ESPN's Stephen A Smith levels up LeBron James feud; pundit talks Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade HOF ceremony

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ESPN star Stephen A. Smtih raised his feud with LeBron James to the next level on Thursday, pushing back once again on the notion he ever got personal with the Los Angeles Lakers star.

Smith said on "First Take" in a 15-minue soliloquy that James "lied" during his interview with Pat McAfee and that he only talked about his son, Bronny James, in terms of basketball. Smith then laid out all the personal remarks he could have said about James, dating back to when Kobe Bryant died in 2020 and the memorial service that happened afterward.

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Stephen A. Smith on the ESPN NBA Countdown live set at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, on Oct. 23, 2024. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)

"If LeBron James wants to see me continue to cover this sport, or he wants to have a problem with me continuing to cover this sport, I suggest that he be happy with the things that I haven't brought up," he said. "I never brought up really and never really discussed why you were not at Kobe Bryant's memorial service. I never really brought up or discussed why you did not attend Dwyane Wade's Hall of Fame induction when that man was directly responsible for you capturing a championship for the first time in your career.

"I brought up none of that. I didn’t bring up the fact that even though, when people had asked, you had alluded to what had happened tragically to your son, and, thank God, he’s OK with his heart condition, I didn’t bring up that even though