ESPN's Jay Williams is right. UFC Freedom 250 was a 'better event' than the NBA Finals

Jack Posobiec joins Will Cain to break down the historic UFC matches on the White House lawn & President Trump's insane endurance. Plus, a near perfect open from the U.S. Men’s team at the World Cup and the impressive politeness from Japanese fans.

Former NBA player Jay Williams attended both UFC Freedom 250 and the NBA Finals last week. According to Williams, the event on the White House South Lawn was the better event.

"I was there, 4,000-seat arena [for the UFC]. I gotta be honest, coming off the NBA Finals where I was at multiple NBA Finals games, better event than the NBA Finals," Williams told Stephen A. Smith on ESPN Monday. "It was a better event than the NBA Finals. With the White House literally being right there, incredible."

President Donald J. Trump and his family posed for a photo in the Octagon after the UFC lightweight championship fight. (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)

In a post Sunday evening, Smith said the UFC show "look[ed] spectacular" and praised UFC President Dana White.

Credit is due to both Smith and Williams, one of ESPN's top analysts, for discussing the event honestly. Much of the sports media would not dare say a positive word about the show, considering President Donald Trump promoted it as part of the nation's 250th anniversary celebration.

Presumably, there was too much patriotism and too many White people in attendance for some members of the sports media. Former ESPN host Jemele Hill even compared the event to a Klan rally.

"This UFC 250 event has the feel of a Klan rally," Hill wrote on Threads. "Just utterly disgraceful and disgusting."

Is that so?

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