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A month after Colin Kaepernick’s workout, Stephen A. Smith is now taking credit for helping out the controversial QB get a tryout with the league.
🚨 Stephen A. Smith says he and Jay-Z/Roc Nation were behind scenes getting @Kaepernick7 the NFL workout.
Smith says half the NFL owners were against it.
🎥: Matt_Barnes9’s IG… Matt says he will post the full video Thursday 🔥 pic.twitter.com/z4vc3gJ0CX
— Resist Programming 🛰 (@RzstProgramming) December 12, 2019
Smith’s former ESPN colleague Jemele Hill didn’t think Stephen A. should be inserting himself in the Kaepernick situation by helping him behind the scenes to get a workout.
Arguably ESPN’s most prominent talent admitting to help orchestrate a workout for Colin Kaepernick … yeah let me go back to minding my business. Guards! https://t.co/r5UNQwuDWI
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) December 12, 2019
Depends on if you consider yourself still a journalist or not https://t.co/KJWzQPhmjz
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) December 12, 2019
Stephen A. wasn’t happy with Jemele calling him out on Twitter and immediately fired back.
1) I have a name. 2) It’s your colleague & friend….whose known you for YEARS! 3) What I’ve said on many occasions on @FirstTake & ESPN Radio: that I was behind the scenes speaking to ppl in support of getting Kaepernick back into NFL. So what’s the problem now? Happy Holidays! https://t.co/rvLHQpSvJ6
— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) December 12, 2019
Jemele eventually backed off and said she would talk to Smith privately about the issue.
I’ll call you. Cause my initial tweet came from a very specific place. https://t.co/8l8Fy6q9hR
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) December 13, 2019