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Stephen A. Smith CHASTISES LeBron for how he handled Dillon Brooks?! | First Take



Stephen A. Smith CHASTISES LeBron for how he handled Dillon Brooks?! | First Take

Do you have any issues with Brook’s style of play yeah I do um I believe you can play hard without playing dirty I mean some of the things that he does unnecessary guy has a breakaway dunk and he’s not trying he just shoves the guy

In the back as a demension and then he comes down to the clubs a LeBron size the head last year he hit Brown in the private area he just does a lot of things that’s unnecessary and I don’t believe that’s you know sometimes people say well that that’s that’s his style of

Play that ain’t no style of play bro you going to hurt somebody out there and if you know if that’s all they going to let you do if they going to let you shove guys in the back hell they can hire me just let me come in at 55 years of age

And I can do exactly what Dylan Brooks do guy gets him the Breakaway I can shove him in the back I can go up for a rebound pretend like I’m trying to get a rebound and Club the guy outside his head man that’s unnecessary that ain’t no that is not basketball oh that’s

Tough that’s physical that’s in the 90s they clean that style of basketball up if you want to say they played like that in the 80s and 90s okay I remember that but that’s not the style of play that they play now and the way he plays the

Game is unnecessary you could have hurt somebody because you can’t protect yourself when you’re up in the air and somebody shoves you from behind or LeBron’s trying to go up for a rebound and he makes it seem like he’s trying to get the rebound and then he comes across

LeBron heads with his left hand it’s unnecessary that’s not basketball you can’t convince me that’s basketball because I believe you can play tough physical basketball without being dirty and I believe he’s a dirty player that’s me personally that’s one element of it no disagreement there I don’t like the

Way Dylan Brooks did what he did last night there’s no doubt about it but sh Shay I’m very very surprised actually let me take that back I’m not surprised that you left it at that I’m not surprised that you didn’t go any further because I mean goat James far be it to

Far be it for you to smch him in any way Shay Shay I mean stop it the fact of the matter is this Houston whipped ass last night can we get that that’s not why they lost bro I mean I I understand that but what I said is you’re usually

Complete with your takes you were bit you sure changed your T the Lakers play Lakers was trash you Sayers was it’s nice to hear you say it because you should have said it at the start okay why wait a minute no don’t start that sh

Say I’m getting on you now cuz if it was anybody else and listen Kendrick Perkins what would we have heard sh Shay shanon sharp say you know what the with that you go low we go high you go low I go to the basement I go to the basement that’s

What he would say well Dylan Brooks went low why didn’t the Lakers go to the basement how come you didn’t bring that up Shannon shop you know why because you’re a little bit you get a little bit soft and sensitive when it comes to the goat James that’s why and I’m getting on

You about there and you hold on right there I like the glasses glass but the point is that’s what you do here’s the reality we all know Dylan Brooks who Dylan Brooks is we might not like it guess who knows it better than anybody the Lakers and LeBron James then what

You go out there and get your ass kicked for how come he scored 17 points how come they were busting y’all you know what how come they won the game by 16 points you know what you going up against this ain’t the first time Dylan Brooks has been Dylan Brooks Dylan

Brooks has been Dylan Brooks for years what did LeBron James do to Memphis in the postseason when Dylan Brooks was talking all of that smack last year they spent the closeout game up by 40 Dylan Brooks was like he ain’t scoring 40 I mean no you just got beat by 40 okay

They destroyed the Memphis Grizzlies and sent them home and class personified which is LeBron James what did he do he walked off the court of that playoff game am I right big perk walked off the court of that playoff game without even shaking hands or greeting anybody

Because he was so disgusted by Dylan Brooks and the way the Memphis Grizzlies were acting and so he smoked them and sent them home that’s what you were supposed to do last night but you did and by the way the Houston Houston Rockets are 22 and 24 the Lakers are a

500 team they’re basically one game behind you’re buying for this is a team that you have to compete with for one of the playoff spots you know this going into the game what you go out and get your ass kicked for so I get what you’re saying about Dylan Brooks no argument

There it’s absolutely true he doesn’t need to be trying that nonsense but he repeatedly does it you know he’s going to do it well what the hell are you going to do about it because I can’t see nobody rolling up the big perk or Shake

And do with a history of doing stuff and then you roll up in there and you do it again and get away with it because you know why because if they go low you gonna go to the basement you going to go to the basement per perk let me say this

But you have to understand Stephen a football we have a different mentality because if you do something like that to us we going to get your ass back I’m gonna get you or I’m goingon to get your teammate okay and when your teammate ask me why you what what what’s going on I

Say because your boy cheap shoted me and I couldn’t get him so I got you so somebody got to get this so don’t think but see see that’s but see that’s not LeBron LeBron is not wired see I wanted to keep it specific to the topic of

Dylan Brooks I just want everybody to know that’s not why the late Dylan Brooks shoving Jared vanderbelt him going upside LeBron head that wasn’t why the Lakers lost the Houston Rockets came out with a different mentality they kicked the Lakers butt the Lakers played like trash and the rockets outplayed

Them those two incidents didn’t have anything to do with the grand scheme of thing but I wanted to keep it specific to Dylan Brooks take off perk it had a lot to do with why the Lakers why the Houston Rockets bust they You know what last night Dylan Brooks is an enforcer

Dylan Brooks is a guy that you hate him if you’re on the opposite team you love him if he’s on your team look we saw early in the season we saw LeBron James and who get into it in the crypto.com Arena e may Oker damn it the Lakers knew

It was beef when they walked into that Arena last night and the Rockers was ready to make hamburgers actually they did so when I think about Dylan Brooks this is who he’s been this is why the Rockets paid him $80 million this is what he brings to the table tenacity now

