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I've been getting cooked for my Zion takes for three years.

I've been saying this.

I've said that it was a crime that Zion could not come into camp into shape.

I feel like maybe I've done this segment 10 times, 12 times, 15.

I mean, if it's once, it's a thousand.

I think he should be accountable for the fact that he is not taking his job very seriously,

which clearly hampers his ability to do his

job and play well for an entire season in every meaningful game. And I have been murdered for it.

From Scrubs living two to a room in a broken down hobo flat to Richard Jefferson, I was

crucified for saying, Zion, this is your fault, that he needed to take

an accountability for not being prepared to play. Thank God, Stephen A. Smith is on the case as well.

He goes ham on Zion on Sunday. We talked about this on the show for Monday, saying that he was

fat. He saw his belly

bounce. He went on obviously to say on Monday that every chef in New Orleans favorite person

is Zion because he is down to eat the entire table. And guess what? Just like clockwork,

people come for Stephen A. Smith, just like they came for me, including people in Zion's camp.

Thankfully, they don't have my number. Guess what, though? We got Stephen A. Smith saying,

you know what? I'm going to double down. And this is what he has to say as a rejoinder.

Okay. His stepdad called me this morning, and we had a really, really good conversation.

So I'm going to reiterate what I said.

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