Stephen A. Smith recently said that Mat Ishbia was “about to be recognized as the worst owner” ever in NBA basketball, and the owner of the Suns is not happy with it. The manager even expects the ESPN analyst to apologize for what he said about him.
Mat believes that he will earn this apology when his team finally comes back on the right track and starts to succeed in the competition. “Stephen A. Smith, I don’t take much of what he says seriously,” he said at Thursday’s season conference. “I don’t think many people do that, to be honest with you.”
One of the comments that found the most owner of the Phoenix was how he compared him with former Los Angeles Clippers President Donald Sterling, a whose reputation is really remembered as one of the worst in the history of the competition. Ishbia does not appreciate it to him.
“He does his thing, he is on the microphone, and I think he will apologize with me because I think it is disrespectful to have my name aligned with someone who was kicked out of the competition or there was no part of more,” he said, the apology of Smith came the next day.
It all started earlier this week, when Stephen A. explained his position on the NBA career of the Suns Executive to date, so that the Arizona franchise was managed for a short time. “Mat Ishbia must understand that you are currently about to be recognized as the worst owner in the history of basketball,” said Smith.
He added: “That says a lot. That says a lot. Donald Sterling once had an NBA franchise. … That is the process, if you are Mat Ishbia, which you are now, are recognized as demonstrably the worst owner in the history of basketball.”
At the time, Ishbia first defends his work. “If he wants to say that the first two and a half years of Mat Ishbia bought the team, we didn’t win a championship, I think you could probably say that about almost every owner ever. But yes, we had high expectations, but we didn’t win,” he said.
