THIS SERIES IS OVER 🗣️ Stephen A. on the Lakers after Ja Morant’s injury in Game 1 | First Take
Stephen A. Smith and Kendrick Perkins react to the Los Angeles Lakers’ Game 1 win over the Memphis Grizzlies.
0:00 Impact of Ja Morant’s injury
4:17 Kendrick Perkins’ thoughts on Game 1
8:24 Stephen A. holds the Grizzlies accountable
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45 Comments
Austin rivers wishes😂 bros washed
Dam Stephen A. really blasted Elvis for absolutly no reason 😂
LeCAP LOL "I knew from the beginning"
I get concerned for Perks health every time i watch these. It's not normal to hear a man breathing like that dawg. That's the sign of an unhealthy and unfit individual.
Better start using steven adams to throw a body at someone
I'm happy Morant got injured hoping it'll get worse cause that kid needs to be humbled.
Hachi stepped up too yesterday
Darvin Ham hope you're listening. Should run offense through AD on the post just like when Shaq and Kareem. And let him decide to shoot or distribute. Until you have the game in hand. He's that dominant + he can shoot free-throws. Sad to see the big man hustle back on offense and never touch the ball or have to run right back on defense because someone jacks up a three as soon as they cross half court
Austin Rivers? 😂
1 game and stephen a loses his mind
STOP CALLING HIM AUSTIN RIVERS ESPN, YALL SUM CLOWNS FR
I believe grizzlies play a lot better without Ja morant. Watch them win game 2
game 1… and its OVER? These media morons are nothing but hyperbole factories.
After a game 1 win, stephen a always declares, its gonna be a sweep or the series is over, and not a single time that he is right, and by the way he recently says that the clippers season is over after the paul George injury 😅
Lmao never call Reaves Rivers again the disrespect
Ja or not, I had Lakers in 5, love to see Rui and Reaves shine!!
I hate this! Now it’s gonna be a “if ja morant played…” THE LAKERS WERE BEATING EM WITH JA ON THE COURT TOO….
Now all they gonna do is make excuses..
Ja are y’all still good in the west
Did yah forget the grizzlies play better without ja or yah just slow lakers winning year but series’s ain’t over
SAS needs to leave sports alone and go into politics. That’s the only place all his flip flopping can be excepted.
Kendrick "Sigh" Perkins
Jah checked in early, b4 he got hurt
As a laker fan we don’t claim SAS
The series ain’t over even if Ja don’t play Memphis won a lot of games without him taking their foot off the gas is a way to get beat
Why did the Jazz and Wizards have to make those dumb trades? They bailed out a team that should never have been bailed out
The media is so FULL OF SH*T! Don't switch for the Lakers now, WE don't need any of y'all!
Reporter: Any doubt in your mind your going to be able to play Wednesday’s game ?
Ja: YEAH
At some point you gotta realize that Ja's reckless style of play is a problem. Both injuries he's sustained in the playoffs is because he's doing too much. Why are you trying to dunk on AD in a playoff game? Take the floater. Why are you trying to cross up two defenders on GSW? pass the ball. These "freak injuries" are a direct result of him not making high intellect basketball plays and if it doesn't stop, it's just going to get worse.
Hate to see players go down injured but this is just Memphis’ karma catching up
Love the content… But Big Perk, you good my brother? That heavy breathing still calls for concern lol
As someone who's from Memphis, Stephen A. saying they should have billboards of Ja instead of Elvis is the most blasphemous thing I've heard from him in quite a long time. Ja is great, but you speak Elvis's name in the same breath as Michael Jackson.
Stephen a be switching up
Stephen A…. You're wrong. AD's durability is not the only thing we question. We question his motor and desire to be great on a nightly basis too.
No griddy 👍
omg…im crying a river for memphis…..lakers and their stars have been hurt plenty but no excuses….whoever can suit up play….if you cant watch the game like the rest of us!!
The GrizzQueers
how does perkins have a job still lol
Ja saying with everything hes been through this season like 80% of it isnt just self inflicted stupidity
Why is Perkins on ESPN?
He only graduated high school🤔💭📖📚
Because he dead 😂
One game and it’s over huh? Lol. If Ja Morant is hurt maybe but what Nakamuri and Reeves did won’t be replicated again
Bro picked the Grizz tho 🤡🤡🤡
People say Bron don't play defense 😂😂😂😂
All these flip flippers smh
Perk hit that last point on the head. The Lakers got 4 guys who can have a Rui game on any given night so it doesn't have to be him, but Bane, at the beginning of the season people were legitimately asking if you and Ja were the best backcourt in the league and you're out there getting your shot pinned off the backboard by a 38 year old. Shut up and man up.