New York Daily News media critic Bob Raissman has decided he’s had enough of Stephen A. Smith’s diatribes against Kyrie Irving, not because he agrees with Irving’s position on vaccination. No, it’s because he believes Smith is obsessed with Irving and it would be better if he shifted his criticism to Nets ownership and management.
Smith, of course, has railed on Irving for weeks and weeks, complaining that Irving’s recent part-time status fits into a pattern of absences. Here’s one of Smith’s latest (in which he briefly mentions his own recent hospitalization with COVID) ...
Of course, the most vociferous exchanges have been between Smith and Jay Williams, who is among Irving’s most consistent advocates and who Smith has called an “apologist.