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A growing conversation over the past week has centered around the incident that occurred after the third quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers vs. New York Knicks matchup. Following the game, LeBron James approached ESPN "First Take" analyst Stephen A.

Dwyane Wade is weighing in on the battle between LeBron James and ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith. “I love both guys,” Wade, 43, told TMZ in a video published on Wednesday, March 12. “I had a conversation with Stephen A. about it and I told him if I was LeBron, I would have walked up on him the same way.”