Sam Smith: A lot of my colleagues, the media used it as a way to take shots at him, especially in the New York Times. I thought they used it a lot to say, well, this is his political philosophy, unlike these players today. And it was a lot different when LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, and Chris Paul were making these stands about, and it was fine. I’m glad they were doing it. But doing it in 2010 was a lot different than saying something like that in 1988 or something. That got sort of smoothed over, and I always felt Michael was made a victim, and that I wanted to clear that up, that that was a joke that had nothing to do with political philosophy, and that was a classic out-of-context gotcha. We don’t care what he meant, but it’s a good story, so we’re going to use it as a good story.
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