On First Take, Stephen A. Smith and Shannon Sharpe join Molly Qerim to discuss:
0:00 What needs to change for the Lakers?
2:00 Shannon’s thoughts on the 44-PT loss to the 76ers
5:00 Time to diagnose the problems
6:30 Russell Westbrook’s exchanges with fans
7:30 Stephen A.’s disappointed
10:15 Shannon gets animated!
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43 Comments
Lebron gets no blame?
Russell needs to remember he is our entertainment and he makes millions so man up.
Big market vs small 🤷🏼♂️.
Davis always plays great when he goes up against scrubs but against top tier players he always folds like laundry
Get Molly outta here her voice is annoying
Lebron needs more help
https://youtu.be/DdCUeCqTBkQ?si=3ALI8-AgKk7tyDWT
As a lakers fan, can I just say this league will be better off without Lebron just in the sense of, there are sooooo many players and teams that deserve attention but these shows truly don’t care.
Our best defenders are out injured. Give me a break🙄
Molly….. just moderate
The lakers needs to put AD at the 4 and get a real 5
Can we STOP talking about the bumAzz lakers? They're not even good and ESPN still wants to get on all 4s and MILK them 🍆
No fans should talk about the players family a no go zone those fans should be banned for life.
AD DYOP?? Hahahahahah
They run Zero offense-
Post more nba with Shannon plz
AD plays like a roller coaster
Lakers go, as AD goes……. If AD is playing good Lakers usually win, if he plays bad they usually lose¡. Too inconsistent
Embiid is so overrated regular season monster playoffs they become knicks
The lakers are gonna be in trouble when Lebron inevitably declines/gets injured
Shut up Molly
Anthony Davis gotta go. He literally has no heart
The leader is a hoe
Who gives a $hit what molly thinks…smh
A.D is not a Center. He a P.F. Soooo Lakers play small ball that doesn't work against Big Men A.D. at 4 Woods at 5 Hayes off the beach for either 1 … p.s. D.Ham wake yo a** up
Apparently you guys have not been to a Walmart to see cashiers getting abuse by customers, at the Driver’s license bureau civil servant getting abused it’s not just Sports figures and entertainers…stop thinking its only people that make 50 million a year…I just saw a cashier at a gas station get attacked for not checking someone out fast enough…it is not only you.
Lakers trash 🗑️ and Sixers and going nowhere either 😂😂😂
Simple in Lebron whole career its someone else fault
The National media in the US only cover the so-called big market teams regardless of their records.
Russ’s wife is sweet too.
Everything is about Lesteroid
Shannon sharpe is stupid… lakers are straight up trash.. i dont care who they put on the floor they was not beating my 76ers.. so keep eating lebums 🍆 shannon 😂
Both of these men personally are responsible for why Westbrooke is the way he is with the media Shannon and Stephen called out westbrooke after every game when he was with the lakers has a segment every day on him smh
THE LAKERS SUCK!!!!
Wish Molly would shutup
Losing by amounts like that means no effort
No team Jordan wuz on never lost by 44 pts !! Lakers are weak !!
Idc 6ers have more to prove to me then the lakers they haven’t even made conference finals
MOLLY MOLLY MOLLY!!! 💚💚💚
Dont go through even a half of season with this bs again this year. Get rid of ham now. Should of never brought russell back too.
Lebron will NEVER be the GOAT and Why!
1. Lebron and his 'BIG 3' of D. Wade and Bosh got totally Destroyed in the 2014 NBA Finals by the Spurs in 5 games. You can't be the GOAT and lose a Finals getting blown out by 15, 19, 21 and 17 pts in the losses especially when you had D. Wade, Chris Bosh and Ray Allen as teammates. Jordan's Bulls never lost more than one game in any of his 6 NBA Finals by a blowout and the worst they ever lost was by 11 pts. 2. Lebron has never come close to a 3peat and if Ray Allen had not hit that miracle series saving 3 pointer in the 2013 Finals. Lebron and his 'Big 3' would have been a pathetic 1-3 in the Finals instead of 2-2. Only 5 teams in NBA history have ever threepeated in the NBA Finals and Michael Jordan has 2 of those 5 threepeats.
3. Lebron got totally shutdown and held to just 8 points in an NBA Finals game by the Dallas Mavericks. Jordan never scored less than 22 points in a Finals game.
4. It has taken Lebron being in 10 NBA Finals just to get 4 rings. Jordan is a perfect 6-0 in NBA Finals and never was taken to a game 7. Lebron has lost 6 NBA Finals and his teams were swept 4-0 two times and he lost two other Finals series 4-1. Lebron was very close to being swept 4 times in NBA Finals. Lebron had 6 Finals losses before he could win a 4th title. STF UP with the injury excuses for two of his Finals series losses. Injuries are part of the game. There are many teams in NBA history who lost an NBA Finals with injured players. None of them cried about it and made excuses.
5. Let's not forget that Jordan might have been 8-0 in the Finals had he not retired for about 2 years in between the two 3peats.
6. Lebron has not even matched the greatness of Kobe Bryant's 5 rings in 7 Finals, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's 6 rings in 10 Finals, Tim Duncan's 5 rings in 6 Finals or Magic's 5 rings in 9 Finals. So GTF out of here even comparing him to Jordan's dominance.
7. Jordan led the NBA in scoring 10 times to Lebron's 1 time. Jordan was also the best defender in the NBA and Lebron has never been close to being the top defensive player. Jordan was an assassin/killer every game while Lebron has routinely taken games off and been a crybaby during his career.
The stone cold truth is…..
Lebron James will NEVER be the GOAT and nothing he does in the remaining few years of his career will ever change that fact!
#23 Michael Jordan will always be the NBA GOAT!
Why isn’t Stephen A talking about that bad man Devon Booker taking down his knicks
Let’s get one thing Perfectly Clear the Lakers have been at home for most them tournament games and they’ve played scrub teams