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more NBA free agency to talk about more politics to get into but damn it you know what’s on my mind more than anything else OJ Simpson BET Awards really really Stephen A Smith show coming your way let’s go what’s up everybody Welcome to the ladies Edition the Stephen A Smith show coming at you at the very least three days a week over the digital Airways of YouTube and of course ihart radio as always I want to take a moment to show my gratitude to my subscribers and followers that have now eclipsed more than 76,000 I appreciate the love keep it coming and I’m going to keep on coming and let me not forget ihart radio in the last two and a half to three months there’s been over 1.2 million downloads on iHeart radio so I can’t thank y’all enough for the support the show continues to grow and grow and grow it’s shining more and more every day can’t thank y’all for the love and support keep it coming and I’m going to keep on coming all right to make sure you want to continue to like the show 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easily touched on yesterday um but you know I hadn’t seen all of the BET Awards uh but I saw it last night and I’m G to get started with that because this past week in the BET award something we look forward to something that’s been a ratings Bonanza give credit what creditors do uh this is a celebration supposedly a celebration of Black Culture music and philanthropy yesterday we talked about Will Smith’s performance remember that Usher’s Lifetime Achievement Award and subsequent speech remember that well today somehow some way I’ve got to talk about something else I noticed that caught my eye and I’m sure y’all saw it and if you didn’t see it I wouldn’t encourage you to go back and see it because I’m pretty pissed off about it did y’all see the in memorium segment paying tribute to quote black Excellence uh in terms of that we unfortunately lost this year the individuals that we lost the tribute included nods to luminaries like Clarence Avant Willie Mae Lou gossa Jr Dexter Scott King just to name a few okay however there was a notable Silence from the crowd when the image of OJ Simpson appeared on the big screen you may recall OJ Simpson died this past April after a battle with cancer yes he is known for being a Hall of Fame on the football field out of USC and ultimately with the Buffalo Bills in his NFL career but he was also a accused of double murder his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman back in 1994 the 30-year anniversary was just the other day last month June 12th to be exact OJ was acquitted of those charges in 1995 but later found liable for their deaths a few years later in a Civil Trial and the families of Nicole Brown s and Ronald Goldman obviously criticized the BET awards for paying tribute to Simpson as well they should I don’t blame them one bit and I’m going to say this to y’all what’s up what’s up see Jesse Collins production company same man that produced the Super Bowl halftime show phenomenal phenomenal producer produced the BET Awards okay Constance Orlando an executive VP no doubt she was involved as an executive VP for for bet Scott Mills um he runs bet as well he’s been doing an exceptional job I’m not here to cast any aspersions on them as individuals and the wonderful wonderful work that they’ve done over the years let me be very very clear it’s not for me to judge their body of work speaks for itself I’m just talking about this one thing and you know you got tari up there she’s giving an introduction paying tribute to all of this and then OJ’s face pops up on the screen and you can hear the audience again asked clearly everyone didn’t approve of that clearly most people were shocked by that and they should be ladies and gentlemen we got to call it like we see it in the most in the eyes of most people regardless of an acquittal OJ Simpson is a double murderer yes he ultimately was convicted in a Civil Trial and and and obliged to pay $33.5 million to the Goldman family which he never really really did till the day he died never happened but we all viewed him as a double murderer he was ostracized and considered a pariah by the vast majority of American citizens why because regardless of what people want us to believe unlike most situations unfortunately we saw a trial and yeah the glove didn’t fit so you must have quit and the late great Johnny Cochran pulled that off and I’ve had car Douglas the famed attorney working on Johnny Cochran’s team during the OJ trial on this show on a few occas and he talked about the preponderance of evidence that validated a civil suit against OJ Simpson but not necessarily a Criminal suit because they were Hol in the argument that were left by the LAPD and Beyond basically going out of their way to ensure that a person that was guilty in their eyes would be convicted and then backfired on them we know that story but in the end Nicole Brown Simpson is gone bronal Goldman is gone the Brown Simpson family Brown family rather is the around the Goldman family Fred Goldman who I’ve always had a strong level of sympathy for is still around and you’re OJ Simpson I know this is not popular to say and two of my boys because I love Ma and I love Cameron and I know what respect they have for OJ I’m not casting any aspersions on anybody like that they have their relationship with them and that’s their business more