“Dereliction Of Duty”: Stephen A Smith Offers No Filter Over Attendance Controversy Surrounding Atlanta Dream’s WNBA Finals

A team reaching the WNBA Finals should be celebrating the chance to bring Finals basketball to its home crowd. Instead, the Atlanta Dream found themselves caught in a venue dispute, with questions emerging about whether the biggest games of their season could accommodate the fans eagerly awaiting to watch them. For Stephen A. Smith, the situation was difficult to accept. “Congratulations, you got an arena,” he said during an episode of The Stephen A. Smith Show . “Let’s think about that sentence that I just dropped down on you.