While the are busy trying to figure out who will be their next basketball coach in the aftermath of , LeBron James has decided to hop into the podcast game. Earlier this year, James started the “Mind the Game” podcast with ESPN analyst JJ Redick, and the show has received praise for its high-level approach to talking about ball. Of course, to earn the Lakers head coaching position, which opened up after the team decided to fire .
And apparently, the fact that James started a podcast with someone who is now in the running to replace Ham while he was on the hot seat during the season has rubbed some people in the coaching world the wrong way, according to Stephen A. Smith on Monday’s episode of . "Numerous coaches, Black coaches called me expressing how they took issue with that podcast taking place.
" – Stephen A. Smith on the timing of LeBron James-JJ Redick podcast. — Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) “Numerous coaches, Black coaches, called me expressing how they took issue with that podcast taking place,” Smith said about Mind The Game, and went as far as to say there were coaches who felt “very salty about that.
” Molly Qerim interjected and asked a specific question: Was the frustration over this pod because James did the podcast with “a white guy,” or was it because of what this did to Darvin Ham? “Cause it hurt Darvin Ham, cause it hurt Darvin Ham,” Smith clarified. “So, any of us would do a podcast with LeBron James. Anybody who says otherw.
