PTFO needs to investigate ESPN next

I can’t wait till we as a community just stop posting Steven. No matter the reason or topic.

One day.

How does one blackmail an owner that agreed to do these deals in the first place 

They love protecting the rich owners. The greatest trick billionaires pulled was getting regular fans to side with them over the players. And ESPN is a huge part of that.

Nike basketball doesn’t like Jaylen, there’s Stephen a to attack.

A billionaire needs cover? There’s Stephen a to attack.

Stephen a is an exceedingly craven and transparent man

ESPN needs to go off the air

Parrots for the rich gonna parrot.

That isn’t blackmail lmao

Stephen needs to ask someone to explain blackmail to him.

Why do we listen to this guy

SAS also went in on Kyrie for his vaccine stance while simultaneously trying to compell people to give Dana White grace for getting caught on camera hitting his wife in public at a sports game.

I’d pay actual American dollars to remove Stephen A from my life in perpetuity.

I am dreading the day he announces he’s running for office and the clown show that will follow.

There are a couple main reasons SA characterizes it this way. 1) Him and ESPN are partners with the NBA owners. Shifting blame away from the league and onto the players gives Silver cover to punish Kawhi and go light on Ballmer. 2) SA craves power and has been vocal about getting into politics. Which if he is to do that he will need billionaires like Ballmer to finance a potential campaign. 

Lets talk about how the clown SAS 🤡backstabbed his peers as they got laid off and his salary increased

I bet Steven A is taking under the table money from owners to make hit pieces like this.

lets all just stop paying attention to him for our collective mental wellbeing

What do you guys think they paid him for? He’s doing his job

This is old and should be removed.

Stephen A Smith is a piece of shit? What??? I did NOT see that coming!

It’s funny how, if the allegation are true, Kawhi and Uncle Dennis also brought schemes to the Raptors and Lakers and they declined to oblige. Is that blackmail?

How can I mute any posts with Stephen A Smith?

Just go away.

Stephen A. Smith is such a loser - he’s a rich asshole who plays patty cakes with fascists and other rich assholes because he’s looking to make money off of his braindead conservative political takes.

The only billionaire he’s ever not caped for is Dolan, just because he gets views shitting on the Knicks. Kawhi and his camp obviously are at fault here but leave it to this clown to be the mouthpiece for the capital class whenever he can lol

He must actually be serious about that political run. He’s already carrying water for billionaires

I see what you’re getting at, but you should remember that Kawhi had been asking teams for this stuff for a long while.

He isn’t a victim here, he found somebody willing to play ball in the same manner. He had the leverage.

Yea i don’t really care about this stuff, how can I filter it out?

Something tells me Stephen A has one of them
Daktronics “endorsement deals,” too.

He blackmailed (checks notes) a bloody billionaire. Boardman really does get paid one way or another. Gtfo

The road work ahead guy, really?

Gargle them balls, Stephen. Don’t forget the balls

Just one Stephen A sticking up for another. Nothing to see here. /s

Smith is a billionaire ball licker and he’s got zero shame.

Pathetic.

Kawhi had 1 great playoff run, and people treat him like the next MJ. It’s so odd how all his injuries and weird anti-social behaviors get overlooked.

if there was any integrity in sports journalism dudes like him wouldn’t even have a job

that weird argument with lebron where he was like shit talking on his platform and acting like he was gonna square up was crazy lol

SAS and skip bayless are two of the main guys that basically turned into caricatures of themselves and helped really muddy the waters

there was always shit journalists but they were the two that made the soap opera style clickbait infinitely more popular imo at least

Why exactly does Stephen A hate Kawhi so much?

At this point, are they just trying to prevent Kawhi from going to Toronto and ruining the 76er’s in the East. All so that the championship doesn’t return to Canada?

Stephen A. Scumbag.

All of the responsibility rests with the Clippers and Ballmer, all of it. Yes Leonard wanted to get cap-violating money, but his employer is the part of the league who is supposed to uphold the rules. It is 100% Ballmer’s fault and responsibility.

If you look real close, you can see the puppet strings on Stephen A. that Ballmer has attached

Stephen A and his bosses know who’s writing the checks. Of course this has been true for a couple decades.

It’s an old story of how a rich old white man comes to the city and gets taken advantage of by a street-smart Black man.

Any shred of integrity ESPN had went out the window the second they became paid shills for gambling websites.

