On First Take, Stephen A. Smith, JJ Redick, Monica McNutt and Brian Windhorst dissect LeBron James’ comments about his future after the Lakers were ousted from the NBA Playoffs.
0:00 LeBron James’ post-game comments
0:30 LeBron’s exchange with Dave McMenamin
1:30 JJ Redick thinks LeBron’s comments are genuine
3:00 Stephen A.’s thoughts on JJ’s response
3:40 Windy respects LeBron’s words
6:30 Stephen A.’s thoughts on why LeBron James might have a change of heart
9:15 How bad would it be if there were TWO sweeps in the Conference Finals?
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37 Comments
What JJ Redick said @ 11:00
Stephen A makes money from hating lebron he represent all the old heads whos been feed with nothing but television and nba script during his era. now people has internet and he still refuse to believe james is goated so that stephen A career would look better the entire 90`s players career would look better😂. despite it bejng the weakest era
Why does JJ have to go personal every time? Just talk about basketball. You’re in Stephan A show so be respectful.
Or maybe he's only saying that because they got swept 🤔
Lebron we all know you are coming back, please stop searching for attention. #8 ref needs his ref card taken away. Seems the more experiments a ref has the worse job they do. They get bias and start calling there own game and the NBA does nothing about it. 10 year rule. After 10 years of referring thank you good by. First step to fixing the ref problem. Broony is not making the NBA.
Watching how Lebron and the Lakers played against Memphis and the Warriors it was obvious they had almost no hope against Denver. Denver is superior in every position including guys off the bench. Denver turn it up a little in the 2nd half of game 4 and won a game where they played horrible the 1st half. Denver was only a -160 favorite to beat the Lakers in the series but shoud have been-400.
Monica looking so 🥰🥰..my gosh i like her more and more.
He just didn't want people talking about getting swept,
The longer LeFraud Blames plays and the less successful he is the less probability of more people being persuaded to believe that he is the goat. That’s why he said that. Swept 3 times, 1 meltdown, 2 losses 4-1 series, 2 missed playoffs. That’s not goat in my opinion
of course Lebron manages to make everything about him. Let Denver have their moment.
No retirement. Quit fishing, he out, nothing to talk about with him til next yr!
A year or two ago LeBron said that the Lakers season wasn't a failure after they missed the playoffs and had a losing record. Now he saying this season wasn't a success after not making the final. Bruh hilarious
Once again the diva wants to be in the spotlight and all the attention even after getting 🧹 In the ecf.
Has anyone seen Bozo, the diva sidekick??
What a joke!
I became a fan of JJ after this. Good job, JJ!
I feel kinda sad if Lebanon retires now. U know Russell has double digit championship titles. I really think LeBron could at least match Russell by getting to 10 losses in the Finals. Russell and LeBron would be the only 2 players in NBA history with double digit in the won loss column in the Finals. That'd be something worth playing for. No?
JJ should only do his podcast….
The only thing he was playing for was the scoring title this year. He’s a compulsive liar smh. If genesis playing to win a ring he would have taken ALOT more games off through the season. Liebron
YOU CAN TELL WHEN ITS TENSION BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE,JUST LOOK AT HOW MANY TIMES THEM 2 PEOPLE BLINK. 😂
The way stephen a is in his feelings… 😅
I mean the dude is a billionaire he really don't have to play basketball no more
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Dont believe the hype Le Bron has too much pride to walk away and retire
What is SAS problem?
I wish SAS would have called JJ out when he talked about Winston Salem. If I was SAS I’d go str8 to the producers and tell them to make him publicly apologize or never step foot on FT again.
JJ makes great points
JJ said 3 games at Salem state
Nahh brahh stop 🛑
Lakers did good for beating the Warriors.. Unfortunately, the sad reality in any type of game is, YOU CAN'T WIN ALL THE TIME.. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.!
And it's mysterious for James to retire at this stage. He still in the finals.!
"Is Kyrie Irving the missing piece for the Lakers?" The American media is the most dangerous and most destructive force in the world. The same way they are able to start warfare by convincing the population while their democratic nation oppresses straight men.
I'm so glad the video cut off that rant! He's just saying whatever simply to disagree!
Retire while you can or you might get seriously injured that will force retirement
LeBron is more likely to switch teams than retire
Lebron don't got nothing else to prove to be honest ❤ he won 4 championship's ❤🏆🏆🏆🏆💍💍💍💍what else you got left to prove ❤🎉
It’s possible James knows his son isn’t good enough to be drafted after a year of college ball and therefore knows he doesn’t have enough gas in the tank to stick around long enough to play with his son.
He only averaged 22ppg in the first round and 24ppg in 2nd round I think the others helped him alot they just didn't have enough in them plus they were inexperienced so LeBron better quit all that crying he got carried them first 2 rounds
Stephen A in some ways just repeated what JJ already said lol. Yet, as he’s done before, he passive aggressively spoke about JJ’s comments ie to say he “didn’t understand”?? SA and his condescending melodrama, to me, is repulsive. My initial impressions of JJ’s take was “wow, he’s sharp and thorough”. Unlike SA I clearly understood him.
Might as we leave his time is over could have won some games against nuggets if he would pass instead of trying to be big shot and lose it he whines flops and poor baby has to play more than 10 minutes a game
I don't have any issues with Redick. I love it. And if anyone thinks he's being disrespectful. Go back and watch Stephen A and Max during their time together. People thought Stephen was disrespectful to Max. You can argue Redick is a perfect match for Stephen A.