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"I didn’t want to have to address this. I wouldn’t have, either, had it not gone viral," Stephen Smith says of his confrontation with LeBron James

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First Take host Stephen Smith said he didn't want to talk about the confrontation with LeBron James .

The confrontation went viral March 6 .

The ESPN host said LeBron James "confronted" him about his son Bronny James .

He said in January that LeBron 's son "is in the NBA because of his dad".

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63

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62

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50

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informal

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English

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28

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not offensive

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not hateful

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detected

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not detected

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short-lived

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