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ESPN star Stephen A. Smith fired back against Charles Barkley over the warning that the Basketball Hall of Famer gave to the sports personality of being overexposed in the media.
Smith prefaced his remarks on his podcast by saying that he had a respect and appreciation of Barkley, which suggested that the two were very close.
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Stephen A. Smith at ESPN NBA COUNTDOWN LIVE SET ON INTUIT DOME. (Kirby Lee-Preferred Pictures)
“It’s my guy, but that doesn’t mean I always agree with him. And that doesn’t mean I’m devoid of the right to call him a flaming hypocrite when called,” Smith said at “The Stephen A. Smith Show.” “Do you know how many advertisements Charles Barkley is doing a year? He tells us two. Have you seen Charles Barkley in two commercials? Do you go to me? Oh, by the way, the cat that you work with at least twice a week in the NBA season is Shaquille O’Neal.
“Can we count the amount of endorsements he has? How often has he seen everywhere? What new product he is throwing? You said it about him? No, you didn’t. But when it comes to me I have to be ‘careful.'”
Smith would come to the “heart of the case.”
“And this is not aimed at Charles Barkley. This is aimed at all people out there-I make people out there-I make people very unpleasant and I don’t give S —,” Smith said. “You can talk about people not taking me seriously all you want, we get to see because I’m a serious brotha. It doesn’t mean I don’t know how I laugh and smile and have fun, you know who the hell I am.”
Barkley made his comments during a performance on Outkick’s “Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich.”
The former Philadelphia 76ers star said he would not vote for Smith for President until he warned Smith that people could get “sick” by him.
Charles Barkley participates in the Redmont Challenge with Charles Barkley at Puttshack Atlanta on April 8, 2022 in Atlanta. (Prince Williams/WireImage)
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“I was in the studio last night and I saw that he would be on ‘Law & Order’ tonight. I mean he’s already at ‘General Hospital’, he’s already at ‘General Hospital’, now he wants to be on ‘Law & Order’ tonight and I was just laughing. I was like ‘yo man, you’re starting to be too much right now,’ Barkley said.
“As if you want to be on CNN, you will be on ‘Fox & Friends’, now at ‘General Hospital’, now you’re on ‘Law & Order’, I like ‘Yo man, turn it off. Stop being on every TV show’ because people at some point get sick of you and you want to be like, ‘yes, I probably did too much.’ But once you’ve done too much, it’s too late and people don’t take you seriously and I think he has to be careful in this aspect.
Barkley said he wants to be on TV less and less because “less is more.”
“My friends close to me give me a lot of credit and I don’t blow my own horn, I want to be on TV as less as possible, to be honest with you Dan. That’s why I only do a few commercials a year. I’m not going to a lot of shows, less is more because the more you do, the less people take you to take you seriously. that bark said.
Stephen A. Smith at Disney 2024 in advance presentation held in the North Javits Center on May 14, 2024 in New York City. (Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Images)
“I’ve been arguing with my agent, he said we could do five-seven commercials a year, I said we are going to do two commercials a year, that’s it. I don’t want to be on TV all the time. I get sick of seeing myself do March Madness, but I don’t want to be on TV all the time and I don’t do a bunch of tv Stuff because I don’t want to – People Get Sick of You, That’s My Number One Thing.
