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Stephen A.'s epic rant on idea of Suns trading No. 1 pick for Kawhi Leonard | First Take | ESPN
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- Published on Mar 4, 2026
- Watch First Take's Stephen A. Smith's epic rant on why the Phoenix Suns should not trade for Kawhi Leonard.
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The sun's been rebuilding since forever now.
LBJFan 23 that would be the kings
Terrible coaching and development...
Been like 4 years...
The King Suns. Sun Kings lol 👑
Lol
Molly and Steven A goin throw hands across the desk one day
Validated Classified I know I was thinking that as well she always being loud and wrong.
Didn’t SAS have issues with Cari Champion too? These bitches just need to stfu
Hey Hayes 😂😂😂😂😂
I enjoy this role by SAS. So classic, great entertainment. He should join WWE with Max Keller against Skip n Shannon. lol
He means he's a heel.
Can Chris Broussard be the ref
mogtrader8 what about the shaq and javale McGee tag team.
Ayton will bust
“But here’s the thing, skip..”
Just legendary ranting. This guy is hilarious.
Damn SAS gave Molly the hand ✋🏾🤐
PhillyK1dd 😂😂😂😂
PhillyK1dd that's because she's the host. And it's not about her being a woman the host isn't supposed to talk too much.
Brandon Ninja in TNT they let Earnie Johnson have his comment
it's different with Earnie since he's their boss
bruh, did Max just say "Donkic" instead of Doncic
Dont let this distract you from the fact that this off season bout to be fire 🔥
Ayton plays at U AZ
They hired Doncic's coach
Bagley is from Phoenix
Idk who tf they gonna pick
😂
Hopfully aytom or bagley i dont like doncic only euro bigmen do good
Oscar Gomez lol, stand by this comment when he wins ROTY
Snow Angel ill say i was wrong if that happens but im just saying i feel his celling is batum but you never know
Oscar Gomez
I do think Luka, Booker, JJ, Warren would be a nasty 1-4
At the beginning.....
Molly wanted to Stephen A. To look at me instead of being Pornhub😂😂
Can this guy ever express an opinion without yelling?
Craig Perkey guess not
CoolerKing37 Different last name, bro
Craig Perkey Can you ever listen without bitching?
Craig Perkey you damn right he's very irritating
If he didnt yell he wouldnt be Stephen A
Espn gotta stop with the clickbait titles .. exactly when did he " rant "
They call his normal talking, a rant...definite click bait
Suns about to become the 76ers
in 10 years 😂😂
xXKJ Xx 10yrs ago we were n the playoffs wtf is u talkn about nigga
TRUST THE CACTUS LMAO
Brando Williams nah fam chill out 😭😭😭😭💀💀💀
Booker already better than both Embiid and Simmons lol wtf you talking about.
LoLUnderstated What are you smoking
Devin booker would leave right after they trade that pick 😭😂
Let's be real here. Phoenix needs to trade that number one pick for Spencer Dinwiddie. #GOATWIDDIE
Benjamin Grunert he needs to stay with my nets
Yes he's our best player!
Angel Diaz totally is... I say we trade DeAngelo and Lin for a young small forward because Carrol is getting old
Or the Fro Sho my boy boy Jonathan Allen
I used to kill people with dinwiddie in 2k a few years ago when he was like a 60 overall lol. crazy how he's so good now
Word Search's > Crossword Puzzles
SAS said “chil please” 😂😭😆
Damn.. Where isn't kawhi going.. Every team getting kawhi now…
Max changes his stance on pretty much every argument.
If I’m the spurs take it and run😂
Elijah Rodriguez add in Booker with the 1st and its a deal
Ayton sounding like Okafor right now
Suns don't have interest in trading for Kawhi, as they say at the beginning. Non story, pointless topic.
Jonathan Jackson these shows are always full of pointless topics, otherwise they'd have nothing to talk about. It's all mindless rubbish
“I HAVE A QUESTION”
Can we get rid of Molly yet???
