intelligence of a brother, although he has said some bizarre things in the past, the world is flat and stuff like that. He said his uncle is gonna have a conversation with you. I'm not his uncle. Well, well yeah he did. Actually, Well, here's the deal. Kyrie's father is from the Bronx, and so there's a couple of Cats and the Bronx that know me well. They he grew up with them, I've known them throughout my adult life.

They've been mentors and friends and all of that other stuff. And so I laughed about it because they're my boys. I should Hell, I give you some of their names. Rod Stricken, Gary Howard Harry Howard is a former executive sports as executive sports editor for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel at a time with sixteen hundred papers throughout the daily papers, daily newspapers about this country where you only had about

two black sports editors. He was one of them. He's the former deputy sports editor and the Philadelphia Inquirer, and he was the one that got me hired to the Philadelphia Inquirer before I got into television and all of that. So that's one of his boys, his dad's boys. You got Rod Strickland, who's godfather. You got Gary Howard, you

got his brother, Gary Howard's brother, Reggie Howard. I know these brothers and so, and of course Kenny Smith from T and T because he knows the men like family, and so you know, they all reached out to me at one point in time or another. Stephen, hey Man, you know, lay off whatever. And I said, Yo, fellas, I said, y'all caught up in how I deliver and how I talk. You're not listening to my content. The only thing I said about the brothers, you gotta show

up to work. You don't show up the work, you don't get paid. You can talk all that stuff you want all the time. I had a problem taking the vaccine. I don't have any problem with anybody who was quite you know, apprehensive about taking the vaccine. I was talking about a different discussion. The different discussion is they all live in Brooklyn because of you. You wanted them there and they all signed on. They said, Yo, we got

to go for the chip and ship. We can't do it unless we vaccinated because they're gonna get in our way. Everybody said, we down. But you oh, you know what, Jaylen Brown didn't take the vaccine. Well, Massachusetts didn't, had Porson didn't had that policy at place New York does. It ain't fair. Andrew Wiggins Golden State, a hell city, San Francisco had that policy. Andrew Wiggins didn't want to take the vaccine. They were like, yeah, man, we're trying

to win the chip, and that's what he did. I said, that's what I was addressing. So you could talk about putting something in your body and all that stuff, and I get it, and that's real, no question about it. But at the end of the day, you're trying to win the chip or not. And then it didn't happen. I said, look, that ain't the only time you missed work. You've been missing games for years. It's eleven years. You've never played more than sixty games in the season before

times in eleven years. So I pointed out that stuff and I said, you ain't gonna get paid. You can book it. And so when people saw me on the air, they were like, Oh, you're trying not to get the brother paid. Once again, you don't pay attention to my career. I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. I didn't tell them not to pay them. I'm saying, this is what they're telling me. You ain't gonna get this money now. And I had owners like, he ain't getting that money.

And what happened the summer. He can't get that money. He had to opt in and play the final year of his deal because, as he admitted, there were not but so many options. What have I been telling y'all all year? And so now we fast forward to this season, Bradley Bill got two hundred plus a million, Zach Levine and Chicago got two hundred plus a million. I want Kyrie to get his money, but you are spectacular box office caliber talent that we deserve to see. His problem,

in my opinion, is that we're beneath him. It's like he's so brilliant and he's such a savant that he sees things that none of us see, or damn it, what we really want to see as you ball? Do we really want to see as you playing forty one nights a year at Barclay Center at least? At least how about thirty okay getting a roll, put in more than sixty games in the season and be the show stopper that you are. So you know, I'm not going to disrespect him like Kareem did. I think that's unnecessary.

