Blame LeBron James For Kyrie Irving Trade? Stephen A. Smith Says ‘Yes’

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Stephen A. Smith won’t allow LeBron James to go unchallenged when rewriting history. Hours after the Cleveland Cavaliers superstar called out his team for trading Kyrie Irving to the Boston Celtics, the ESPN “First Take” host said Thursday James actually deserves blame for the deal because the team treated the star point guard like “less than a superstar” and the NBA legend didn’t do enough to stop the deal from happening. “… He (James) did not want Kyrie Irving traded,” Smith said. “He told (Cavs owner) Dan Gilbert that. But what resonated to me was the word ‘superstar’ he used to describe Kyrie Irving. Because maybe if you were treating him like the superstar he was, he would not have wanted

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