MoeTV I’ve been pleading for months too 😭
She's eye candy
she starting to get annoying and needs to stay in her lane, plus she going down hill quick lol
Glorious_Dominator16 there are cuter girls. Niggas on RUclips slobbering over her are just thirsty asf
nick jones Yeah especially dudes who think Rachel Nicole's is all that.
This qould homestly be hilarious and great
Molly needs to stay in her lane
Stephen A Smith hit Molly with a "you can't. teach. that" lol 😂😂😂
Is the 3-6 mafia here
Elijah Rodriguez Lebron fuck you bitch?
King Wani This joke is getting old real quick
M-M-MAFIA!!
Elijah Rodriguez L immigrant
Elijah Rodriguez Atlease he took it like a man unlike some people. Who tried to get ejected out of the game cuz they didn't want to face giannis.
Wait did ayton and makkerun(the bulls rookie) play together in college ?
Max flipflopman
Max is being defiant, how are you ever really able to tell who will be a Hall of Famer? Such a dumb point. Deandre ayton is definitely a Powerhouse and he will only get better, I'm not giving him up for Kawhi Leonard
Molly just says thing without even knowing what she's talking about.
rip xxx
Molly is in a tough place. She feels the need to be all assertive and authoritative, woman power, etc, and not just a pretty face, but her grasp of the topics doesn't measure up to those 2 guys (even though they're not exactly experts themselves).
Lol they be ignoring molly, funny asf
Why is Molly even on the show?
to annoy ya'll :p
Why is max on this show is the real question? this guy has no clue what he talking about they need to take him off.
Keith Turner why is Stephen on the show? He is a blow hard, his opinion blows with the wind , doesn't know how to talk only yell.
Get rid of both of them then.😄😄😄😄😄
Keith Turner Yes! He ruins the show and he’s an idiot
My man SAS said “ H*** No!” Lol
To be fair, Phoenix and San Antonio are both deserts. And Phoenix has the best medical staff in the league.
“That was before the tournament” 😂
Phoenix Suns Rise Up #1 Deandre Ayton
I have a question !!!!
Kawhi , Bron, Pg 🔥🔥🔥
This draft is stacked!
Even if kawhi was from Phoenix and wanted to play there, you draft ayton and sign kawhi next year without losing anything.
Now why would they do that 😂
Molly trying to get involved lol just be quiet and look pretty please
dadondutta y’all are mean to Molly lmaoooo
Them Molly Qerim burner accounts gonna start lighting people up soon
DAMN!
I thought it was a baby whining for a sec....
Damn, I just don’t get some people.
Sas needs to be the new gm of wwe smackdown or monday night raw lol
I don’t care what people say Shaq (Prime Shaq) would dominate any era there just wasn’t any way of stopping him. He was scary good!
DLO BROWN Most dominant player I've ever seen
Yup he would be he would still be a liability on defense. Whoever offense on shaq in the P&R
Phx was a top 10 contender when Steve Nash was relevant b4 he got traded to mavs with Dirk
Um he played for the mavs b4 phx
Dirk played for the Lakers 😂😂
Plug Marvin no, he was drafted by the suns, but wasn't black so did not play.
Ik bru i was trying to troll lol
Rip x
Molly 🤤😍
She ugly and wrong and got called out...like always
I read the title without the word “idea” and lost my mind 😱 thank god this ain’t happening
They aren’t trading it. This rumour came from speculation. Everyone calm down
“Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on... I HAVE A QUESTION!!!” 😂😂😂
BRUH
They’re gonna have to pay a lot if they wanna keep him. Agree with SAS
These dudes are seriously sleeping on Doncic. On any European draftee for that matter.
HemTY Sounds yeah like Alex Len and Bender worked out for the Suns
HemTY Sounds he gonna fail
Can't even pronounce his name right smh
HemTY Sounds that whiteboy a bust
A bust without having played an NBA game? Yeah, alright idiot.
