Stephen A Smith on Ben Simmons As long as First Take is in existence Ben Simmons will catch strays Im not apologizing to a damn soul There is no bigger thief in the history of the NBA than that man If Ben Simmons runs near a basketball arena he should be arrested

Stephen A Smith Nothing was made up The information that emanated about Zion Williamson yeah it came from inside the organization It came from people even closer than that to Zion Williamson somebody told me to go on air and point out how he got busted hiding food under his bed

Bill Simmons on Adam Silver This is the most important decision of his career

Voter Stephen A Smith on SGA The complaints are existing because he's making teams paythey're saying we have a hard time stopping him because he's that great could you help us out by not giving him more callswhich the ultimate sign of respecthe's busting everybody's ass that's why

Bill Simmons questions whether Giannis is still a top 5 player and doesnt think teams should trade all their assets for him He doesnt play Hes closer to Embiid than Jokic He doesn't play He gets hurt all the time He's hurt all the time I would be really scared about this

Bill Simmons Pod Is LeBron behind the push to shorten the season because he wants his records to stay intact

Bill Simmons on Luka Doni calling for fouls It's so bad that even LeBron is like wow