Stephen A Smith: Trump had ‘no business’ being at Knicks-Spurs Game 3

[0:00] ALL RIGHT, HERE WITH A REACTION TO ALL OF THIS, HE IS THE STAR OF FIRST TAKE ON ESPN. [0:05] HE IS OUR FRIEND. [0:07] I WILL NOT EVER BACK OFF THAT, STEVEN A. SMITH. [0:10] OKAY, YOU TELL DEMOCRATS, WELL, IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU. [0:14] YOU TELL DEMOCRATS ALL THE TIME, DON'T GO, YOU KNOW, TAKING THE BAIT AND TRUMP DERANGEMENT [0:21] SYNDROME, AND THIS IS WHAT YOU DID. [0:26] HE HAS BEEN A NYX FAN LIKE YOU HIS ENTIRE LIFE. [0:31] HE'S GONE TO KNICK GAMES FOR DECADES AND DECADES. [0:34] THE NYX HAVE A SHOT AT THE CHAMPIONSHIP. [0:37] YOU SAID IF THEY LOSE THAT GAME, IT'S HIS FAULT. [0:41] THEN YOU BLAMED HIM. [0:42] THEY LOST. [0:43] NOW, NOW YOU'RE SAYING IF THEY LOSE THE SERIES, YOU'RE GOING TO BLAME TRUMP. [0:49] YOU HAVE LOST YOUR MIND IF YOU BELIEVE THAT. [0:52] I DID NOT SAY THAT LAST PART BECAUSE THEY WERE DOWN BY 29 LAST NIGHT, OVERCAME IT IN HISTORIC [0:58] FASHION. [0:59] ALL YOU DID BEFORE THE GAME. [1:01] THEY GOT THEIR MOJO BACK, OKAY? [1:04] BUT BEFORE THE GAME, I SAID THAT AND I STOOD BY IT. [1:06] HE HAD NO BUSINESS AT THAT GAME. [1:08] SEE, PEOPLE, THIS IS A HARD CONVERSATION TO YOUR LISTENERS OUT THERE. [1:11] BECAUSE, LIKE, YOU TELL ME TO STAY IN MY LANE WHEN IT COMES TO PARTICS. [1:14] YOU DON'T KNOW SPORTS. [1:15] YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. [1:16] FIRST OF ALL, LET ME BE VERY, VERY CLEAR. [1:18] WOULD YOU LET ME TELL YOU? [1:19] I'M GOING TO TELL YOU THE GREATEST NICKS TEAM OF ALL TIME. [1:22] YOU STRUGGLE. [1:22] YOU STRUGGLE. [1:22] ALL HE WAS. [1:24] I WAS LISTENING. [1:25] EAR galaxi. [1:26] I WAS LISTENING. [1:27] EARL THE PEARL. [1:28] LLEIGHTS. [1:29] EARL THE PEARL. [1:29] ??? [1:29] dak both Penguins. [1:31] So what you're going to do, ask a three-minute question, just start playing your music the minute I start answering? [1:35] You ain't getting away with that. [1:36] Here's the deal, Sean, okay? [1:38] First of all, let me be very clear. [1:39] I take no offense with the president coming after me the way that he did. [1:43] People go after him every day. [1:45] I certainly went after him. [1:47] He has every right to come back and clap back at me. [1:49] I'm a big boy. [1:50] I can take it. [1:51] He ain't phasing me one bit. [1:53] But this man was raised in Queens, New York, lifelong Knicks fan, knows about the suffering that spans 53 years. [2:02] And when you are a true sports fan, you know every little thing could disrupt the momentum. [2:08] You have watch parties outside, thousands of people. [2:12] You have rabbit fans inside. [2:14] People throughout the state, Central Park, Bryant Park, and throughout the state of New York are on fire. [2:21] The momentum is there. [2:23] Incredibly intimidating. [2:25] And what does this guy do? [2:26] He shows up. [2:27] They got to get rid of the watch party. [2:28] He disrupts the momentum and the fervor. [2:31] And that is why I blamed him for the loss to game three. [2:35] I said it. [2:36] But then you followed up. [2:37] And you said if they lose, you followed up. [2:38] Because he's a New York Knicks fan. [2:40] He's a New York Knicks fan. [2:42] You followed up and said if they lose the series, you will blame him. [2:46] Yeah, I did. [2:47] Before last night's win. [2:48] Yeah, that's how I felt. [2:49] And let me tell you why. [2:50] Let me tell you why, because after they lost game three. [2:52] That's on them. [2:53] Let me finish. [2:54] Let me finish. [2:56] After they lost game three, I thought they were going to lose game four. [3:00] And sure enough, they were down by 29 points. [3:02] So I definitely was blaming him. [3:04] Because there's nothing like they looked en route to a 13-game winning streak. [3:09] See, he wants to talk and call me names and go at all. [3:12] Donald Trump knows he had no business disrupting that mojo. [3:16] Not a New York Knicks fan. [3:17] Not a true New York Knicks fan. [3:18] He knows better. [3:19] But he was in 73 when Walcott. [3:20] He's the president. [3:22] He's been a decades and decades and decades long fan like you. [3:25] Because he's the president. [3:26] Time out. [3:26] I didn't know he was so superstitious. [3:29] Yeah, but here's the deal. [3:32] I'm not moving traffic. [3:33] I ain't got secret service and I got to cancel. [3:36] I have watch parties canceled. [3:37] And I'm not affecting the audience like that. [3:39] He was because he's the president. [3:41] That's what he did. [3:42] That's what he did. [3:42] Okay. [3:43] The watch parties were canceled by Mom Donnie