power to them my attitude is this OJ Simpson never gave a about black people until he was indicted never gave a damn you know you look at Jay-Z’s album I’m not black I’m OJ okay that was what OJ said I ain’t black I’m OJ never gave a damn never gave a damn about black folks until he was indicted on murder charges never gave a damn about black folks until he was ostracized by and large by society as a whole never gave a damn and it just amazes me how we would sit up there and and I’m looking at it forget the fact that in memorium he was celebrated he was mentioned what have you I mean I’m looking at it from the standpoint how should the family of C weathers feel how should the family of Willie May Fields how should the family of Bill Cobbs y’all don’t know about that fabulous actor that he was Ghost of Mississippi New Jack City and a plethora of other films that he was a part of he was a legendary figure how’s his family supposed to feel when they’re mentioned in the same breath as OJ Simpson think about that for a second the BET Awards I mean I know okay I know that it’s no longer owned by Bob Johnson I get that part I understand that I understand that in 2000 all right I’m just pulling from my notes here to make sure that everybody knows that I kind of know I’m going do my research here Paramount then Viacom 2000 they were sold by Bob Johnson for $3 billion we get all of that and I’m quite sure I don’t know this definitively but it stands to reason that black folks ain’t running a Paramount but you have black black individuals in charge of bet which is fair which is the right thing to do I’m just sitting up here absolutely positively flabbergasted that whether it’s Scott Mills whether it’s Connie Orlando whether it’s Jesse Collins or whomever how do we let that happen how do we let that happen and we got to call it like we see it there’s just no there’s just no reason to celebrate this man okay yeah he should rest in peace sure we should never talk about him again here’s the bigger issue we should never be given a reason to talk about him again we certainly shouldn’t be celebrating OJ Simpson I’m sorry not when two people were damn near decapitated and he was the Prime Suspect and we know that an overzealous Police Department effed up the case which ultimately got him acquitted because he had one of the greatest lawyers this nation has ever known and Johnny Cochran the late great Johnny Cochran OJ never gave a damn he hung around white people he lived you know that white culture he didn’t give a damn about his own ain’t nothing wrong with that want to go to golf clubs and be members of golf clubs and all this stuff and live a posh AFF fluent lifestyle hell we all trying to achieve that I know I am but what you never hear me say is that I’m not black I’m Stephen A oh I’m very black most of us are if not all of us I’m talking about in our spirit and in our soul it’s never something something we want to to detach oursel from that was OJ Simpson and when we do like this it stains all of us because we’re giving tacit approval for his alleged acts when we shove that aside this ain’t like the jury letting him off in a criminal case where they saw holes in an argument where they knew the LAPD engaged in unethical behavior and on top at all you had the backdrop of the LAPD and how they were treating citizens in La at that time and for decades prior to that which had basically sullied and alienated the black community against LAPD for years this is not that case this is the BET Awards this is a celebration of Blackness of black culture of Black Entertainment of black excellence and when you do something like this you got folks outside the community see see that see that TMZ talking about it NBC talking about it CNBC talking about it CBS talking about it USA Today talking about it PBS everybody but PBS when that kind of stuff happens how do you think that benefits us and that’s a story that we don’t get into nearly as much as we should did ever did it ever occur to anybody to remind yourself of the responsibility we have I’m not blaming any of the folks there in the audience they didn’t know and even though bet is owned by Paramount it’s still bet black folks everywhere all up in there and that’s what we celebrate we as a community are going to be held accountable for that subliminally subconsciously people going to look at us with raised eyebrows and think as a community oh you down with that you cool with that that’s what you celebrate the collective whole is what matters not one individ not one individual God Rest his soul God will deal with him because God knows what he did and what he didn’t do it ain’t for me to judge or anybody else to judge but we saw what we saw the trial was televised his actions and his dismissiveness and disassociation and distance from the black community was self-inflicted he created that he wanted nothing to do with us where’s this affinity for him where’s the evidence that he ever gave a about us I just don’t understand and I think that when it comes to something like that you got to guard against that I’d love to know if tmari knew anything about that cuz had that been me and they asked me to MC that segment and I saw that OJ was a part of it I would not have done it and if I was on that stage and his face popped up I would have been miked up on camera and I would have been like I don’t know whose idea that was but I don’t have anything to do with that