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TNT’s Kenny Smith doesn’t think he said anything wrong when he commentated this weekend’s 3-point shootout between WNBA star Sabrina Ionescu and Steph Curry.
On Saturday night, Ionescu narrowly lost 29-26 to Curry while both shot from the NBA 3-point line, but Ionescu was able to use a WNBA ball.
After the contest, Smith angered basketball fans when he said Ionescu should have shot from the women’s 3-point line.
“I think she should of shot from the women’s line, that would have been a fair contest, I still root for Sabrina, she should have shot from 3-point line that women shoot from”
“There’s a women’s tee in golf, and there’s a men’s tee for a reason”
On Monday, Smith appeared on the Stephen A. Smith show to defend himself by claiming people misunderstood what he was trying to say.
Via Awful Announcing
“I think it’s much ado about nothing, honestly,” Kenny Smith said “Most people who know basketball understood what I was talking about. Actually, I was advocating for her, more than anything else, because basketball is muscle memory. So he practices from one range, she practices from another.”
“There’s even a study … the guy who throws darts. And if you move him out even one step, his accuracy changes dramatically. So I’m like, ‘Why is (Curry) getting the advantage, to shoot at his line? That’s an advantages. It’s not gender, it’s not genetics.”