Stephen A. Smith names the ‘worst prediction of his career’

When the Minnesota Timberwolves went up 2-0 on the defending NBA champs, the Denver Nuggets, everyone, including Stephen A. Smith, thought the series was over.

Last week, he was convinced that the Timberwolves would win the series and the NBA championship; boy, was he wrong.

After the Nuggets defeated Minnesota Tuesday night to take a 3-2 series lead, Stephen A. changed his tune about the T-Wolves.

“I sit before yall a very humbled individual, throughout the years I’ve made my share of predictions, I’ve been wrong sometimes, I’ve been right a hell of a lot more than I’ve been wrong but I’ve been wrong in very conspicuously and flagrantly embarrassing fashion,” he says. “Right now, the Minnesota Timberwolves have me looking like I have made the worst prediction in the history of my career.”

Despite Kendrick Perkins’s claim that the series will go seven and that the T-Wolves will find a way to pull it out, Stephen A. was not buying it.

“I sit here today. I not only owe an apology to the organization of the Denver Nuggets but also to the champions that they are,” he continued.

He apologized to the Nuggets players and coaches for not believing in them. He called out the T-Wolves, especially Rudy Gobert, who is “getting his *ss kicked and embarrassed” by Nickola Jovic.

“They do look defeated, humbled. I don’t believe in the rest of them anymore. Minnesota just looks defeated,” he said.

We will see if the T-Wolves will have enough in the tank to take the Nuggets to game seven, but they gotta win game six at home first.

{First Take}