I didn’t know that’s what I would have said now everybody ain’t me and I understand that and I’m not judging in regards to her or anybody else I’m I’m just saying come on come on we all suspect we know what he did but nobody definitively knows what he did but God himself OJ himself and of course the souls of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson so it’ll be for God to judge but I got to tell you that was a bad luck on the part of the BT Awards it really really was don’t get me started with all that twerking and all of that stuff I had to tell my daughter was on the phone with me I I made her turn the channel I’mma just leave it at that my teenage J I want her seeing that all that damn twerking and ass is hanging out and all nah nah but this stuff with OJ it can’t get much more classless than that and by the way it also begs the question right now if you’re the Oscars you GNA celebrate Woody Allen what are we gonna [Music] do if Bill Cosby’s name comes up eventually I mean it beg you know Harvey Weinstein stuff like that with other events it’s going to be interesting to see what other events do oscars Emmy stuff like that it’s gonna be interesting to see what others others do only last part I would make is this was Andre brow mentioned I don’t recall if he wasn’t he should have been and I don’t think he was I didn’t see it how is he not mentioned get on the bus along with various other movies he’s done over the years he was another fabulous actor we got a God who we celebrate ladies and gentlemen who we’re willing to celebrate sometimes is a reflection on us more so than it is on those folks especially when they’re gone and we’re still here sometime you really really needed to let them them rest in peace I’m just saying I’m just saying coming up Jason Tatum of the Boston Celtics gets paid Donovan Mitchell gets paid and what’s Paul George’s Legacy now that he’s left the Clippers I’ll get into all of that and more up next right here on the Stephen A Smith show over the digital Airways with YouTube and of course iHeart Radio back with more in a minute [Music] okay everybody you know what time it is it’s time 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Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest held every year on July 4th in Coney Island New York okay the reigning king and queen of the mustard yellow belt is a guy named Joey Chestnut who won his 16th title last year after eating 62 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes and Mickey Pudo who holds the record of 48.5 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs in 10 minutes okay and won her ninth title last year with 39 and a half hot dogs and buns eaten Lord have mercy I just want to see who’s going to take the crown with no Joey Chestnut there he’s not there this year so I want to see who’s going to take the crown since he ain’t participating so today I’m picking the number of hot dogs eating at this year’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest so let’s get right to it let’s get right to it will reigning women’s champ Mickey sudo break last year’s record with more or less than 40 and a half hot dogs eating I’m going with more okay she got more last year she got more than 40 last year why would I not think she’s gonna get more than 40 this year I’m going with more I’m going with more let’s go to the next one James web more or less than 46 and a half hot dogs eating I suspect less here I don’t think he’s going to get past 45 that’s just me that’s just me okay okay Nick weary more or less than 44 and a half hot dogs eating I’mma go with less with him too I just can’t imagine I mean Lord I mean and then to see them wet the bun while they EA the hot dog I like hot dogs but I like it on a nice Toasted Bun not a soggy bun I don’t know how they do it I don’t know how to do it and by the way I just don’t know how they do it I’ll leave it at that last but not least Gideon OG more or less than 37 and a half hot dogs eating eating I was tempted to say more but for some reason I suspect less with him too okay that’s what I’m going to do I’m going to go with less okay so basically that’s it that’s more plus less less and less that’s what I’m going with for this Fourth of July I’m guessing though it’s hot dogs I can barely eat two a month I can’t imagine somebody eating over 40 so forgive me will you welcome back to Stephen A Smith show right here over the digital Airwaves of YouTube and of course iHeart Radio let’s get to the NBA y’all because Jason Tatum of the Boston Celtics uh just agreed with the team to a deal yesterday making him the League’s highest paid player the deal is a 5year $314 million extension which is also the largest in NBA history Tatum led the Celtics to the 18th NBA title just a few weeks ago taken down at Dallas Mavericks in five games both he and Jaylen Brown who also signed a record deal last summer for about $34 million form arguably the best Wing tandem in the league today here’s the bottom line they’re Champions and when Jason Tatum won the championship that solidified this 314 Mion even though he’s gonna get it anyway so let’s get this out the way the second Jaylen Brown got $34 million the only way that jayen that Jason Tatum wasn’t going to get his bag and wasn’t going to get more than Jaylen Brown is if he had gotten hurt and suffered some catastrophic injury that was about it even with Jaylen Brown and his money Jason Tatum