As they do pretty much every day, the folks over at ESPN’s First Take spent part of Thursday morning arguing over another NBA topic that has very little substance and is meant to rile up anyone who happens to be watching.
There are no winners in these moments when debate is embraced because winning isn’t the point. Being outrageous and loud and capturing attention is all that matters.
Stephen A. Smith did just that on the morning of Game 1 of the NBA Finals between the Celtics and Warriors, drawing the criticism of Kevin Durant by trying to answer the question of whether or not Stephen Curry made the NBA worse—which, no, of course he didn’t. But in his rant, Stephen A. said the real culprit who hurt the NBA was in fact….Michael Jordan.
