Steven A Smith was born in the year 1967. He is a sports journalist, actor, a sports radio host and a television personality. Smith is the commentator at ESPN First Take where he works with Molly Qerim and Max Kellerman. He makes appearance at NBA analyst on the SportsCenter. He was a NBA analyst of ESPN at NBA Countdown and also on the NBA broadcast at ESPN.


Before, he was the host of The Stephen A Smith and Ryan Ruocco Show at ESPN Radio. He is now the host of The Stephen A. Smith Show at Chris Russo sports radio station, on Channel 82, SiriusXM Radio, Mad Dog Sports Radio. He is a featured columnist of ESPN.Com, ESPNNY.com and on The Philadelphia Inquirer.

From his biography, Steven A Smith was born in the city of Bronx area in the city of New York City in the year 1967. He grew up in Hollis section at Queens. Smith is a second child in the family of six children. He was born with four older sisters with young brother called Basil. He was born with a half brother on the side of the father. Her parents were born in Saint Thomas, in the U.S Virgin Islands and he was managing the hardware store. On her maternal grandmother, Smith is white but other grandparents are black. Smith finished at Thomas Edison High School found in Queens.

After finishing Fashion Institute of Technology in one year, he received the basketball scholarship and he attended Winston-Salem State University, the black university based in North Carolina. When he was in college, he was playing basketball under the Hall of Fame coach called Clarence Gaines. When he was still with this team, Smith was writing for a column at University Newspaper called The News Argus and he argued that Gaines has to retire because of health issue. He is member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity.

Steven A Smith started the career in the print media career when he was working at Winston-Salem Journal, New York Daily News and Greensboro News and Record. In 2005, Steven A Smith worked as a weekday noon up to 2pm at radio show at WEPN at New York City when he was a right hand man of Brandon Tierney. The radio show shifted to start at 2pm and to 4pm.

Steven A Smith started the television career at a now defunct cable network at CNN/SI during the year 1999. Steven A Smith likes to keep his personal life private and there is no record about having been married or having any wife before. He is different from Steven Smith who is known as a teamaker. There are also custom beanies with plush called Steven Smith stuffed animals. Her salary is between 3.1 to 3.5 million dollars. His net worth is 10 million dollars while his twitter account is @stephenasmith.

Last Modified: Apr 5, 2020


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