was the number one option Jason Tatum averaged 27 game Jason Tatum led the number one team in the NBA all season long they had the best record in the game okay and they were clearly the best team I don’t know why the hell I got caught up in Kyrie and Luca and how they were flowing but I know why I picked Dallas because I thought that porzingis would not be able to play at all in the NBA Finals I never thought he’d played games one and two I never thought he’d looked the way he looked in game one but I digress at the end of the day Jason Tatum is a star in this league he deserves every penny and with the climate being what it is the salary cap elevating to what it has elevated to with the salaries for NBA players escalating with cats getting 48 to $50 million and more normally you can’t knock anybody for giving Jason Tatum this money he’s not even 28 and Jason Tatum has been in five Conference Finals two NBA finals and he’s now now an NBA champion there’s nothing to talk about here he deserves every freaking Penny and he certainly deser he certainly can’t we can’t argue with this and he showed up in the NBA Finals too was some choke job now he didn’t have great games one and two but he showed up in games three and five I can tell you that much the brother bowled out and did what he needed to do and he deserves his dollars this ain’t news to me it’s long overdue and he deserves it now it’s going to be interesting to see that embiid and Paul George and Tyrese Maxi are in there let’s see what happens with that and let me move on to free agency where Klay Thompson ended his 13-year historic run with the Golden State Warriors yesterday clay agreed to a threeyear $50 million deal to play with the Mavericks alongside Luca donic and Kyrie Irving of course so it’s the end of an era in Golden state where Clay won four titles with the Warriors alongside the great the greatest shooter God ever created in Steph Curry and of course the one and only Draymond Green but this last season was especially tough for clay as his relationship with the franchise became strained over his contract discussions Klay averaged just under 18 points to season his lowest since his second season with the team I want to get to Paul George in just a minute because I wanted to get from from Jason Tatum to Paul George but I’ll get back to that let me say this about Klay Thompson I went back and I looked at some numbers I’m a huge fan of Klay Thompson I think he’s a future future Hall of Famer first ballot I think he’s one of the greatest Shooters we’ve ever seen in our lifetime top five shooter of all time I also think that if Klay Thompson hates the media for life I wouldn’t blame him because if you remember years ago when he was not voted on the all one of the all NBA teams if you remember that right the media cost Klay Thompson $30 million because Kell Walker was put on the all NBA team and Klay Thompson wasn’t and Klay Thompson was Furious about that and he should have been he should have been but when you hear about friction be between him and the Golden State Warriors that’s clearly Klay Thompson caught up in his feelings it really really is Klay Thompson under his rookie deal made about 9 million he signed a fiveyear deal with golden state thereafter that gave him an additional about $68 million if you remember in the 2019 NBA Finals between Golden State and the Toronto Raptors he tour his ACL okay was out for the entire season next season this was in June the next season he was out I forgot that that July when the Golden State Warriors knew that Klay Thompson would be out for at least an entire year they still gave gave him $191 million and then he tore his Achilles in a pickup game and was out not just for the 1920 2019 2020 season but ended up being out for the 2020 2021 season he got paid 32 and $35 million he got paid damn near $68 million for not playing a game so in the world of business ladies and gentlemen we can’t sit up there and look at a guy who was paid for not playing they paid you all of these years there’s been slippage in your game to some degree even though he did shoot 45% from the field and 41% from threo range and averaging about 20 a game after the allstar break this past season we can’t sit up there and look at Joe lob and the Golden State Warriors and act like they shafted Klay Thompson they didn’t Klay Thompson I don’t believe he believes that I think he wants a fresh start I think he sees kaminga and Pinsky he knows that’s the direction Steve CER wants to go in he also knows that his playing time is going to be compromised and he doesn’t want that problem he knows that Dallas needs Shooters so him leaving Golden State should not be that that big of a news him ending up going to Dallas that’s an obvious choice with Kyrie Irving and Luca donic and what they can do for you because obviously Derek Jones is no shooter neither as PJ Washington even though he can make some threes and so if you got clay out there he opens things up for Kyrie he opens things up for Luca plus he opens things up for Gaff and Lively so it’s it it’s a good thing here’s where the story should lie why the hell didn’t you go to California why didn’t you stay in CIA Califor and go to the Lakers could it be that he didn’t want to go someplace where at least it’s perceived that the Superstar is picking the coach and the draft picks AKA JJ reick and bronny James via LeBron James could that be the case could that be