Draymond Green not talking to me over LeBron…
LeBron James isn’t the one one who appears to have an difficulty with how Stephen A. Smith has been talking about Bronny James.
In a long diatribe on his show, “The Stephen A. Smith Show,” the sports activities media character stated Draymond Green was one of the athletes who’ve stopped talking to him “primarily because of this, I suppose.”
“When I think about somebody like Draymond Green, and I’ve kept my mouth shut about this for a while, but without getting into too many details, Draymond Green has felt the need to go to other people to say how he feels about me,” Smith stated during the newest version of his show. “And, I bought mad love for Draymond. Draymond is a good brother that, fairly frankly, I’ve at all times tried to be good to. And this shift in his emotions about me — I bought it. But I’m gonna get to a larger degree. You see, one of the explanations that I had so many great relationships on the earth of sports activities over the years is as a result of if cats had a downside, they known as me.
Stephen A. Smith addresses the scenario between him and Draymond Green. Stephen A. Smith Show/YouTube
“Silly me, I’m thinking that if you get along with people and you talk with them, if they have an issue with you, at least they’d call you and confront you man-to-man before something’s resolved.”
Smith has not been shy about talking on a quantity of completely different topics, together with LeBron James and his son.
James confronted Smith during final week’s recreation between the Lakers and the Knicks, with video of the exchange going viral online.
Draymond Green is pictured during the Warriors’ recreation towards the Hornets on March 3. NBAE by way of Getty Images
Smith has been crucial of James’ choices round his oldest son as Bronny has struggled during his temporary stint with the Lakers.
“I am pleading with LeBron James as a father: stop this. Stop this,” Smith stated on Jan. 29’s version of “First Take” on ESPN. “We all know that Bronny James is in the NBA because of his dad.”
During the show, Smith stated that he and James “don’t really f–k with each other,” which is why he was specializing in talking about his scenario with Green.
“It’s primarily been ‘hi’ and ‘bye’ for more than a decade — and I’m fine with it, and so is he, OK?” he stated about James earlier than returning to the meat Green has with Smith. “But that wasn’t the relationship with me and Draymond. That wasn’t the relationship with me and quite a few cats. And one of the biggest reasons that I loved the kind of relationship that we had, is that I always got the impression, ‘Yo, if they got an issue with you, they’ll call you.’ You talk it out as men and if you disagree, you part ways, even if you part ways not speaking with one another, or you can be agreeable, or you can agree to disagree.”
Smith bemoaned how the factor between Green and himself caught him off guard, however summed up issues by saying, “It is what it is, you know?”
Damn LeBron stepped to Stephen A Smith👀👀👀 pic.twitter.com/ZJIDcPU4dL— LegendOfWinning (@LegendOfWinning) March 7, 2025
Green discovered himself feeling the anger of basketball followers final week after he insinuated that Karl-Anthony Towns didn’t play in a current recreation between the Warriors and Knicks as a result of he didn’t need to play towards Jimmy Butler.
Towns later revealed that he missed the sport to attend the funeral of a close household good friend.
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