"NOBODY CAAAAAARES ABOUT YOU RIGHT NOW!!" 😭😭😭😭😭
why would suns trade number 1 pick when they can draft liangelo ball the next goat with it
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R.I.P. XXX
Lebron 3-6
william hardenbergh what does Lebron have to do with this 😂😂😂
Kwame Brown > Kobe Bryant
king wani nothing i just had to throw shots at him
william hardenbergh Greg Oden > Kevin durchoke
😂😂😂
Molly we respect you and your insight on multiple topics especially when it comes to race but PLEASE, when other people who the show is MADE around speck just be quiet. Wait for the discussion to finish and before you go to the next topic THEN add your opinion. Your the moderator. Cari was much better as well. if Espn likes what molly brings give her own show. Max and Stephen A cant even get their thoughts together half the time man. look how joy just sits there looking cute and nods like shes supposed to. u can just tell who had better house training. she understands that shes not paid to express her opinions and she has her own show to do just that.... like come on. i can barly watch this anymore.
0 Respect bruh.
0 "better house training"... LMAO 😂
My man... You can't talk about house training when you're misspelling 5 letter words...
Who said i had any house training friend.....? diddnt know guys needed that Cpn Save Em. *blank stare*
0 ahh my apologies for the late response. Seeing as you said in your comment "u can just tell who has the better house training" I assumed that by "u" you meant the average person, and seeing as the average person has average house training I assumed you were one of those average people. Which was why I chastised you for your hypocrisy! Seeing now as you have said you lack average house training, I apologize. However, if that *is* the case, I wonder why you spoke for people with average house training knowing well you were not one of those people as you mentioned in your response.
Sorry for the articulate bullshitery, I just read the extraordinary adventures of Arsené Lupin, so I currently feel like growing a handlebar mustache and getting into a bar fight but one last thing if you could pardon my literary over-exertion and one last rebuttal; in case you think of answering me by saying something to the effect of " I never said I had no house training, I just asked who said I had any to begin with" I'd like to point out that if you *did* have any house training, you wouldn't have answered me in that fashion.
*Real me* sorry I know I'm being a presumptuous dick I just can't help it after reading the book. Kind of like how when you were a kid when your favourite movie ended you would try to be the protagonist😆😆
it's all going to be players coming out better
JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY THE ONLY TRUE..
He already came the second time brother. Heavenly mother is her
I love this show
Who the hell wanna go to the suns 😂😂😂
Ayton does
Brock Brown /The O.D. That's cause he from Arizona. Phoenix too damn hot. Fuck that.
Mari E It’s not that bad nigga lol
5:22 molly nobody’s talking to you
suns should get doncic
Никола .Бакърджиев Doncic and then sign Capela or Aaron Gordon
For real, drafting Ayton would be a mistake, centers aren't that dominant anymore. Even Bamba would be better, his basketball IQ and wingspan are off the charts.
He's a bust
José Francisco Embiid/Towns/AD/Porzingas/Boogie/ Jokic all of these centers are pretty dominant.....4 of the lottery picks are bigs
Ayton would be a bust if the suns draft him
Suns screwed up years ago trading good players for trash players and now they are trying to rebuild everything they had years ago
Michael Jordan>LeBron James
Webbster > everybody else
Completely irrelevant to the video
Always finding a way to bring LeBron in the topic smh
What does bron have to do with this 😂😂
Webbster w
Steven A is a damn savage... 😂😂 i love this man! esp after the jr smith oops. 💯
Kawhi Leonard is not top 50 of all time didnt top 20ppg till last 2 years. Max making Kawhi look like second coming of Jesus. At most 5th best player in the league.
