Stephen A. Smith Vows to Get Payback on Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal for Hairline Jokes

The NBA playoffs are in full swing. which means we all get to have Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal and the rest of the fantastic NBA on TNT crew in our lives more prominently over the next few months. 

While that’s fun for most viewers, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith might think differently about it after the jokes that were made about him during Tuesday night’s postgame show.

Barkley and Shaq had a lot of laughs comparing Celtics guard Derrick White to Smith because of their similar hairlines. The two basketball legends could barely hold it together while joking about how White also hosts ESPN’s First Take. 

The fun stuff happens halfway through this video:

Charles Barkley and Shaq cracked up for minutes over Derrick White's hairline early Wednesday morning. "Stephen A. play for the Celtics! He do First Take in the morning and play for the Celtics, that dude's going to be tired!'" pic.twitter.com/c6Sg574LkN

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) April 19, 2023

Smith reacted almost immediately:

Love all of my brothers on @NBAonTNT. But I’m gonna get @SHAQ and Chuck for comparing me with Derrick White. Y’all are gonna pay for that ????????????

— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) April 19, 2023

Then he had some fun with it on ESPN’s morning show, Get Up:

Imma get y’all @SHAQ and Charles!

And I KNOW you aren’t talking @Foxworth24!! pic.twitter.com/Lp9adlW6h2

— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) April 19, 2023

We'll have to wait to see what he has in store for Barkley and Shaq.