On Monday’s Get Up! Smith addressed the discussion surrounding what Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving and Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard have said. Irving was among the players on a Friday call that voiced concerns that headlines will start to focus on the games played and not on the fight to defeat systemic racism. Howard agreed with him: “Basketball, or entertainment period, isn’t needed at this moment, and will only be a distraction.” Here’s Smith, who said they sound “foolish.” “Racial oppression has existed (and) it’s going to exist after this summer, it’s going to exist next year, it’s going to exist the year after, a year from now, ten years from now, 20 years from now. Anybody in our society that thinks this thing is going to be completely eradicated is fooling themselves. You’re always going to have to deal with these things, so that is not an excuse not to show up to work to do your job. You can fight the fight while still showing up to work.”