Stephen A. Smith is apparently in negotiations with ESPN to become the highest-paid sports commentator, with a $25 million annual contract on the table.
After reports of a possible trade broke, Patrick Bet-David spoke with Stephen A. Smith on Smith’s podcast.
And maybe he was being a fanboy by flying a little too close to the sun.
“Tell me about your vision of what America should be,” Smith told PBD.
“What America should be,” PBD repeated, ignoring the question entirely. “You’re the greatest sports commentator of all time, right? You’re the GOAT. Everybody calls you the GOAT.”
Jason Whitlock is understandably confused by the praise.
“Is this a worthy classification? Is he the Michael Jordan of sports commentary?” Whitlock asked Steve Kim.
“I’ve never actually heard anyone say, ‘You’re the best ever in your field,’ outside of Patrick Bett David,” Kim says. “Will he be the highest paid? Will he be the most watched or the one who gets too much attention? Will he be the most public? Will he be the most ubiquitous? Yes.”
“But does that make him the greatest commentator of all time?” he asked, adding: “I’ve never thought he was the best. I don’t think he knows enough, to be honest.”
Whitlock agrees.
“When someone tells me they’re the greatest sports commentator of all time and they make $25 million a year, that’s what goes through my mind,” Whitlock begins. “This is all a rigged simulation. This is all the Matrix. And the people who subscribe to the Matrix are exactly like Patrick Bett David.”
“Is he with the same agent as Stephen A. Smith? That’s a completely nonsensical statement. It’s like saying ‘Jason Whitlock is the greatest bodybuilder of all time,'” he added.
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