that Klay Thompson didn’t want to be in that predicament or could it be the fact that Golden State obviously they consider the Lakers AR they want Supremacy within the state of California and Clay didn’t want to do that to them I don’t know the answer to that question I just know it’s legitimate that LeBron James is willing to take a pay cut um and nobody that he wanted came James Harden stayed with the Clippers Klay Thompson went to Dallas how come the Los Angeles Lakers lefted by LeBron James and Anthony Davis to a lesser degree couldn’t get somebody to come to La I’m just asking I’m just asking let me switch to the back to the Eastern Conference because of the Philadelphia 76ers are you know they’re now considered arguably the biggest threat to the Boston Celtics after acquiring Paul George Allstar forward leaves the Clippers after five seasons and three playoff appearances where he couldn’t get La past the second round of the playoffs even though I say it’s kawh Lenard that couldn’t get them past the playoffs by the way but now Paul George joins joyel embiid and Tyrese Maxi is the six has look to be thrown the Celtics it’s simple for me I think it’s an a perfect fit for Paul George it’s a perfect fit for the Philadelphia 76ers I do think this move elevates the 76ers above the New York Knicks as being a number one threat to the Boston Celtics but I also don’t believe we should stop there we have an obligation to talk about Paul George who I love not just as a player but as a guy I think he’s one of the nicest people on the planet loved working with him by the way during the NBA Finals enjoyed that here’s the deal Paul George has missed 33% of his game in the clipp his uniform Paul George is one of the longest tenure players to have never played in an NBA Finals Paul George is also an individual that has averaged about 47 games a year up until this last season when I believe he played about 74 all right he played 74 games this past season first four seasons in Los Angeles averaged 47.3 games per season and by the way the Clippers have not won a playoff series since reaching the 2021 Conference Finals so even though I was on the record saying that Daryl Mory has the most pressure on him to make sure you feel the roster that can produce results to knock off the Boston Celtics make no mistake about it I did not mean to imply that there is no pressure on Paul George we saw one of the reasons the Sixers didn’t achieve is because of Tobias Harris not his game CU I believe bar Tobias Harris has game the problem with the B Harris is that he wasn’t aggressive he wasn’t assertive and he didn’t step his foot forward and be that aggressive individual that you needed him to be to take some of the load off of Joel embiid and Tyrese Maxi that was the problem with theas Harris and when you consider the fact that the Sixers were willing to let Jimmy Butler walk out the door in order to retain Tobias Harris that makes it even worse that he wasn’t willing to step up Paul George doesn’t have that problem 22 points a game 47% shooting from the field which was a career high 41.3% shooting from three-point range which was a career high over 90% shooting from the free throw line which is 90.7 to be exact which was also all a career high Paul George can be that dude because we know what he brings defensively and now you’re talking about him having the ability to defend the Jaylen brown or to defend the Jason Tatum that’s going to only help the the Philadelphia 76ers what that means is that Paul George has to bring the kind of game we know he’s capable of bringing in order to help the Sixers get over the hump he is not devoid of pressure and I did not mean to imply that he was I just feel more is on Daryl Mory because you still need a couple of other pieces but Paul George has to step up and get it done it’s just that simple so I just wanted to make sure that I said that and got that out the way before anybody convoluted or misconstrued my position by the way as an aside let me not forget to mention Donovan Mitchell he signed um 3 years over 150 million he’s going to get about 50 million a year from the Cleveland Cavaliers this means nothing to me Donovan Mitchell deserves the money I personally don’t believe that’s someplace he wants to stay he’s just making sure he gets his money first he could always ask out later and if you’re the New York Knicks or anybody else you might have some tradeable assets I love Donovan Mitchell I think he’s a number one offensive scoring option I think he’s a star in this league I think he’s good for 25 a night he is no joke he is worth the bag no doubt I just don’t see him staying in Cleveland I know he just signed I know he’s committed there but they all do just to make sure they get their money and then after that they ask out so I still think that next season will be Donovan Mitchell’s last in Cleveland but that’s just me that’s just where I’m coming from but I’m happy for him good guy star player deserves his bag coming up did the Supreme Court hand former president Donald Trump of Victory with its ruling yesterday I’ll get into that right here on the Stephen A Smith show over the digital Airways with YouTube and of course iHeart Radio back with more in a minute before I close out the show everyone knows I demand excellence and I’m in 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his conclusive and pre inclusive constitutional Authority the decision