Stephen A Smith has reached breaking point with ESPN
Are we seeing the collapse of ESPN in our fingertips right now? Maybe? Maybe not. Longtime ESPN anchor Stephen A Smith has now reached his breaking point with his longtime company. Read more to find out what’s happening with Smith and ESPN. Via New York Post.
“The tipping point for the first time arrived this year,” Smith told The Ringer’s Bill Simmons on his podcast Wednesday. “I’m not one of those guys, Bill, where it’s ‘SportsCenter,’ it’s ‘[NBA] Countdown,’ it’s ‘First Take’ — that doesn’t phase me at all. I can do those things and it’s not a problem. It’s the time in between.”
As most people dislike, Smith has a lingering hate for long workdays. The fiery anchor would later complain on The Ringer with Bill Simmons on Wednesday.
“You’re sitting around for like four or five hours to do three minutes of television after you were all on television all morning and start of the afternoon,” Smith said. “That was too much. And for the first time in my career, I went to the bosses and I was like, ‘Yo, I can’t do this. Not this.’
Busy days haven’t only affected Smith at the workplace, but also at home. With those busy days, Smith is unable to give full attention to his daughters.
“You know my daughters jumped all up in me and they were like, wait a minute now,” he said. “‘Where you at? We usually go out to dinner, you know? Where you been? What about our movie dates?’”
In all of chaos, Smith has decided to take some time for himself in the upcoming NBA season.
“When you’re working at ESPN, and you didn’t pull a Bill Simmons where you accomplished multiple streams of revenue, and you’re innovative and creative enough so you’re not dependent on one employer, at that point, I was dependent on one employer,” he said. “There is not one single day that goes by where I don’t remember when I was unemployed, and everyone was writing [me off] and saying I was finished. I will never forget that feeling, and that’s part of the reason why I work. I work like I’m broke.”
Is Stephen A Smith out at ESPN? Or will the company keep the electric sports anchor in all of its chaos? Let us know in the comments.
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