Stephen A. Smith’s notoriety comes in handy for his nephew Josh to pick up women, he revealed on his uncle’s self-titled show.
On Monday, Josh appeared on the Stephen A. Smith Show and gave viewers talking points, claiming he was the ‘Bronny James of media,’ due to Smith’s success.
After dreadfully introducing his nephew, the ESPN star was shocked when Josh admitted using his name to get dates.
‘So what you were saying is forget about good looks, forget about smooth-talking, forget about, you know, just ingratiating yourself with a honey and making her feel good and all,’ Smith said.
‘No what you were like, ‘I’m Stephen A’s nephew’ and that’s what it did?’ He asked Josh to follow up.
‘You know, I see, like I said, you flourishing,’ Josh responded. ‘I’m like, he’s basically flourishing for me. So what I would do was some people didn’t believe it, like Stephen A. what, and I just call you,
Stephen A. Smith’s nephew, Josh, admitted using his uncle’s name to get dates with women
‘You never pick up, but your voicemail proved that it was you and that usually helped close the show for me,’ he added.
The camera then captured the disappointed look on Smith’s face before Josh continued to add fuel to the fire.
‘Is this on TV,’ he asked, to which Smith said yes. ‘We can edit, right? Griff, you going to edit that?’
‘It’s a Smith thing, I ain’t going to tell your business,’ he added before his uncle turned his tone up after palming his face.
‘Don’t put the Smith name on blast like that,’ Smith exclaimed. ‘First of all, grandma would have killed me. My sisters would have killed me, stop it. This is you. You one of one.
‘None of us were like this,’ he continued, jokingly. ‘We didn’t have bad, vicious, insidious intentions that you had.’
‘Because ya’ll wasn’t rich too,’ Josh responded. ‘Once you rich too, with the natural thing that we got, then you got trouble.’
Earlier in December, The Athletic reported that ESPN and the First Take host are negotiating a six-year deal worth $120million. The deal would make Smith overshadow his colleagues by a large margin pay-wise.
Smith is currently making $12m a year at the world leader in sports, the annual pay is split between his salary ($8m) and his production company ($4m).