last night. [3:47] They weren't canceled by Donald Trump last night. [3:49] He wasn't at the game last night. [3:50] Hold on. [3:51] Hold on. [3:51] Hold on. [3:51] Tell me. [3:52] Mom Donnie did it. [3:52] He shut down the watch parties. [3:54] Don't get me started with Mom Donnie. [3:56] Don't get me started with Mom Donnie. [3:58] He said, no, no, no, not mine. [4:00] Oh, hell no, no, not me. [4:02] Oh, no, no, no, he ain't putting that on me. [4:04] I wouldn't have voted for him. [4:05] I tell you that right now. [4:06] We ain't going there. [4:07] But the point is, thank goodness the New York Knicks came back [4:10] and Donald Trump didn't compromise the mojo permanently. [4:16] Because had he, I'd have never forgave him for it. [4:18] I'd have called him out for it. [4:19] So, if they would have lost last night. [4:22] But they got their mojo back. [4:22] I want to be clear. [4:23] They got their mojo back. [4:24] If they would have lost last night and lost the series, [4:27] your blame would have been on Trump. [4:29] I'd have blamed him. [4:29] Not the Knicks. [4:30] I'd have blamed on Donald Trump. [4:32] It would have been on Donald Trump. [4:33] Because 13-game winning streak, flowing, playing exceptional basketball until he showed up. [4:41] Come on, man. [4:42] You got to get all in. [4:44] There's certain things that I might do. [4:46] But if the New York Knicks struggle, then I might change it up. [4:48] I am as passionate about politics as you are. [4:50] Can you explain something? [4:51] Maybe you can explain your fellow Knicks fans. [4:54] They go crazy and get violent if they lose. [4:57] They go crazy and get violent if they win. [5:00] What the hell is that? [5:02] Why is that happening? [5:04] There's no excuse for it. [5:07] As far as I'm concerned, anybody who did that should have been arrested. [5:10] As far as I'm concerned, if a police officer or anybody in the crowd, [5:12] not only should they got arrested, they just got their ass kicked. [5:15] You know, you wouldn't have done that to Victor Wimbanyama or anybody else to their face [5:19] if you didn't have a crowd to hide behind. [5:21] And it's just emblematic of the lawlessness that's permissive in the eyes of some folks [5:27] out there that allow this kind of stuff to happen. [5:30] When somebody's arrested, let their ass stay in jail for a little while. [5:33] Let them stay there with the fellas and find out how unjoyful it can be. [5:37] Let's not make it so comfortable for them. [5:40] You know what? [5:40] We're a nation of laws, and people don't want to obey the law sometimes. [5:44] And this happens. [5:45] It's not just with the New York mix. [5:46] All right, let me tell you one thing. [5:47] It happens with various parades and stuff like that. [5:49] But it shouldn't be tolerated. [5:50] Not at all. [5:50] I'm not here to justify that. [5:51] All right. [5:51] So you think you're saying I'll meet Trump anywhere, anytime. [5:55] Just for the record, I just played Obama, went after me all the time. [5:59] And he never did an interview with me, never met with me, never talked to me. [6:04] Right. [6:04] And Donald Trump is not going to meet you either as hard as you might try to smoke him out. [6:11] Just how I probably could have brokered it beforehand. [6:15] Tell me, tell me, no, no, first of all, I don't care. [6:18] But secondly, and more importantly, I knew Donald Trump long before he ever became president. [6:23] And let me say this for the record. [6:25] That will shock your audience, okay? [6:27] What he said about me yesterday, you could call it cruel or whatever you want. [6:31] That's the first negative thing he's ever said about me. [6:34] Donald Trump has been nothing but nice to me for many, many years. [6:38] But I disagree with him showing up to the Knicks game. [6:40] And I said so. [6:41] Well, the first thing he said is you're a nice guy. [6:43] And if that's what caused him to react that way, he's entitled to that. [6:46] But he's always been nice to me. [6:48] But damn it, you know what? [6:49] I didn't like him showing up to the Knicks game, and I said so. [6:52] And I'm not taking it back. [6:53] That's how I feel. [6:55] He almost lost the series for us. [6:58] You've lost it. [6:59] All right. [7:00] Steve and I, we love you. [7:01] I'm telling you. [7:02] Up next. [7:02] All right. [7:03] Thanks for watching. [7:04] Check out my new podcast. [7:05] Hanging out with me, Sean Hannity. [7:07] The big interviews, the debates you won't get anywhere else. [7:10] Like and subscribe for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.