Stephen A. Smith uses Kash Patel to defend Memphis take on ESPN
"What are we talking about here?"
"What are we talking about here?"
"Would you prefer I go into detail about WTH has been going on in Memphis?"
"Instead of focusing on the performances we seen...we say sumn negative about a city/team on a national level"
It's not just LeBron and the Lakers driving NBA digital viewing.
"Maybe he should leave the celebrations where people might die alone."
Unfortunately, the final product was never uploaded to social media.
"Ja Morant spending way too much of the night crying...blaming his teammates, blaming the referees"
Ja Morant and guns are in the headlines again, and this NBA on TNT highlight package probably didn't make Adam Silver feel good.
Ja Morant added credence to the theory, returning from injury for Saturday's game against the Lakers.
"Mac might make me decide to dunk."
"OK, so Ja Morant's out. So forget that."
"If the NBA does not make a massive change, it is in huge trouble."
"I blacked out. I honestly did."
"We're just trying to ask you to work within the parameters of your employment in the same way every other person on the planet is expected to do."
"What's going on? Nobody asked him. Were you drinking? Did you have your full faculties in order?"
"Which NBA twitter account asked Ja Morant this question."
"I got nothing back"
"Are we the only sane people here?”
"When someone puts on a jersey, they’re no longer a human being"
"I think this was a cry out."
"We have some idiots, some fools, some jackasses on television that really just piss me off."
"Why are we trying to lay down the hammer on a 23-year-old who didn’t break a law?"
"I don’t think the issues they had were necessarily the same, but Jalen saw himself in this young man."
"It may be stupid, but I don’t know what he’s done to be suspended."
"This whole fake gangster theme that I thought we were past as a culture some years ago, I guess he's not past it, he and his. And it's just sad. It's sad."