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Stephen A Smith saw three White Lakers and exposed a glaring liberal double standard

The best players in the NBA didn't get there because of their race. They got there because they outworked everybody else

By Corey Brooks Fox News

Published July 7, 2026 10:00am EDT

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Sometimes I like what television personality, podcast host and sports analyst Stephen A. Smith has to say. Other times, I just shake my head and ask, "What?" This is one of those times.

The man recently looked at the Los Angeles Lakers’ roster in the post-LeBron James era and saw that its top three players are White. He decided that their skin color was newsworthy. "This ain't golf," he said. "This ain't baseball. It ain't even soccer." He spoke as if basketball has some sort of pigmentation requirement for getting on the court. He acted as if the gatekeepers messed up by letting three White dudes onto the court.

Let’s call this what it is: racism. I’m not being anything but factual. This man looked at three other men and decided the most important thing about them was their skin color. This man also took it upon himself to decide that basketball belongs to Black people. If this isn’t racism, then what is it?

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All of this is absurd. Race is absurd. Under........

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