A-Smith: James is a two-faced person in public and private, I don’t like that guy

Hupu News, October 21 Today, A-Smith, Carmelo Anthony and others talked about James on the 7PMinBrooklyn show.

A-Smith talked about his long-term conflict with LeBron James on the show: "Let me talk about LeBron. I don't like him at all. You have no idea what this guy can do to achieve certain goals - this goes back more than ten years. I think he is one way in public and another way in private. You may not see him being interviewed, and you may not see him being quoted directly, but he said to people If it had been up to him, everything he had done would have gotten to me.

If it had been up to him, I wouldn't be where I am today. It was really despicable and despicable. The day he walked up to me on the sidelines was the day the news of my contract extension with ESPN was announced. Look at the camera angle - he was there in the first quarter, but he didn't come up to me until the third quarter. This is 2025, and technology is everywhere. Now, that game was broadcast nationally on TNT. Why did we only have one seat? And that lens only captured his frontal expression, not my frontal face, only the back of my little head. I notice this because I understand that I often decide the angle of the camera myself - 'use this angle, use that angle' - that's my job.

You asked me if I felt like I was being ‘set up’? Of course it is. Yes, I do feel that way. He obviously thought someone was there to help him - and yes, that's how I felt. Okay, but no big deal.

I went on the show as usual the next day - I said, it was just a father's natural reaction to his son. That was Thursday, and then Friday, Saturday, Richard Jefferson was in Boston calling the game (he also works for ESPN), and we saw LeBron say to him, 'Man, when he When I say that was a father's reaction, I understand. ’

I thought at the time: Isn’t this talking about brownies? You're actually talking about yourself, right? So let’s talk about your part as a father.

From this perspective, he was later selected by the Lakers - congratulations to him, no problem. There was that father-son moment in the opening game, and Ken Griffey and his son were there, and I was there at that moment - I stood and clapped, and everything was fine. ask When did the question start? It was when Bronny went to play in the G League, and the next day JJ Redick replaced him in the first quarter of the game and asked him to guard Tyrese Maxey. At that moment you could almost feel someone drooling, waiting for a fight - Tyrese Maxey. That game became a nightmare.

I thought to myself: You can’t do this to him, but you can’t do this to our media either. Now you are asking us not to Covering the game?

The last straw for me was not him walking up to me on the sidelines. If you came forward and said, ‘LeBron is angry and he wants to talk to you in person,’ and I was in New York — what would I do? I would get on the next plane to Los Angeles in a heartbeat. But you turned around and went on ESPN's Pat McAfee show, which was the show that aired after my show, to 'call me names' on my channel? No . And why are you scolding me? You mean "I don't like him either"? OK, that's no problem. But then you throw in "I want to protect my family," and you create a narrative that way. I'm telling you, bro, I've never been disrespected like that in my life. That he was trying to portray me as someone who would attack other people's families - knowing that I had never done such a thing - made me extremely angry. I cannot describe how serious this offense was to me. "