godkiller
"We are the Fury"
Start at 8:20. Stephen A. Smiths says that African American players hold black reporters to higher standards, refuse to talk to black reporters who report the facts and in doing so hurt black reporters' careers:
Stephen A. Smith: "African American athletes hold black reporters to unfair standards and hurt them"
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So he says that black reporters can (and probably should) identify with black athletes given the black struggle/cultural similarities. But his argument is that it shouldn't skate over the facts.
Yeah, and no black athlete claims it should skate over the facts.
Does he really think that when white reporters comment on white athletes, there isn't some sensitivity granted in covering their stories...given THEIR cultural similarities?
havoc
Superstar
Stephen has been in sport commentating business for many years; he should have enough sense that athletes having conflicting issues with reporters have nothing to deal with race. Most athletes don't respect reporters, because they perceived them as annoying, unrelatable, and naive. He could have delivered his point that athletes need to respect reporters and they have to understand reporters need to their job without c00ning.
Black athletes don't fukk with him, but he wants to add other black reporters into his argument
Nah its actually the opposite, when that shyt with KD went down the True Hoop dudes on ESPN had a segment on it on their podcast and a Warriors reporter said once he started going out on the road and traveling to cover games he was shocked to see how many athletes flocked to Stephen A to chop it up with him after games. shyt, look at Kam Chancellor having SAS break the news that he was coming back. Don't understand why these athletes fukk with this dude so hard when he shyts on them so hard on a regular basis.
hoodheronova
All Star
this right fukin here. Either way, there use to be a code of conduct in sports media. Athletes would shoot the shyt, but only if the reporter left certain things out. A you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours type of deal. But social media has destroyed this relationship. When ESPN gave SAS that 3mill? He decided that his job to c00n was more important than his relationshipsHold up, doesn't he hold black athletes to a higher standard
How so when this super duper sell out got put on in philly, best damn sport show and ESPN because he was able to get interviews from top notch black athletes in the NBA.
If what he says is true he would have never been able to get interviews.
Anyway fukk this dude......David Aldrige is one of the most loved brothas in the NBA by players and built his career off getting info and interviews with the biggest black NBA stars for over 20 years.
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H. Selassie
Black Royalty
Fiction.
There have been black athletes who will only speak directly to Stephen A to grant exclusive interviews or send a message to respond to stories about them. Allen Iverson, Terrell Owens, Joey Porter, and Shaq come to my mind off top.
When T-Mac retired from the NBA, he thanked SAS for being a "Voice for the Black Athlete."
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he talkin about dez feelin comfortable gettin at black reporters 
but when this c00n gonna feel comfortable generalizing white athletes like he did black athletes here? 
its crazy i never heard anybody on a stage like that talk about white athletes in the same way
nikka acting like sports writers got a hard job anyway
and he assumes that everything sports writers report is just the facts and not loaded with bias tho
but when this c00n gonna feel comfortable generalizing white athletes like he did black athletes here? its crazy i never heard anybody on a stage like that talk about white athletes in the same way
nikka acting like sports writers got a hard job anywayand he assumes that everything sports writers report is just the facts and not loaded with bias tho
He's also saying "some black athletes" but won't call anybody out.he talkin about dez feelin comfortable gettin at black reporters
its crazy i never heard anybody on a stage like that talk about white athletes in the same way
and he assumes that everything sports writers report is just the facts and not loaded with bias tho
Looks like unnamed sources.
We need a Chris Broussard smiley on here.
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