Dwyane Wade Supports LeBron James Confronting Stephen A. Smith

Dwyane Wade is letting everybody know that he’s rocking with LeBron James in his beef with ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith. 

Wade told TMZ that he would have reacted the same way that James did.

“I love both guys,” Wade said.. “I had a conversation with Stephen A about it and I told him… I would have walked up on him the same way. This is all love and sports.”

During the New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers game on Thursday, March 6, LeBron got up from the bench and was visibly angry as he addressed Smith. On First Take on Friday, March 7, Smith revealed that James was upset over his numerous criticisms of Bronny’s game.

“He clearly took exception to some of the things that he heard me say and he confronted me about it,” he said when he first addressed the situation.

“That wasn’t a basketball player confronting me,” Smith said on Friday. “That was a parent, that was a father. I can’t sit here and be angry or feel slighted by LeBron James in any way in that regard.”

Appearing on Gil’s Arena podcast, Smith was much more aggressive with his stance.

. “I thought it was weak,” he said. “I thought it was some bullshit—but in the moment, I knew that I was listening to a father.” He also revealed that LeBron told him, “You gotta stop talking shit about my son.”

Smith is responding to James’ brief conversation with ESPN game analyst Richard Jefferson before the Lakers’ 111-101 loss to the Boston Celtics on Saturday, March 8.

 “Once he talks about, ‘I’m pleading with you as a father,’ I can’t,” James said.

According to Smith, if James had mentioned that, he would have responded differently.

“I thought that he misrepresented the argument, I was glad he did,” Smith added. “Because what he was really talking about, which was confirmed with his conversation with Richard Jefferson, is that I was talking about him as a father,” Smith said. “Had he said that to me, I wouldn’t have been thrown off. I would’ve came right back at him — ‘Yes I was, I was talking about you, you did this sh*t.”