Michael Agbortabot right
I'm a spurs fan. They gotta trade him. Right now he's right behind Durant and LeBron so he is good he just hasnt been elite very long that's why people don't feel he is that good. The idea of him not being top 5 is a bit crazy
However I wouldn't trade for him no matter what because he has shown when he is not committed he is willing to sit and wait instead of playing like he is paid to do. I would never want a player like that on my team no matter how good he is. I'll take a bad motivated and commited player over someone with Leonard's behavior
ulbio quijije I’m picking Anthony Davis over kawhi any day PG13 is arguably more talented than kawhi but he just doesn’t have the mental focus and sometimes aggressions also he wasn’t as fortunate being uprooted in san an Antonio and even though kawhi better I think cp3 is a more valuable player than kawhi
steven whiters I would also take Davis over Leonard despite his long injury history he always seems to get hurt when the
Pelicans need him most with the exception of last season. As far as pg, he is in a different and lower tier of small forwards plus he just isn't as clutch and polished.i do agree that pop was a big factor in that. I just hope we get a good return on that trade
Ayton doesn't play above the rim though...idk if he's a slam dunk superstar.
Maybe the Sun's are being smart THINK ABOUT THIS? Sun's get Kawhi then trade him to LA for Ball, Ingram or Kuz any 2 of those 3 is a 2 for 1 for Phoenix
Spartan Realah why TF would LA Trade for him when they can just tank until free agency
You're being smart, the jury is still out on Phoenix
Stan Flacko I said 2of those 3 any combination with 2of the 3 is smart if you are the Sun's or any team that think a combination of 2of the 3young players on LA is better than what you have
It’s called a three team trade.....
Yayo Gang, If the Lakers get Lebron, they will probably need to clear some cap room to sign Kawhi.. There's just one reason they're looking to trade.. Apparently you don't know the complexities of roster management.
I just want to say that dragon bender is the suns starting center but when really hes a pf or sf
KD >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Lebron
Uh no, KD would not be able to carry bunch of scrubs to the playoffs like Lebron...KD just wants to ride the GSW curtails
lol why he gotta do phoenix like that hahahah
Don't let this boring topic distract you from GS blowing a 3-1 lead and proceeding to call Durcan't (Dursnake) crying to join and help them handle Legoat, in what will be remembered as the weakest move and team in history of professional sports.
Shay Bingo
Youre still salty your daddy got swept 😂😂
Shay well they didn't get kd just for LeBron it's for the whole league so I worked out pretty well for the warriors and KD
Do not forget Lebron put together a superteam first and lost to Dallas that year.....Also don't forget Durant did what Lebron did but better...lol now yall mad
Because winning back to back chip as a team, and back to back Finals MVP for Durant, is something always associated with “weak moves.” Stop being a Bron fanboy and please recognize that you’re being childish and obviously ButtHurt about GS crippling Brian’s legacy. GS is just proof that an excellent team beats an all time great player every time.
Will Molly get out a statement without being interrupted.
Magic Johnson >LeBron James
Webbster put down the crack pipe... y'all always bring LeBron into the topic Goddamn
L
Kwame Brown > Kobe Bryant
Lmao
Stfu
San Ant arent going to settle for picks
When is Molly just going to learn her place as a Moderator and let Stephen A and Max do the debating
“He ain’t ?” I thought you said you were articulate and strong verbal pronunciation 🤯💯😭
Max is an alien just confirmed - the green glow!!!
Every time I hear Max’s voice, it grates into my soul and destroys my life
She straight up said were not interested what more does he want
Stephen a and max should just fight and get it over with, id pay good money to see that lol!
Steven a smith drinks redbull he be hyped
or trade for a PF and one name i really like is tobias harris, that offense with booker, ayton, and harris could be scary
Molly though 😍❤️
“I HAVE A QUUUESTIONN!!!”
Love u molly, wish Jalen
Stephen A bringing back 2012 vibes lol epic rants on the nba everyday
This the first time that The Suns have been in the news for more then a month
Oh Max Kellerman...SAS got you good...lol
Ayton isn't from the area. He's from the 242!!
Smart for Phoenix don't let ppl count you out..
Molly be getting dogged my smith 😂😂
This man’s Vocal cords must be from another planet. He is always screaming through out the entire show.
Why SAS always gotta be yelling?