But you gotta remember see Kareem's civil rights activists, his brother's deepest hell. He's been around a long time. He's one of the greatest who's ever lived. He's qualified to say what he said. I wouldn't go that far, but I do think the frustration seeps him because you're looking at him and you're saying, come on, bro, some of the things that you're saying, some of the positions that you're taking, you retweeting stuff about conspiracy theories and all

of this. I mean, it's the kind of stuff that damages you. It damages the brand, and it makes you look bad, and somebody need to tell you. That's all I would have said if I was Kareem as a closer calling them names, But that's just me. Should to retire, I think so. I'm not sure because we don't know all the details. I will tell you if I were him, I'm suing somebody, and I'm not usually that dude, but I'm suing somebody. For him to take the hit Sunday

in Buffalo. You get up, you stumble, you fall back down. And for them to say was a back issue, it was not a head issue. Understand what concussion protocols. You usually take six to seven days. He had another game in four four days. Okay, you put his life in danger because he's back out there now. To the In fairness to the Miami Dolphins, they swear we followed all the necessary protocols. We did everything right. We stand by that. Well, why the hell the independent doctor that you had, why

did you release him? Why did he get dismissed? Because you didn't do everything right? And anybody with two odys can see that brother who was in a world of trouble. You put him back in the same game Sunday. Then you turned around, you played them Thursday, and everybody tells you the second concussion is what's the most dangerous. The first concussion does damage, but the second one is where your life can really really be in danger. And in my opinion, he shouldn't be allowed to play the for

the rest of the season, at the very least. At the very least, and considering concussions and how big these brothers are compared to him, the next hit, you don't know what kind of damage that could do. I want to ask you this. You gotta go and I ask you this question a couple of years ago, and I wonder if your thoughts to change because I asked you and it's all said and done. When we're talking about just basketball, who will be well, who would this error

be remembered by? Curry or Lebron James? Who will go down as the guy for this error? Just basketball? Nothing else, nothing outside of the court, nothing just on the court. For me, I can't separate that. I have to say Lebron. But it's exactly because of what you don't want me to touch on. See, when they talk about Lebron, you can't avoid talking about everything. When you talk about Curry, you can't help but talk about only basketball. There's nothing

else that he gives you. Lebron gives you more because of the issues he's willing to tackle, his willingness to speak out, how he's been a target by some people and what have you. Just basketball, Stephen ain't just only I think Listen Curry is a bad, bad brother. He's the greatest shooter who ever lived, no doubt about it.

But the onslaught has come lately, Lebron has been I'm going with Lebron because Lebron came into the league with that kind of fan fear delivered ultimately with four championships and ten NBA Finals appearance straight. Yeah, but eight straight, no question. I heard you say something on the show. You said that you're talking about wild chambering and Bill Russell. You say that that you can't give it to will Over Bill because Bill titles. It's a good point. It's

a good point. It's a good point. I can't even front it's a good point. Jean Charlemagne, I can't deny it because to me, Curry's my favorite player. But I can test tell you as a guy that goes to the arenas man when when Lebron walks in, it's just a different field. It's a different As much as you love Curry and as much as you love watching Golden State, and as entertaining as they are, and I think he's the greatest you, who ever lived, greatest to you, the

god ever created. It's just that dude, right when Lebron walks into a building, bro it's a different animal to encourage. Repeat this year and gets will by the way, you know, I picked him. I picked him to repeat. What do you think? Then he repeats fifth three? Yeah? Got him? Okay, got him? Probably probably, especially if he doesn't beating him, especially if he gonna be there. I think they're going to playoffs though. I think they're gonna be all right

with Stephen A. Smith Straight Shooter. Pre order it now. We appreciate you for joining us, appreciate you gonna come up a little early next time. We got more comment man, I'm happy to you. Can I mentioned something before I go back. HBCU Week at Disney at Disney World. I'll be there this Thursday and Friday. Um, we just celebrating the Disney's involved with HBCU Week. In the last two and a half years, we generate over twelve million dollars

in scholarships for over two thousand students. So they're gonna be down at Disney World on Friday and First Takers is airing. We're televising the show live from Disney World on Friday for HBCU week, so check it out. Well, there you have it, Stephen A. Smith. Appreciate you, bro, Thank you this club. Good Morningst.