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Stephen A.: Players canceling the NBA season would hurt people they’re trying to help | First Take

Stephen A. Smith, Jay Williams and Max Kellerman join Molly Qerim Rose on First Take to debate whether NBA players should not restart the 2019-20 NBA season, as suggested by Kyrie Irving and Dwight Howard, and instead focus on social justice issues.

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28 Comments

28 Comments

  1. Petrus Edward Jr.

    June 15, 2020 at 6:38 pm

    These players have a contract and job to do. They just want to keep their money without doing the work

  2. Pursuit of happiVince

    June 15, 2020 at 6:38 pm

    The 1 time it’s okay for Molly to interrupt, thank you for clarifying 👏🏽👏🏻👏🏿

  3. Nick

    June 15, 2020 at 6:39 pm

    iF yOu DoNT VoTe fOr JoE BiDEN He ThINks YoU AiNT BlACK!!!!!

    • FIU Student

      June 15, 2020 at 11:54 pm

      Nick: Biden is so out of touch

  4. Ananias Andrada

    June 15, 2020 at 6:48 pm

    Why do these NBA playeres that want to make political protests now accept money from the communist dictatorship in China?

  5. Olatoye Gureje

    June 15, 2020 at 7:05 pm

    I get what Kyrie and Dwight are saying. The momentum is stronger now and if they don’t ride this wave it might just fade.

    • FIU Student

      June 16, 2020 at 2:29 am

      What wave? The protests/riots have been decreasing lately already. Everyones going back to work already.

  6. Derrick Brown

    June 15, 2020 at 7:21 pm

    Go Ahead Molly

  7. Cj Curling

    June 15, 2020 at 7:46 pm

    Max has a point…where the riots takes place at is near court houses and police Precincts… the city and large businesses own them blocks

  8. Joe Oneha

    June 15, 2020 at 8:51 pm

    Man, I wish Molly is not with this show! Can’t stand listening to her!!

    • get1shotted

      June 16, 2020 at 2:28 am

      She spoke facts fym

  9. Jeff Fu

    June 15, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    These people talking about ideology that separate the country as a whole of America. If you keep saying you are an African American(clearly you are a mix racial American and no African would agree with you) This is the problem with racial issues. You can’t dictate others for the freedom of speech, because An Irish person will still have an Irish view on topic of things, An Italian will still think he is an Italian, A English will still be a British way, A Scottish is Scottish, A German is thinking German way, A Nigerian thinking is different than a South African thinking, A Jamaican is different than Bahamian, Angola is different than Sudan, Japanese are different than Korean and so on….. You can’t change the way other people think about their roots from different culture and languages. If you keep talking about skin colour lighter white or darker black, it basically separate everyone and they will be thinking more about their roots of nationality than talking about being an American!!! Stop dividing Americans!!!

  10. sarcasm 360

    June 15, 2020 at 9:59 pm

    Bread and circuses

  11. Javon Polk

    June 15, 2020 at 10:05 pm

    Yeahh I can’t side with Smith on this one.

  12. sarcasm 360

    June 15, 2020 at 10:06 pm

    Molly got my respect today

  13. SuperPunch76

    June 15, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    When I hear these players get together and talk about starting their own black owned league then I’ll take them seriously or the top black high school players going to HBCU’s.

  14. Simone Bonsignore

    June 15, 2020 at 10:18 pm

    Keep the politics off the program… I’d rather listen to a proper debate rather than quick mentions of events and a lack of depth in the discussion

  15. TRJ2241987

    June 15, 2020 at 11:11 pm

    A lot less people care about whether or not these leagues come back than ESPN likes to think. After all, this video is over 6 hours old, and doesn’t have 6,000 views? Reality – a LOT of people have moved on and don’t miss the league as much as you want to think…..I wouldn’t be surprised if ratings are even lower than the start of the season. In fact, I’d be shocked if they aren’t.

  16. Act Montana

    June 15, 2020 at 11:27 pm

    This gonna sound offensive but no1 wants to hear from Molly

  17. Troy Johnson

    June 15, 2020 at 11:50 pm

    Molly and Max are airheads and clearly missed Stephen A’s point 🤦🏿‍♂️

  18. Pidched RR

    June 16, 2020 at 12:01 am

    Steven A finally makes sense.

  19. Roberto Carreon

    June 16, 2020 at 1:11 am

    They should cancel the NBA!

  20. eatcheesekobe

    June 16, 2020 at 1:43 am

    I like how Max totally missed the point that SAS made of how if NBA cancelled thousands and thousands will not have a job which will ripple down and cause more harm. And of course, Molly hops on and takes the conversation completely off topic. Well done.

  21. Bars Up Dot Com

    June 16, 2020 at 1:53 am

    Oh man Stephen A with his FAKE preacher voice 🥱😴

  22. Gorilla 4Sale

    June 16, 2020 at 2:06 am

    Marx kellerman at it again

  23. ztr 245

    June 16, 2020 at 2:22 am

    It’s not just the injustice y’all forgetting about the covid-19 Breaking news Ezekiel elliott tested positive for covid y’all still think they should play

  24. CrystalLake84

    June 16, 2020 at 2:29 am

    People need sports 🙄😂

  25. Tom Ryan

    June 16, 2020 at 2:45 am

    Scrap it, resuming this season feels very forced.

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