Stephen A. Smith said that Trump “disrupted the mojo” that Knicks fan had been building and he should not show up to the NBA Finals Game 4. Smith made his remark in an interview with CNN, first calling him out over his disruption of the fan base ‘mojo’ and then pointing out that the New York Knicks have not won a championship in over 50 years:
“Well, if he’s not going to show up to game four, thank you very much for not being hard headed this time and listening, because you disrupted the mojo that the New York Knicks fan base was building for this team. It has been 27 years since the New York Knicks went to a final. It has been 32 years since they’ve had a chance to win a championship…And it obviously has been 53 years since they won a championship.”
Stephen A. Smith then went on to state that Donald Trump is a lifelong Knicks fan and that he knows what New York City has been through. Then he added that disruptions can happen in the sports world for the slightest reasons:
“Donald Trump was around. Donald Trump is not lying. He has been a lifelong New York Knicks fan. We saw him at the games all the time before he was running for president. All the time. He definitely is a New York Knicks fan… So he knows about the suffering. He knows what the city has gone through and he knows the slightest thing can disrupt the momentum in the world of sports.”
Stephen A. Smith added that Trump should be ashamed of himself and said that he did blame Trump for the Knicks loss in the game:
“He should have been ashamed of himself for disrupting that and showing up to the game in Game Three. and I do blame him for the loss because as far as I’m concerned, it disrupted the momentum…”
Stephen A. Smith blamed Trump for Knicks loss after their previous exchange of words
The above CNN interview in which Stephen A. Smith blamed Trump for the Knicks loss came after the two exchanged words previously. Smith had previously made it known that he was going to blame Trump if the Knicks lost their game.
In response, Trump said Smith was a nice person but he did not have the high IQ needed to run for president, which Smith did not have, seemingly implying that Smith has low IQ.
Smith responded to this statement from Trump with a message in he said that the players played better when the incumbent president was not present, and that the crowd was more festive when Trump was not present.
He also slammed Trump for shutting down Madison Square Garden, which caused damage to local businesses such as parking garages. Smith also criticised him for planning to attend Knicks’s NBA Finals Game 4 in that response.
Stephen A. Smith is a veteren sports journalist as well as being a radio and TV host. He has worked for places such as Greensboro News and Record and New York Daily News in the print media sector. He was the host for a at the WEPN station from 2005 to April 2008. Smith is currently the host of First Take on ESPN.
Alongside his career as a journalist, Smith is a actor, having his debut cameo on General Hospital. He also has had roles in films such as Creed III.
Edited by Soumyajyoti Mukherjee