🏀 ESPN: LeBron James, On ESPN, To ESPN: “ESPN.” /// Defector

“I know he’s going to be happy as hell when he hears me talking about him,” James said, to McAfee, about Smith. “He’s going to get home and grab some ice cream out of the fucking freezer and sit in his chair in his tighty-whities on the couch.” Rich imagery, and yes, Smith REACTED to the news Thursday morning with HARD TRUTHS. The substance of those truths is inherently uninteresting, though I find the form fascinating; Smith’s FIRING BACK exists alongside the ESPN NBA desk tsk-tsking James for his Windhorst comments.

LeBron James did something I thought was impossible. He got me to agree with Stephen A. Smith, because Smith is right and James is just a big baby who gets mad when people don’t cower to him and things don’t go exactly the way he wants.