Stephen A. Smith Vows to Get Payback on Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal for Hairline Jokes

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The NBA playoffs are in full swing. which means we all get to have Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal and the rest of the fantastic NBA on TNT crew in our lives more prominently over the next few months.
While that’s fun for most viewers, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith might think differently about it after the jokes that were made about him during Tuesday night’s postgame show.
Barkley and Shaq had a lot of laughs comparing Celtics guard Derrick White to Smith because of their similar hairlines. The two basketball legends could barely hold it together while joking about how White also hosts ESPN’s First Take.
The fun stuff happens halfway through this video:
Smith reacted almost immediately:
Then he had some fun with it on ESPN’s morning show, Get Up:
We'll have to wait to see what he has in store for Barkley and Shaq.

Andy Nesbitt is the assistant managing editor of audience engagement at Sports Illustrated. He works closely with the Breaking and Trending News team to shape SI’s daily coverage across all sports. A 20-year veteran of the sports media business, he has worked for Fox Sports, For the Win, The Boston Globe and NBC Sports, having joined SI in February 2023. Nesbitt is a golf fanatic who desperately wants to see the Super Bowl played on a Saturday night.
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