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Good day. What's going on? Everybody, welcome into first take on this Friday. I look

so small. I'm about to do snow angels. I do some snow angels in space. No one needs

to wear a mask because I am solo dolo. But I still got my guys with me. Dan Erlovsky,

great to have you as always. And I'm just wondering, is that the New York Times best-selling

author, Stephen A. Smith? Did you add the line to the bio? Here we, oh, we have you behind

me. Okay. Straight shooter. That's what I'm talking about.

Stephen A. Did I hear correctly that only Prince Harry sold more nonfiction books? I mean,

I was just hearing some things and I don't know. That's what they say. So I just want to

thank everybody who could have done it without y'all. I appreciate everybody's support

to the readers out there, the people that went and purchased the book, whether it was a

straight shooter.com or my audio book or anything like that. Couldn't have happened without

everybody else. I'm true. I'm not joking around. I'm truly, truly humbled beyond explanation.

I never, you know, I was shooting for it no doubt about it. If you're going to do it,

you want to be a New York Times bestseller. And I, you know, just to pull it off in the

first week, I'm kind of shocked. But I'm definitely humbled and incredibly grateful to

all of y'all here at ESPN and everybody out there, all the fans and everybody else. I'm

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