The push in the back with Jared vanderbild I get all that yeah it was a bit unnecessary but damn it sh Shay he’s been showing us for years this is who I am he is the villain every single time he walks on the floor he Embraces that

Role and we know the tension that he have not only with LeBron James but yeah with LeBron James but we know the tension that the Rockets and the Lakers have now period so my thing is is this I don’t have an issue with how Dylan Brooks approached the game of basketball

I don’t have an issue with how he stares down his opponents and he antagonizes them I was one of them ones I was one of them enforces and damn it I actually love to see physicality sometimes in this in this day of age because I’mma keep it real

With you the league soft as hell the way guys are getting 73s putting up 70s and 60s and things to that nature I have to turn my damn TV off it’s a it’s embarrassment you know like look like no real talk when I was listen when I was playing in the era

Where you had rashed Wallace kg Tim dun and Shaq y’all mean like you know we used to have a model man look a person ain’t about to get their average on me man I’mma get ejected before somebody drop 40 on me I’mma get ejected Dylan

Brooks is is who he is and at the end of the day the Lakers knew what they were walking into and they wasn’t prepared for the fight absolutely and I have to get back to Shannon sha I I am so disappointed I can’t believe what I’m he

Kendrick Perkin this man is sitting up there our boy club sh sh this man is sitting up here to that’s football hell no Dylan Brooks is Dylan Brooks how come he’s inflicting harm upon others but somehow some way harm doesn’t get inflicted upon Him how’s he getting away with that how

He getting away with that but you have to understand the Lakers don’t have a guy like that so if you don’t have a guy like that you don’t ask LeBron to go take that out you have somebody hey Dylan Brooks come down the lane you go

Upside his head and you open him up like a melon and then you wouldn’t have to worry about Dylan Brooks no more LeBron is 69260 I understand somebody else need to do it but especially if you getting your ass kicked already what’s the harm and retribution the fact of the matter

Is you got to inflict that yourself when they when they go low I go to the basement I’m going keep reminding you that when they go low I go to the basement yeah but that Stephen go ahead go ahead perk go ahead no sh sh sh I just want to stop you okay

Because see Stephen A let me tell you he think he’s slick as a can of oil and right now he’s soaking this up see what later down the line at some point of this season we’re going to revisit that goat topic right and see MJ Jordan he wasn’t taking this type of nonsense

Would getting your face Jordan was those blows we go so when we come on here we when you come on here you got to be prepared and make sure you be conscious of what you say cuz he go he going use it against you but you have to understand but you

Have to understand that was the era when you had X-Men you had Anthony M man they cleaned that up they not going to let you you think Adam Sila go to let you go to let you put your hands around somebody let me answer that let me

Answer that uh uh uh uh uh supposedly goat James is goat James and as a result the rules are a little bit different if anybody can get away with it it would be goat James you going that let ask your question you remember when LeBron James got suspended when he caught Isaiah

Stewart with an elbow what happened Stephen oh please you talking about Isaiah you talking about that cat Isaiah running around by about 20 different people really you and we barely touched him barely touched him and open him up that’s what so guess what if he barely touch if you barely touched them

And got the blood you saw you saw what the damage LeBron James could do how come it ain’t happened to Dylan Brooks handle that handle that that that was an that was an accident that’s not LeBron’s emo that’s not his me that’s not his method ofandi that would be my method

That would be perk was the enforcer that’s what you have to have one of those guys on your M too that would be MJ too that would be MJ too but guess hey hey sh sh guess what yeah what happened the way it may be the way

It’s looking right now the Rockets and the Lakers could possibly match up in the play in tourament in the so LeBron so so but I’m saying so he needs to be ready because Dylan Brooks is not going to change even may you is not going to

Change e may you DOA call Brun soft he call S you don’t think what you rolling over here for what you going to do that’s what said I walked up on him I walked up on him and he ain’t do nothing oh please come on now

On First Take, Stephen A. Smith, Shannon Sharpe and Kendrick Perkins join Molly Qerim to talk through the Houston Rockets vs. Los Angeles Lakers.
0:00 Any issues with Dillon Brooks’ style of play?
1:40 Stephen A. Smith checks Shannon!
5:45 Dillon Brooks “is an enforcer”
9:00 Things get tense!

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36 Comments

  4. @michaeld.lancaster4953

    Oh poor baby Shannon did your fake g.o.a.t get hurt? Dillion Brooks in the past has some dirty plays but the hit on Lebron wasn’t that bad. I have seen worse

  6. @jones1926

    People that worship 80s 90s ball praise HACKS that don’t know what it means to shuffle your fit. And be fit enough to be able to defend. This ain’t wrestling or football.

  14. @STEP_BACK_3

    I don't think he's a dirty player he just hates LeBron. In general Brooks doesn't do that kind of stuff. Just look at the rest of his games. He's not out there getting flagrant fouls on a regular basis. but when it comes to LeBron he definitely give no f** and will slap or push LeBron first chance against

  20. @deleonfountain8220

    And this is why we keep telling y’all you NEED players like pat bev, draymond or portis.

    Remember when ayton was standing over a laker player and the first person in was pat bev to shove him off?

  30. @robbie5ify

    I hate that Stephen A Smith has become the judge and jury when it comes to sports. This guy hasn't even played at a level to speak on this stuff 😂😂 but that's the world we live in 😂😂

  36. @MichaelBrumagin

    Stephen A. Smith is an ignorant A-hole. Shannon Sharpe ANSWERED THE QUESTION that was posed. The question was about Dillon Brooks. It wasn't about how the Lakers played. It wasn't about the outcome of the game.

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