In this conversational YouTube segment, Draymond Green and his co‑host (Speaker A) dissect the recent on‑court confrontation between LeBron James and analyst Stephen A. Smith, which stemmed from Smith’s remarks about Bronny James. The dialogue moves from criticizing the media’s habit of labeling opponents as “weak” or “bullshit” to defending LeBron’s role as a father and emphasizing that personal attacks on a player’s family are inappropriate. Green stresses that analysts should focus on basketball performance rather than family dynamics, and he calls out the sensationalist tone of sports commentary. The hosts also discuss the broader narrative surrounding Bronny as a second‑round draft pick, arguing that the conversation should shift toward evaluating other young rookies and the Rookie‑of‑the‑Year race. They lament the WWE‑style drama that pervades NBA coverage, urging a return to respectful, substance‑focused discourse. Throughout, they highlight the positive community contributions of NBA players, positioning them as heroes rather than tabloid fodder, and conclude with a hopeful note that media reform could improve the sport’s public perception.
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LeBron confronting Stephen A. Smith, bringing your name into it. I don't know why he brought Draymond Green name up recently. He says LeBron James confronting him at the Laker game was some bullshit and it was weak. Talk that shit now.
Thank God.
So hold on, let me get behind the homies and let me go get over here. Let me talk my shit now.
But right. Listen, I think a lot of problems that guys have with media is to call something that that man did bullshit and weak. Like those are words like where we grew up.
Yeah.
Like you get hands put on you where we grew up and those types of words. So I think the problem that people have with media is you go on there and you like, oh, that's weak. Like weak? Like calling another man weak, like that's just, that's not basketball. Which is actually what Bron was saying in the first place. Like let's keep it basketball because calling a man weak, that's not basketball. And you're paid to talk about basketball. You call Bron weak for stepping to you, but you're taking shots at him as a father. On TV behind a camera. Most would say that's weak. And I know he'll say, I'm paid to do that. No, you're paid to analyze, you're paid to debate on the show.
You really paid to say whatever you wanna say as far as this game, whether you like it or not. But as a person, you should be lifting him up.
Absolutely.
You know what I mean?
Absolutely.
Like, 'cause LeBron, is a good dude. He do good shit. He a good dad. His kid made it. They doing, you know, they doing some shit. That's his story. You feel what I'm saying? And so you should be lifting him up and talking about the fact that this dude ain't got into no trouble.
Absolutely.
Right? Ain't got into no bullshit. But like you bring in, like I would say, the WWE, into basketball when you cross that line and talk about somebody's kids.
One time.
'Cause if it's my kids, bro, if it's my kids, I'mma catch you too.
As soon as I said it, I hadn't talked to Bron at all about this. As soon as I saw him say it, excuse me, Bob was up here that day and Bob was like, "Oh yeah, I work with Stephen A tomorrow. I got y'all game tonight. I'm in the studio tomorrow, something Stephen A." I think Malika. And I was like, "Oh, you make sure you tell Stephen A. that I have zero respect for what he said yesterday." You go on TV, national TV, calling out this African American, this Black father who's raised another successful Black young man, and you go on TV calling him out as a father because his son play in the NBA? That's ass backwards. You are on— T— national TV condemning a Black man as a father because his son is playing in the NBA. Like, how does that even make sense? And I told Bob that, I said, you should tell him, like, tell him, like, I can't respect that. Like, if you wanna talk about him as a basketball player, talk about him as a basketball player.
All day.
If you wanna talk about Bronny as a basketball player—
He makes jokes about Bronny as a basketball player.
Go ahead, he an NBA player. Talk about him all you want. Although I think it's pretty whack that y'all find time to talk about the 55th draft pick. The only, the only picks I can name right off the top of my mind that was 55th pick or lower was Manu Ginobili and Isaiah Thomas. You can't even name a 55th draft pick.
But they didn't get no steam until they start killing.
To see them just going at this man as a father. This man said, LeBron, you need to stop. As a father, you need to stop.
What?
Huh? And then you throw out the excuse like, well, he the one said that his Bronny's better than NBA players. You name me what parent don't think their kid is better than everybody. Like, that is a common theme for parents that's in sports. We all think our kid is better than what they are. That is the nature of the beast. My mama thought I was better than what I was. That is the nature of a parent in sports. But to go on TV and say, you need to stop it as a father, then go and he step to you about that and then say it's weak on TV. 'Cause the demeanor in person was like, that was demeanor in person. But then on TV you go, oh, that was bullshit. It's like weak. Like, come on, man.
