{"id":131055,"date":"2025-03-27T10:33:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=131055"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:33:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:33:58","slug":"lebron-stephen-a-smith-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/03\/27\/lebron-stephen-a-smith-beef\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron vs. Stephen A. Smith Beef Reaches New Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you thought the LeBron James<\/a> vs. Stephen A. Smith beef would end, you are wrong. This might continue being the story of the week, if not the month. These two continue throwing virtual punches at each other, and for now, it seems like LeBron is winning. Looking at social media reactions and fans’ reactions, people are clowning Stephen A. Smith for his takes on the oldest player in the league.<\/span><\/p>\n

LeBron vs. Stephen A. Smith Beef Reaches New Heights<\/span><\/h2>\n

As things are going right now, it seems like LeBron managed to turn Stephen A Smith into the new Skip Bayless. Skip made a career of trying to trash James, and he retired from television before LeBron hung his sneakers. In what might be only described as the best new meme, LeBron was the last to post on social media last night. <\/span>On his Instagram account, LeBron posted a meme<\/a> of Stephen A. Smith practicing boxing. To understand the meme, we have to take things a little back.<\/span><\/p>\n

Charting the Timeline of the Recent James vs. SAS Beef<\/span><\/h3>\n

The original beef began weeks or even months ago when Stephen A. Smith went on national television discussing Bronny James<\/a>. He said the son of LeBron is not ready for the NBA, and begged the best scorer in league history to stop trying to push Bronny<\/a> into the league.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, when the Lakers hosted the Knicks, LeBron knew Smith would be in the building. Right after the game ended, he went to him and told him to back off Bronny<\/a> and stop messing with his family. The next day, Stephen went on national television to <\/span>talk about<\/span> the incident. <\/span>That is how we get to yesterday to what we can describe as the weirdest beef between a television personality and an NBA star.<\/span><\/p>\n

LeBron Blasting Smith on TV<\/span><\/h3>\n

First, it was LeBron going on Pat McAfee’s show and talking about Smith, saying,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s like on a Taylor Swift tour run right now. It started <\/span>off<\/span> with I didn\u2019t want to address it, yeah sure, I didn\u2019t want to address I wasn\u2019t going to address it but since the video came out, I feel the need to address it, it went viral. <\/span>Are you kidding me? If there\u2019s one person that couldn\u2019t wait for the video to drop so you can address it is your ass like seriously! He completely missed the whole point. Never would I ever not allow people to talk about the sport, or<\/span> criticize players about what they do on the court… But when you take things personally, it is my job to protect my damn household and protect the players. I know that he\u2019s going to be happy as hell, he\u2019s gonna be smiling from ear to ear when he hears me talking about him again. He\u2019s gonna get home, <\/span>and<\/span> grab some ice cream out of the freezer and sit it in his chair in tighty whities on the couch.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n