What's up everybody?

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stephen A. Smith Show coming at you over the digital airways and YouTube and of course IHeart Radio, as I love to do at the very least three times a week.

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Once again, that straightshutabook.com to get yourself a copy.

If you notice, you see over my shoulder, it's always

straight shoot a media, or at least periodically, because that's the name of my production

company, which is named after my book, of course, my bestselling book, New York Times bestselling

book. Very, very lucky to have that happen for my life, my career. Anyway, let me move on and get

to the subject in hand, because we've got to get started with the story that crosses both sports and politics.

We'll get into the NBA playoffs a little bit later.

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