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“Stephen A Smith apologised to everyone, apart from me”: Kwame Brown blasts the analyst amid his racist comments against the Nigerian team and Shohei Ohtani

Advait Jajodia
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"Stephen A Smith apologised to everyone, apart from me": Kwame Brown blasts the analyst amid his racist comments against the Nigerian team and Shohei Ohtani

Kwame Brown blasts Stephen A Smith amid the hate he has been receiving for his comments about the Nigerian Basketball Team and Shohei Ohtani.

Die-hard sports fans, not only watch the game, they also like to watch the pregame & postgame interviews, and even what analysts and former legends of the sports have to say. Stephen A Smith is one of the most popular analysts in the business and has a massive fan-following.

Ever since he started his career as an analyst, he had the image of an entertainer with the sporting community. In several instances, Stephen A makes all his takes extremely controversial and sometimes even funny to get his viewers engaged. However, on his recent most episode of “First Take”, Smith’s comments were not even remotely close to being funny.

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“Stephen A Smith apologised to everyone else, but not us”: Kwame Brown

The ESPN analyst spoke about Shohei Ohtani, one of the future faces on the MLB, and his comments came off disrespectful. Smith gave his two cents and revealed that he didn’t think Ohtani was good at the game, only because the Japanese-born player didn’t know English.

The analyst just didn’t stop there. While reacting to Team USA’s first exhibition game, the 53-year-old mocked the Nigerian team. He didn’t even put any effort into pronouncing their names right.

Understandably, the entire sporting community is enraged. And SAS even gave a highly-required public apology.

During the course of Kwame Brown’s career, Stephen A Smith heavily criticised the 6-foot-11 big man. SAS even went to the extent of saying that Brown “couldn’t play a lick of basketball”. Well, just like any other player would, Kwame has taken all of Smith’s nasty comments personally and not shied away from repeatedly exposing the analyst whenever possible.

Yesterday, the former first pick of the 2001 NBA Draft decided to blast the analyst yet again. Amid the entire fiasco Stephen is going through, Kwame decided to blast the analyst even more. NBA Draft The 12-year NBA veteran threw a few unpleasantries at the analyst while complaining that Stephen A never apologized to him and his cult.

Yesterday night, Kwame went live on his YouTube channel and said:

“Stephen A, you a punk bit*h. What the f**k? You apologized to everybody else. I thought you said you apologized to the groups you offend. What about us?”

“I didn’t know anything about it (the Stephen A Smith incident).”

But after learning about the incident, Brown said:

“Oh well, he gonna have to apologize to the Asians or whoever he offended. But he’s not gonna say shit to us. He apologized to everybody else apart from us.”

Also Read: Bucks player goes off on the ESPN analyst for mocking a Nigerian basketball player’s name following win over Team USA

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Advait Jajodia

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Advait Jajodia, an NBA and Tennis journalist for The SportsRush, has had a passion for both sports for over a decade. His admiration for Kobe Bryant, Stephen Curry, and Rafael Nadal pushed him to gain a profound understanding of the sports. With a background as a multi-sport athlete, Advait uses his experience on the hardwood and the court to offer insightful analysis. Over three years of dedicated sports journalism has equipped the 22-year-old with a unique perspective, reflected in his prolific portfolio of 4,450+ articles.

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