Stephen A Smith says as long as he’s alive on First Take, he will NEVER let Rich Paul downplay Michael Jordan’s greatness to prop up LeBron 👀 “It will never happen as long as I’m breathing, and I’m doing First Take. You can scratch that dream my brotha. It’s... never, ever, ever going to happen… You can try that nonsense some place else. It’s not working because it all comes back to First Take baby. And I’m right here”show more

@GEEZUS_69 Ah yes Lebron vs MJ the morning after the NBA Finals are officially set, classic ESPN

Yeah, but he downplays LeBron’s greatness to prop up Mj. Please get this 🤡 off tv.. he’s exhausting

Ok 😂 let’s debate about this empty trophy case 🤡

Mind you this nigga has been doing what he saying rich did for 20+ years

Oml they make it seem like Jordan is such a flawless athlete that played 6 years

He is so easily manipulated into showing he's just a Jordan schill.

Someone has to give me an valid explanation on how the MJ played in a more difficult 90's era than Lebron's 2010's when in 94, the Bulls won 55 games and lost in game 7 of the eastern conference second round WITHOUT MJ, but, WITHOUT LEBRON, the Cavs went 4-23 from 2015-2017. The Miami Heat from 2011-2014 went 9-9 without Bron. But, somehow, the Bulls won 55 games in 94 without MJ? Huh?

Elevating Pippen brings Jordan down, Its starting to make sense why so many MJ fans ghost Pippen's accomplishments

😂😂😂😂 he telling yall clear as day even tho he does it to Lebron to prop up buddy

Them MJ checks keep rolling in at ESPN

Rich Paul is doing damage control because he knows the GOAT debate isn't going LeBron’s way. He’s just parroting whatever LeBron tells him to say. That claim is honestly embarrassing.

Rich Paul is supppsed to be bias, he’s Bron business partner… he’s not a member of the media and not required to be impartial. SAS, however, is a member of the media with credentials requiring him to be impartial but went out of his way to slander LeBron and prop up MJ

So ppl can prop up Mj, but not LeBron?! #FOH

So it’s ok to prop up mj.. but not Bron? 🤔

Says the guy who ran anti Bron propaganda with skip bayless for over a decade! The second someone else says the same talkin points they say about Bron and needing teammates they all get butt hurt and insecure 😂😂😂😂

@stephenasmith when he gets a chance to speak on MJ....

And that's cool but why is it a problem for someone to have their own opinion on basketball matters when @stephenasmith and @RealSkipBayless have been controlling the conversation for v years. It's disrespectful for others to have different opinions. The double standard is lame.

His life’s mission is to prop up Jordan. 😂

Who is the most annoying and averse to facts? Flat Earthers or Jordan Deniers Both ignore facts, both make up their own measurements, both are lunatics beyond reason.....

I’m getting sick of this shit, man. Every fuckin year LeBron gets knocked out the playoffs, somebody makes some wild ass statement attacking MJ’s legacy, and in the meantime it pulls attention from a legend in the making in Wemby, and the Knicks being back in the Finals since 99

100% keep up the good work. Rich is a clown when it comes to this

As far as I am concerned Stephen A. and Rich Paul are just two sides of the same coin 🪙 one just glazes MJ in order to put down LeBron and the other just glazes LeBron to put down MJ. As far as I’m concerned they are both pathetic.

The current NBA is like amodern battlefield: AI, asymmetric and info wars, non-physical key terrain. Meanwhile, SAS is still trying to argue that Mark 1 was better than B2 😂

He said he’s winning the Glaze off no matter what!!

I don't even understand Rich Paul's point. Everyone has a somebody. But look at Pippen's inverse...Not only didn't he win without out Jordan, his coach didn't even call his number to take game winning shot in a playoff game... LOL

I mean Rich Paul didn’t lie. If you got rid of Scottie and didn’t adequately replace him then yes Jordan wouldn’t have rings. But… eventually Jordan would’ve gotten a co-star.

@RichPaul4 you are the puppet of LeFlop

It is the same, neither player could win without the other ain’t nothing wrong with that ain’t no I in team 🤡

No one gives a damm about first take, the entire show is literally joke.

But stephen A has downplayed lebron for the past 20years now. Now they have a platform to do jus the same but in favor of lebron

Rich was wrong, but Stephen A does the same thing. Instead of appreciating both, we’ve turned this into a toxic discourse. These a grown men actually like teenage boys

Rich Paul is right. I don’t see MJ getting past Pistons without Pippen. People are forgetting how valuable he was. He could do it all, as a slightly less athletic version of Bron. The media spent years downplaying his talent in order to elevate MJ. No wonder he hates him.

Nobody fkn cares @stephenasmith You ain’t gotta LET anyone do anything. You got nothing to shut a real MF up. Your takes rebuttal themselves they’re so ass

Bro thinks he the kingpin of podcasting Lmaoo