Stephen A. thinks Draymond Green is ‘FLAGRANTLY WRONG’ about his Steph Curry remarks | First
One thing throughout this process that really hurt me I turned on the TV screen and someone uh Stephen A was like uh Steph is a bad leader because Draymond did X And it pissed me off but it crushed me it crushed me because because how is Steph enduring being a bad leader like this guy doesn’t give us anything to tear him down about this guy does everything the right way and yet he’s being tore down because my actions crush
Me okay Stephen A I know you a relationship with Draymond Green what’s your reaction to what he just said there he’s wrong um clearly he didn’t hear what I said um or he was listening uh to some somebody wanting to instigate something um that definitely happens from time to time
With a lot of athletes uh because they get stuff third hand instead of seeing stuff for themselves and interpreting it accurately um that absolutely definitely was the case here but before I go any further Shannon and Molly um I’m going to call on the producers could you
Please Heir what I said when it came to Steph Curry please so we can show the I understand that Steph Curry is not a vocal leader I get that but I gotta tell y’all something if this were LeBron James if this was the teammate of LeBron James we’d be all over LeBron James
Where’s the leaders ship where’s he at what kind of impact is he having I don’t think that we should be holding Steph Curry to lesser standards there’s a lot to this and step is not being blamed just like I’m not quote unquote blaming Steve CER whatever but there is no doubt that
Organizationally especially when it comes to the coach and when it comes to the star player that there appears to be that more should have been done did anybody hear me say that Steph Curry was a bad leader no nobody ever heard that come out of my mouth now they can try to
Allude to it all they want to what point I was making Shannon was that we hold LeBron James to excessive incredible standards correct the point that I was making was why isn’t that applicable to everybody else and if it’s not applicable to everybody else why don’t
We give this man a break see I can talk about LeBron James and you know back in the day when I I thought he was he was afraid to go to the free throw line or I thought he took jump shots when he should have been taking his behind in
The post and posting up smaller dudes like you see him do on a regular basis now Shannon sharp but that’s about it when it comes to his character as a leader and what have you when we talk about somebody that has been close to perfect who’s been more perfect than
LeBron James over the course of his illustrious career yet on time on too many occasions we held him to a stand that we held nobody else to so what I was trying to say about Steph Curry was I know you’re great and you’re a four-time champion you’re the Quint
Essential role model personified in every way shape form or fashion okay I get that but when something like this happened if LeBron James was Draymond Green’s teammates we would have said where’s the leadership so how come we didn’t ask that question about Steph now I know what Draymond was going because I
Spoke to him yesterday and I’m not going to talk about what he said specifically because we didn’t get into it that much we’ll talk about it at a later date but his mentality is that Steph’s name should have never come up I’m a I’m a grown man I’m accountable for me it’s my
Actions I’m the one to made I’m the one who made a mistake that’s absolutely fine what player do you know Shannon who wouldn’t say that about themselves as a professional athlete they’re not boys they’re men and they would say to you it’s me it’s not somebody to lead me
Somebody to tell me what to do it’s my responsibility it’s my job they would all say that but it wouldn’t prevent most of the media it wouldn’t prevent most of the critics it wouldn’t prevent most of the cynics for still pointing their eye or their skepticism in the
Direction of somebody they deem to be a leader that’s all I was pointing out and the only thing that I would like to say outside of that outside of the fact that it was flagrantly wrong I never said that about Steph Curry I never would say
That Steph Curry is a bad leader did I say at times it could help if he were a bit more vocal publicly as opposed to what he does behind closed doors sure but that’s just a preference that I have to sort of negate and quell some of the negative momentum that’s out there
Sometimes about Draymond or anybody else but I would never question the Integrity to character the leadership of a Steph Curry and I think that Draymond was wrong to I thought he misquoted me and I thought he was wrong about that but I also pointed the finger at Steve cerr
Because when you have grown men who are leaders who go about the business of trying to instigate stuff because they want to interpret things their way to manipulate a narrative it amazes me how passive aggressive they can get there isn’t a professional athlete and Shannon you know this Molly you definitely know
This there isn’t a professional there isn’t a person in professional sports that can’t get access to my number that can’t get access to me and they know if they sat up there and they really wanted to confront me or they really had something to say call me I’ll fly the
Hell of San Francisco to do it it’s not a problem I never said that I never would about Steph Curry and I was just unfortunate that Draymond Green uh thought that I did because clearly he misinterpreted what I was trying to say and that’s sad He
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24 Comments
You described him being a bad leader and want people to come at him. Just because you did say bad leader doesn’t mean you didn’t insinuated
Draymond quit being selfish work on yo jumper your Dennis Rodman antics is causing a smear on the frat curry's name
The world knows Steph Curry is soft so what’s the problem? 😮
Green still playing the victim card lol
Baaaaaaack it up baaaaaaack it up beep beep
Draymond: I’m hurt
SAS: you’re wrong
Stephen. A Smith is like the Bible always contradicting himself.
Stephen A talking in circles. Throwing around big words aint fooling us man
This ain’t about Lebron
Stephen a talks to much at times that’s it an that’s all Steph shouldn’t have been brought into it
lebron james aint the same as everybody else bruh what is stepehn a yappin about
SAS is going back his comments faster than his hairline…🎉
VICTIM MODE ACTIVATED
Draymond: it crushed me like I tried to crush Sabonis last year
What does LBJ have to do with this? This is getting disgusting, it seems ESPN can’t function without mentioning LBJ. Can you guys talk basketball with mentioning Lebron? If they start discussing about the divorce of Giannis and his wife, they will bring LBJ into it. They will say – “Lebron and his wife are still married “……
NOTE – By the way, Giannis and his wife are not getting a divorce, just an example. Just to,illustrate how LBJ is included in every topic, when clearly it has nothing to do with him.
semantics. you know what he meant stephen a. draymond wasn't even going at you, but you gotta make it about you.
The way Stephen A. Back peddling he should play DB in the NFL …
You questioned that man Leadership…(Steph the G.O.A.T)
SAS been fighting for his life lately 😭
please like this comment if you stephen A smith need to come out an issue an apology to steph curry for questioning his leadership
Everything circle back to lebron somehow😂
I'm getting tired of Stephen A's mouth
Stephen A is a double talking liar…
Delusional 😅
If someone says how they feel you don't get to tell them their wrong…