Serena Williams at Kendrick’s Tremendous Bowl Display: Stephen A. Smith Reacts

One of the vital greatest moments of Kendrick Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl LIX Halftime efficiency on Sunday night time (Feb. 9) was once when he referred to as on his fellow Compton, Calif., local Serena Williams to crip stroll onstage all over “No longer Like Us.”

Whilst many enthusiasts on-line cherished the wonder cameo, Stephen A. Smith weighed in together with his personal take, taking goal at Williams’ husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. “If I’m your husband, I’m pondering, ‘Why are you up there trolling him, trolling your ex?’” the sports activities analyst started all over his First Take podcast on Feb. 10. “If I’m married, and my spouse goes to troll her ex, return to his a–. As a result of obviously you don’t belong with me. What you nervous about him for, and also you with me? Bye!”

For context, Drake and Williams reportedly dated in 2015, and the rapper printed that he wrote his 2016 hit “Too Just right” concerning the athlete. The tennis champion’s look all over the efficiency was once extensively imagined to be a dig at Drake — the well-known topic of Lamar’s “No longer Like Us” diss observe. In 2022, Drake fired photographs at Ohanian, rapping on “Center of the Ocean”: “Sidebar, Serena, your husband a groupie/ He declare we don’t were given an issue however no, boo, it’s such as you comin’ for sushi/ We may pop up on ’em at will like Suzuki.”

Co-host Ryan Clark then chimed in, including, “Should you with Serena Williams, you’re going to be a saved guy anyway — don’t get started that, you ain’t gonna run the home.”

Shannon Sharpe additionally added in protection of Ohanian, “I believe he’s doing beautiful neatly. He based Reddit after which he offered Reddit for a large chew of alternate. I believe he OK.”

Ohanian ended up responding to Smith’s ideas on X. The entrepreneur, who was once in attendance on the Tremendous Bowl in New Orleans, responded to a tweet from the New York Publish about Smith’s feedback. “I were given you @stephenasmith,” he wrote, linking to the foundation in the back of Williams’ crip stroll, which was once the backlash she won for the dance at Wimbleton greater than a decade in the past and the way the verdict is “larger than the track.”

“I do know I must know higher, however I proceed to be stunned via complete the spectrum of genius and stupidity in humanity,” Ohanian concluded.

See his responses beneath.