leaves it to the lower courts to determine if most of the criminal acts Trump was accused of in the wake of the January 6th indictment are official or not the ruling orber guarantees the case will not go to trial before the November 5th election are we surprised are we really really surprised but before I even get into all of that let me say this because as it regards Donald Trump he posted on social media because you know he always has something to say the minute he thinks anything Works in his favor within minutes of the ruling he said this big win for our Constitution and democracy proud to be an American that’s what he said no surprise there um House minority leader Hakeem Jeff Democrat out of New York in the statement reacting to the ruling uh said house Democrats quote will engage in aggressive oversight and legislative activity to ensure that the extreme far right justices in the majority are brought into compliance with the Constitution you see let me try to be a little delicate here I could say I told you so but I won’t we’re trying to act like the president is a normal person that have normal rules and reg regulations and laws applicable to them just like everybody else that’s what we want to believe okay that’s what we want to believe let me throw out a bunch of rhetorical questions for y’all do you as an American citizen just an ordinary American citizen have the right to declare war on a nation do you have the right to do that do you have a right to withhold weapons to another Power another country because you don’t like how they’re conducting their own War do you have the right to do most of these things that presidents can do like signing stuff in the law after Congress and Senate brings it to his desk you have the right to do that you know the answer to that question why are we acting like we don’t know the key to the ruling as far as I’m concerned by the six conservative justices is they were basically talking about his actions as a president he has the right to talk to the attorney general about whatever’s going on he has a right you understand if if he wants to declare war about somebody without worrying about being prosecuted because if you’re going to get prosecuted for something that might influence your decision to be the commanderin-chief and they’re taking that into consideration but rather than get into the technical mumbo jumbo of all of this other stuff it shows the damage when we’ve allowed ourselves to politicize our courts I’ve always been in opposition towards the president or any Administration picking Supreme Court Justices I think Supreme Court Justices should have term limits I don’t think they should be allowed to stay in office for the remainder of their natural lives or until they retire I think you should have maximum 20year window as a Supreme Court Justice every 20 years there should be somebody else up in there by law that’s what I think I don’t believe it should be selected by either party I think folks who are involved in the law I’m not talking about a legislative body I’m not talking about the house of Congress I’m not talking about the Senate I’m talking about separate and apart from them someone associated with the Judiciary should be deciding who Supreme Court Justices are and it shouldn’t be based on party affiliations it shouldn’t be conservative or liberal that’s my personal opinion but rather than get into all of that let me just say this it’s no surprise it’s no surprise and when you see Biden going off and you see aakeem Jeff taking the position that he had would he have said that had the ruling been in the favor of liberals that’s why we can’t we have to take it with a grain of soil we can’t trust any of them would you have said that if the ruling had leaned toward the liberal side we know what Sonia Soto mayoa said in her descent we know what Kaji Brown Jackson said in her descent we get that they’re liberals and they feel a certain way you’re conservatives you feel a certain way you’re conservative you don’t have any problem with this ruling for the most part well if you’re the liberal side excuse me what level of culpability are you willing to embrace because of this because this is the real reason I brought up the subject you understand ladies and gentlemen that the Democrats are making the same mistake that they ra they made with Ruth b Ginsburg now I understand that ARA Martin political analyst and what have you I love her I love her being on the show I understand what she said yesterday when I asked this question about Bill Maher calling President Biden Ruth beta Biden she said there was no correlation I beg to differ I emphatically disagree age with her let me remind y’all in rewind the clock it’s 2015 200 approaching 2016 Barack Obama is in office the Obama Administration desperately wants Ruth beta Ginsburg who had health issues by the way God Rest her soul but she had health issues at the time they desperately wanted her to retire so they could elect or select her successor for the Supreme Court she refused why did she refuse to step down because according to numerous reports she swore up and down Hillary rodom Clinton was going to beat Donald Trump in the election and she wanted Hillary rodam Clinton the first women woman’s president in the United States of America had that happened she wanted hard to be able to select Ru bet ginsburg’s successor and what happened Hillary rodam Clinton lost the election Donald