Stephen A. names the REAL ISSUE plaguing the NBA … and it’s NOT tanking? 📉 | First Take
Stephen A. Smith, Chris “Mad Dog” Russo and Vincent Goodwill join Shae Cornette on First Take to debate the tanking issue around the league.
0:00 Mark Cuban’s opinion on tanking
2:46 Mad Dog’s thoughts
4:50 Stephen A. chimes in
7:43 What the Utah Jazz did
9:07 All-Star Weekend improvements
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26 Comments
ESPN stays with people who cant speak proper english. All DeI hires
They use LeBron to draw attention. This is why the NBA owe that man
nba is failing bc of the lack of accessibility. no one is getting all these subscriptions that's insane. thr nba is too greedy and it's gonna be it's downfall here's a list of the apps and channels that all pay for none are free. this is ridiculous and these sports "analysts" just bs us because they are Rich and don't see the problem. ABC, ESPN, TNT, NBA TV, NBC, Peacock, amazon Prime Video, ESPN App, NBA App, Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV, DirecTV Stream, Fubo, and nba league pass.
They got me thought they was gonna talk about LeBron..
Ledouche. It’s Leawful
Yall dumb as hell. Nothing about is statement said "Embrace tanking".
Maddog a real one
ESPN has NOTHING without Bron n thr cowboys
Jay z is in the epstein files, but bc of his racial privilege, liberal media won’t talk about it. Even tho it’s sports headline considering he runs the halftime shows. Gross corruption. Shame Disney.
putting lebron in this thumbnail is peak espn
You know what I find funny is this, Stephen A for years said when it came to certain players he didn’t care about the regular season. Before LeBron won, he’d have these rants about how he never cared about what LeBron did in the regular season because it was about the CHIP. LeBron would have a great regular season game and he’d say he didn’t care because it meant nothing. He now wants to reverse course when for years he devalued the regular season.
The NBA problem is players just get paid too much money on guaranteed contracts… I think its that simple
Stephen A just has venom in his snake mouth for Kawhi. Someone says something nice about the Klaw then they are just waiting on his response and every time he digs himself deeper into the viper pit and they laugh at his vomit.
Every possession in a NBA game is a 3 pointer or drawing a foul. Theres nothing to watch, same boring predictable game everytime. Im surprised people pay for tickets but glad its not me
If the bottom 8 give the best team the 1st pick and so on and so fourth so the worst gets the 8th pick
Hey Stephan lmk when u figure it out. I want to be home n get paid too
Stephen a just want people on the show he can control
Dude is saying your team purposely losing isn’t a problem. Stop it
As long as a team can be terrible and bank on the draft. So that means get rid of the draft.
I mean, I always known the NBA was fake probably faker than WWE….. but now Cuban is just straight up admitting it
the real issue is gambling
6:00 since when did these owners stop understanding COMPETITION IS THEIR PRODUCT!!!!! SMH I blame this on Silva and LeBozo
9:44 he a WHAT DOGGY!?! 😂😂
Mad Dog nailed it!
Cuban benched Kyrie and Luka to protect his pick from the Knicks which ultimately turned into Gafford
As a consumer of the NBA, the issue is the level of competition. When Kobe Bryant played, I never missed a game because the competition was intense and now the business of the sport has taken over the entertainment.