So that's why he said Draymond ain't talking to me. He's gonna fix his suit. Yeah.
Like that's why he said Draymond ain't talking to me. And it's not that. You know, I don't have much to say to that. Like, also reach out to that man and talk to him after somebody say something to you because you know you wrong. So reach out to that man, talk to him. But he didn't. You didn't reach out, talk to him. That's weak. That's what we call weak. Where I'm from, the guys that I was raised by, the men that had an impact on my life, that's what we call weak.
Here's my issue with the Bronny situation. There are 54 picks before him and then there are like however many picks behind. We need to be talking about some of these young rookie dudes who need the light shepherding in the new wave. Like I like the Bronny storyline. I like to see when Bronny get in the game, I'm rooting for him too. I wanna see him score too.
Wow.
It's a storyline and it's a storyline of a lot of people wanting to see him make it, right? And him, you know, just like you said at the beginning of the show, it's like, man, I was just trying to make the team as a second round pick, right? This kid just trying to make the team. He don't care, no matter who his daddy is, right? He got his own basketball dreams, right? And it's his dream, not LeBron's dream. It's his own dream. So he trying to make the team and just so happened that that's his father. That's a great storyline. But there's so many dope young rookies that— Mm-hmm. We should be talking about Rookie of the Year debate, right? And talk about which one of these rookies. So now the young kids, you know, can be up on who Steven Castle is, right? They need to be up on things like that because now it's like, let's start talking about the guys who are gonna start to come into the shadows of the Stephs and the Kevin Durants, right?
Mm-hmm.
And a lot of this WWE,— or I would say like kind of Housewives, celebrity fuckery, excuse my language, is really kind of like where people getting out of hand. And then when you see them in real life, they shocked because they used to being behind a camera or behind a screen. You ain't got no real human interaction. And we know Stephen A. to be one of the best voices, and we all got— Absolutely. We all got relationships with Stephen A. And Stephen A. is one of the biggest voices in the media.
Absolutely.
You can be checked too, right? And it's okay that if you check, to man up and say, "You know what? I was wrong. I was checked." And not go and keep stirring the pot because this man can't really do nothing. Because you in the media.
I agree, 1000%.
Come talk about my kids, see, I'm gonna straighten your jacket, Draymond, you feel what I'm saying? I'm gonna get your suit right. I done yanked on me some, hey man, you know, you got something on your collar, homie, you feel me?
Tighten your jacket up.
Hey bro, they took everything from me not to button his jacket up. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? So shout out to LeBron for just being LeBron. And you know, for somebody like that to even take the time during the day, you know, and during the game, you know it's been on his mind, it's been on his heart. And this dude has been above everything, right? Above everything.
You don't see moments like that with him.
You don't see that, bro. And so for that man to go do that in the game, it's like, Man, that man was hurt. You hurt that dude, right? You supposed to be whatever it is, homie, when I see you, whoop. But when you do that, man, that's hurt. That dude is like, hold on, bro, you are attacking me. You did something to hurt me. I gotta let you know that we ain't— it ain't cool. This shit stop now, right? Before it's— before you start thinking that you can keep doing that. And so, I mean, the shit should just be squashed and Stephen A should really just accept that, that, you know, we as players, right, as fathers, like we gotta come home to certain shit. I remember when Russ was going through it with the media and he was like, "Man, I gotta come home to my kids and they think I'm a bad person because of what y'all saying in the media because of some basketball shit." So we got to learn how to separate that because y'all are heroes, right? Y'all are great people.
Facts.
Y'all do good in the community. You fund companies, you buy food for homeless. It's nothing that won't motivate and move y'all heart. So we got to treat y'all like heroes and not treat y'all like basketball wives or Desperate Housewives or some shit like that.
Couldn't have said it better, man. So hopefully these guys start to grow because I think the way our game is covered has a lot to do with the way the game is viewed these days. So everybody talk about there being problems in the game and ratings and all of that. The way the game is covered, the days of Amar'e Rashad inside stuff.