Trump won Ruth b Ginsburg didn’t step down so years later while Donald Trump was in office she passed away God Rest herself and because she passed away Donald Trump was able to select her successor and to other justices and as a result instead of the majority being 54 because that’s what it would have been had rud B Ginsburg stepped down and Barack Obama selected her successor the court is now 63 what’s happening right now bidom shows up on a debate stage after months and months and months of scrutiny about his cognitive decline and what have you agreeing to a presidential debate that has never really been this early we usually see that after the Democratic or the Republican national conventions he goes and he engages in a debate prior to all of that clearly to prove a point and ended up putting forth an absolute disastrous performance to the point where the New York Times the Chicago Tribune the Atlanta Journal Constitution the New Yorker magazine along with various other folks within the Democratic party and what have you calling for him to step down and step aside so a KLA Harris a West Moore a Gavin Nome or somebody can step in and go for the Democratic nomination to win a presidency of the United States of America that is what is happening how do we not see the correlation Ruth b Ginsburg refuses to step aside President Biden refuses to step aside the Democrats go for it it cost them a Supreme Court Justice seat the Democrats are going for this now it may cost them the presidency how do we not see the correlation ladies and gentlemen I’m just talking about it I’m asking you I’m not even taking any hard and fast St as if I’m some definitive I have some definitive answer because I’m some offici no I’m an American citizen who pays attention and votes that’s what I do and I encourage you to go to the polls and vote no matter which side you’re voting for go to the polls make your voice heard don’t sit up there and be silent don’t be a participant in the process Barack Obama said it during his speech during the Democratic National Convention in in in 2016 you got to get in it you got to be a participant you can’t just sit on the sidelines this ain’t about yes he will it’s about yes we can remember all of that well you need participation in order for that to happen and also you need sense like common sense like paying attention in the CN the te leaves and understanding what’s going on here this does correlate Biden’s refusal to step aside does correlate with Ruth b Ginsburg and in that instance it cost you a seat on the on the courts for the Supreme Court and we see what has transpired since then Ro v Wade along with various other things things again I’m not taking sides I’m just telling you what the facts are and so now here we are again and what we got is a situation where we got to look at it and it’s like listen this is what it’s going to come down to it’s going to cost you to presidency and why is it going to cost you to presidency because you want to stay the course when staying the course has clearly worked against you in recent in the recent past you going to do it again you’re going to do it again good luck with that good luck with that let me get to my tweets before I get on out of here for the day please uh let’s see what tweets we got coming up here because I want to see what people’s got to say at just Kenny 8181 writes Stephen A Smith is it time for Genie bus to relieve Rob of his duties and give Bob Meers a shot what I’m gonna say to you is that’s a damn good question Bob Meers went to uccla he lives in California he’s a native there um and he’s an elite executive who has four championships on his resume kind of knows what he’s doing um I watch Rob palinka miss out on getting tyo I watched Rob pinka hire Frank vogle and then he’s gone I watched him hire Darin ham and then he’s gone in two years now he’s hire JJ reck I’m looking at the roster yet the mercy of LeBron James no matter how LeBron James tries to deny it I’m not saying that he’s making choices or whatever but this notion that he has nothing to do with the decisions that the Lakers make is a damn lie nobody believes that nobody so I don’t want to say it’s time for Bob Meers to replace Rob pinka but I will say Rob pinka is on the clock and he’s got things to prove because if it’s not good enough for Frank voger to win the championship and keep his job if it’s not good enough even though he didn’t want Russell Westbrook and others didn’t want Russell Westbrook there and I’m not talking about the Russell Westbrook with the clippers because I think he’s been fabulous I’m talking about the Russell Westbrook that had a disastrous stay with the Lakers but Rob palinka made that happen right because LeBron James wanted them to if Frank voger couldn’t keep his job and darham takes you to the Western Conference Finals his rookie year and then the second year he loses to the reigning defending Champions at that time in five games if he can’t keep his job well how many coaches we going to get rid of before we looking at Rob palinka so again I’m not advocating for his dismissal by any stretch but if I got a guy like Bob Myers out there it is legitimate to Simply ask the question how long do you keep him on the sidelines when you’d have an opportunity to have him how long do you do that sometimes it ain’t about the other person doing doing a bad job it’s about knowing what a great job this person can do because