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Fox Sports Runs Fake ‘Ballsack Sports’ Headline: “Josh Smith Says LeBron James Wouldn’t Have Dominate His Era”

It seems like yesterday that we were watching a young, athletic, exciting prospect in Josh Smith fly through the air and electrify the Slam Dunk Contest. However, sadly and surprisingly those days are far behind him. Coming into the league with expectation and potential, Josh Smith’s fall from grace has been as dismal as we could have imagined.

After being selected 17th overall in the 2004 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks, Smith was projected as being a cornerstone for the franchise for many years to come, and after starting off promisingly, it went downhill from that point. Once Smith left Atlanta, he has bounced around the league, with stints in Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, and New Orleans, before leaving the league for good.

But since Smith was drafted one year after LeBron James, the following ‘fake-news’ report should have been viewed as ‘obviously fake’ from the get go. Twitter parody account Ballsack Sports

Former NBA player Josh Smith says LeBron wouldn’t be as dominant in his era pic.twitter.com/2Z3eeJblUL

— Ballsack Sports ®  (@BallsackSports) February 1, 2022

His era? Well, Fox Sports thought it was real and wanted to be among the first to have this clickbait-friendly news, so they just ran with it.

It has been deleted in the meantime, so here are some screenshots from when it was still live.

Screenshot Fox Sports