ESPN: entertainment sports & propaganda network

The S is pretty loose at this point too

Stephen A Snake

Same dumbass opinion when ICE busts the door in on a restaurant and detains the illegal workers. The public blames the workers for breaking the law to provide for their families, but don’t blame the rich owners who facilitate the arrangement

Balmer pulled this nonsense with top prospects for his kids’ high school basketball team. He pulled this with DeAndre Jordan, it’s a pattern.

Stephen A Smith, billionaire defender

Fuck this tap dancing dipshit

Ballmer lining Stephen A’s pockets too lol

You telling me that the richest man in sports is just gona get blackmailed by some dude name Kawhi. Doesnt make any sense to me.

Why does ESPN need to suck off Ballmer so hard? Surely they are a big enough organization with enough contact with other billionaires that they could have a common sensical approach to this news story.

It’s not like it’s controversial or hard to understand. Fans of the clippers and kawhi himself (former fans at least, or fans of the 10 minutes a season that he plays) also seem to understand that you shouldn’t violate the salary cap. The case is very obvious, the only issue we all have been waiting for is the consequences / punishment for rule breaking.

Stephen A already had a reputation for phony opinions. He ought to be careful not to also get a rep for sucking off billionaires or there might not be anyone left to listen to him yell lukewarm takes.

His nose is all the way up Ballmer’s ass

This guy is an idiot but kawhi is equally to blame. It’s reported multiple times that kawhi and his uncle asked for many outside the deal favors/money. Ballmer made it happen. Both are to blame. Why doesn’t kawhi get banned for this? He took the money

Because he’s a big market shill and ESPN has a vested interest in the big market teams being good because it draws more eyeballs

He fr has only been vocal against Kawhi. Worst thing is, he’ll then preach “black power.”

Mods in this subreddit as spineless as Adam silver.  Ban this SAS bullshit. He is only here to protect his billionaire potential donors for the inevitable political run.

Fuck I hate the time we live in 

This isn’t even Ballmer’s first offense for this.

Kawhi blackmailed the Clippers but Aspiration scammed Ballmer. These stories don’t even add up.

This is entirely Ballmer. He’s the one with the BILLIONS of dollars. There’s a 0% chance he got blackmailed by a basketball player SAS is a 🤡

There’s another top post on this sub with SAS saying they should ban ballmer and take picks .

He worships the Orange Pedo. People need to start turning their backs on anyone who is comfortable with a pedo rapist con man. I don’t think that’s a really high bar. Why does anyone give two shits what a scumbag like this thinks or says?

Such a dumb angle. Obviously Kawhi wants money. Objectively speaking, Kawhi did not break a single rule and the clippers organization did. Trying to pin this on Kawhi is so foolish.

Oh no the Clippers were powerless & couldn’t say no to Kawhi after his two main suitors for free agency in 2019 made it clear he was asking for provisions that would constitute Cap Circumention… what was Ballmer & the Clippers meant to do?

Stephen A always gonna side w big business

All Smith wants is attention and we’re unfortunately giving it to him

Stephen A Smith is a clown.

Kawhi doesn’t sign checks to anyone esp not Stephen A

People still watch and listen to this guy?

Imagine if Kawhi check Stephen A like LeBron did in person; that would be hilarious.

First Take does Sundays now?

SAS is a company man, through and through.

Stephen has become the Bill Maher of sports talk. Both are insufferable.

I will say listening to his podcast with Pablo, he talked in depth that Ballmer being suspended from the league for a year is on the table.

No one has mentioned it and i seriously doubt it would happen, but in a just world he should the team. He has already done this shit before with DeAndre Jordan.

Bro doesn’t know the difference between blackmail and ultimatum

I love when I meet people that say he should run for president because then I know the exact opposite direction to start walking.

SAS is a complete and utter company man.

He has been coached by Ballmer’s PR firm

How does a mute sociopath and his greedy uncle blackmail one of the richest people in the world

Sometimes guy needs to stop talking 

Check his offshore bank accounts

All media members - sports, news, politics, and otherwise, are just mouthpieces for the rich to control narratives. This isn’t surprising.

Clippers had a notoriously cheap owner forever. They get a guy willing to spend and this happens? They just can’t win damn.

Trying to lock down a billionaire donor for his presidential run.

Balmer is a billionaire, why wouldn’t the media be afraid of going after him?

Stephen A will always shift the blame from white people, its what he does.

It wasn’t a blackmail, it was an agreement that Kawhi and Ballmer agreed due to Ballmer’s ego/desperation