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Stephen A. Smith, the star of First Take, also had a book,

New York Times bestseller, Straight Shooter,

a memoir of a second chances and first take.

Stephen A, joining us on the program.

Good to have you on.

The legend.

It's been a long time, buddy.

How you doing?

I'm doing great.

Where would your shot rank among ESPN personalities?

If we just had a shooting contest.

A shooting contest.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think we- really dodging that question, Dan. You hit him in a sensitive area. Once again, yeah. Turn the tables on him. Ask a tough question. Yes, Paul. I'm surprised. Stephen's not afraid to shoot, not afraid to talk about a shot. Well, okay. We'll see if we can get him back. Dang. Yeah. Now, I know he played a little bit, and I remember we were, I think, in Boston, and he was shooting. He was out there on the court. I mean, look. I like my chances. But you're taking guys like JJ Redick off the bill. Oh, yeah, I have to take the pros out of there. Yeah, absolutely. But there's a few of those professionals there. Redick would beat everybody there. Right. Because he could still be playing. I remember. You got me? We got you now. I'm back. You're back. I'm sorry. I don't know what happened. Okay. I apologize. Okay. So I thought you were ducking the question, but no. Okay. All right. So let me take the pros out of here, J.J. Reddick and some of those guys. Where would you rank the ESPN power rankings of great shooters? Where would I rank myself or you? Oh, no. You don't have to rank me. I know where I am.

Okay, I'm saying I'm number one. I'm going to say I'm number one. I'm going to say I'm number one.

Okay. I'm going to say I'm number one. Okay. You think you're the best shooter in the building? Yes, I do. I have no proof of this, no evidence of whatsoever. But until further notice, I'm going to stick with that point. Okay. Absolutely. Okay. All right. So I'm not surprised that you have that confidence, but there might be a couple of guys in the building that would reach out to me after this is over. I haven't seen them, so that's the whole point. Until further evidence, I'm going with me.

I'm going with me. Your first impressions of the tournament?

Well, listen, I think that Yukon is clearly number one. No doubt about that. I've been more

excited by the women's than the men's, to be quite honest with you. But I've looked at Yukon. I've seen a couple of their games this year, particularly against Marquette. I saw them in the Big East tournament. You see what they bring to the table and what have you. You can't ignore them. They're the rainy defending national champions is what they bring to the table. I like Arizona a lot, though I got to pay attention to them. There's some surprises that can sneak in or what have you. But I'm thinking Yukon, and that's where I'm going with the men's right now. Even though I watched North Carolina, I was really high in them until they lost the NC State in the ACC title game. I didn't think they would lose that game, but they ended up losing that game. I thought Pittsburgh would do a better showing as well.

I didn't see that happen.

So I got to pay attention to that.

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