they’ve already done it that’s all I’m saying we’ll see what happens next tweet what do you got for me show me what you got let’s see you there at Ben Affleck Stephen A Smith what’s one piece of financial advice you wish someone told you I’ve always been told to save and invest my money but I also think that when I think about financial advice understanding risk that you want to take risk for everybody else is different some people are Renegades and they want to put it all on the line I’m one of those guys I’m relatively conservative in my Approach I will take risk with anything that doesn’t risk my quality of life so if I have a base number that I’m able to say this will help maintain and sustain my quality of life then I’m all for Taking Chances right up until that quality of life is in danger of being compromised at that particular moment I get conservative and I’m just not going to let that happen and so for me that’s how I look at it um of course you should save of course you should have a nest egg in a perfect world you should have six month’s salary in your bank account in the event that you can’t afford um you’re not making any money you’re unemployed or whatever you’ve been compromised a six-month Nest Egg for you to sustain your quality of life that is good um exceedingly good is if it’s at least a year because it buys you time to go out there and and get an additional opportunity before your stuff starts getting diluted but also the biggest thing is don’t live beyond your means that’s the biggest thing you can buy whatever you want to buy you can do whatever you want to do but make sure it’s within your means don’t spend excessively where you live in check to check cuz you can’t stop spending when you do that you have no discipline and inevitably you will fall because your habits are not good and that’s what you have to remember do we have any more tweets any more tweets right here two more to go before I get on out of here at MN 2024 wolves Stephen A Smith if the early bird gets the worm why do they tell you that good things come to those who wait because patience is a virtue and all that glitters ain’t gold yeah the early bird gets the worm fine I got all of that but you didn’t bring up the aftermath of all of that how it feels once it got the worm how the worm makes it feel was it was it did it satiate did it please you as much as you thought it would be was it as fulfilling Etc that’s not to say you wait forever but patience is called upon by the wise far more often than not and so that’s the way that I look at it that would be my answer to that question last tweet here what you got Jerald cormont Fort Stephen A Smith Stephen A Smith what would be Golden State Warriors title chances if they land a big-time player like Lori marinin well that depends on who they would have to give up um Lori marinin can ball I like him a lot um and with Steph Curry there they would be special and Draymond Green and his defensive crows they would be special kaminga and Pinsky there sure but chances are you’d have to give up something to get him and what you going to give up because it have to be a lot so you got to pay attention to that plus I personally believe Golden State didn’t have a chance against the likes of the denvers of the world the Boston Celtics of the world and others because Size Matters and I think they need a big so Draymond can do all the things that he does without having to guard siners and without having to preoccupy himself energy wise with people so much bigger than him if you remember when the Lakers when I’m sorry when the wariors were winning championships you had Andrew bogot in the middle you had jiaa pulia in the middle you had big bodies to throw out there so Draymond didn’t have to spend so much time flexing against these brothers that’s what you need you need some girth I think golden state has the greatest shooter God has ever created in Steph Curry I think they have a multitude of players on their squad who can really really ball um I think they have athleticism I think they have talent they clearly have exceptional coaching and I think the combination of all of those things they just need girth and if they have girth I think they’ll be just fine that’s the answer to my question I think they need that more than they need a Lori marinin but I get where you coming from because he can play and he would complement them very very well that’s it for this Edition of the Stephen A Smith show I want you all to make sure you enjoy your fourth of July and Beyond I’ll be with you later on this week enjoy your time with your family your friends your loved ones we only live once y’all live it up have a good time smile laugh enjoy your time with loved ones people that you care about and you know care about you okay don’t have a bunch of phony ass people around you smiling in your face but stabbing you in the back any chance they get you don’t need people like that in your life especially around Fourth of July that’s about to coming together loved ones friends families and everything in between that’s what you should be thinking about that’s what you should be doing okay in case you didn’t know I got to get on out of here I’m going to enjoy my fourth of July I hope that you all do the same I’ll be back with you on Friday this Friday with the Stephen A Smith show right here over the digital Airways with YouTube and iHeart Radio until then peace and love everybody